Re: MIPS - 64bit woes

[Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>]

Jim Gifford wrote:
> I've been working on getting the RaQ2 to work with the current 2.6.14 
> kernel, but no luck at all. The last success I had was with 2.6.12.x 
> series.
> 
> I'm looking for ideas, patches or whatever to get this working again. I 
> know it has to do with the kernel using 32bit addressing instead of 64 
> bit, but have no clue where to start.
> 
> Here is what I get when I attempt to boot it.
> 
>  > nfs 172.16.0.1 /nfsroot boot/vmlinux-2.6.14.gz
> nfs: mounted "/nfsroot"
> nfs: lookup "boot"
> nfs: lookup "vmlinux-2.6.14.gz"
> nfs: mode <0100755>
> 1349KB loaded (899KB/sec)
> 001512e8 1381096t
> nfs: unmounted "/nfsroot"
>  > execute root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=172.16.0.1:/nfsroot 
> console=ttyS0,115200 ip=dhcp
> elf64: 00080000 - 003b901f (ffffffff.80357000) (ffffffff.80000000)
> elf64: ffffffff.80080000 (80080000) 3170438t + 208794t
> net: interface down
> 
> Thanx for all your assistance.

Hmm, I'm unable to boot a 64bit kernel on either IP27 or IP30 here.  Appears to 
die very early in the kernel code.  It looks like your kernel also dies before 
doing anything meaningful, so I wonder if this is some common thing.


--Kumba

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