From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:39:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from bender.bawue.de ([193.7.176.20]:30394 "EHLO bender.bawue.de") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20038524AbWIARjC (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:39:02 +0100 Received: from lagash (mipsfw.mips-uk.com [194.74.144.146]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bender.bawue.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0812C46590; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 19:39:21 +0200 (MEST) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GJCxO-00067I-9x; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:37:30 +0100 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:37:30 +0100 To: Jonathan Day Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Broadcom SB1 query Message-ID: <20060901173730.GC4893@networkno.de> References: <20060901163839.49311.qmail@web31504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060901163839.49311.qmail@web31504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Thiemo Seufer Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 12500 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ths@networkno.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Jonathan Day wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone verify that the current kernel in > linux-mips git archive will work on a Broadcom 1250 > (SB1), specifically the "Swarm" or the "Sentosa" > flavours of the BCM91250. A 2.6.18-rc4 from a one week old git checkout works fine on a SWARM here, booted via tftp. The same kernel fails to boot on another SWARM board from the onboard IDE, I guess the swarm-ide is currently broken. > I have not been able to get anything more recent than > a 2.6.17 kernel to compile and boot, the 2.6.18-rc > kernels seem to randomly either lock up or reboot very > early on in the kernel initialization. However, I am > undecided whether it's a kernel issue, I presume you know that PCI devices and more than 1 GB of RAM don't work under Linux. > a hardware > issue (we've had nothing but trouble from these > boards) or a toolchain issue (versions: gcc 4.1.1, > libc 2.4, binutils 2.17.50) as I've found a few large > projects that should compile just fine are blowing the > compiler up. Hm, libc 2.4 means NPTL, that's not yet widely deployed and could well account for some exciting failures. > If someone can post (or e-mail me direct) on what the > latest combination of kernel and toolchain that works > on the Swarm is, I would greatly appreciate it. This > problem is driving me nuts. (Ok, more nuts than > usual.) Current Debian unstable works for me. Thiemo