From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:52:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 202-47-55-78.adsl.gil.com.au ([202.47.55.78]:62692 "EHLO longlandclan.hopto.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133714AbVLJLwP (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2005 11:52:15 +0000 Received: (qmail 1026 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2005 21:51:22 +1000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.251?) (10.0.0.251) by 192.168.5.1 with SMTP; 10 Dec 2005 21:51:22 +1000 Message-ID: <439AC10C.7060308@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:50:36 +1000 From: Stuart Longland Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051029) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pf@net.alphadv.de CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: SGI IP28 Kernels... anyone had any luck lately? References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 OpenPGP: id=63264AB9; url=http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter/gpgkey.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig398EF8F0A927FFF921AD8C44" 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: 9653 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: redhatter@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig398EF8F0A927FFF921AD8C44 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, peter fuerst wrote: > sorry, obviously forgot to "tar" with the "-h" option. The kernel patch-set > is now repackaged with README and .config (same location). I wonder, why no > one noticed their missing since Oct 17... Heh, I wondered that myself... Anyways, it's fixed now. :-) > For exactness' sake: the patches are based on linux-2.6.14-rc2-mipscvs-20050925 > Maybe .config will enable compiling, the error-messages seem to point > to a misconfiguration, since the compiler didn't touch any of the patched > files yet. I did try using the linux-2.6.14-rc2 tag out of git (repository as of 20051204; I didn't bother going to bleeding edge), but found I got the same errors. The problems disappeared, however, when I tried 2.6.14-rc1... this seems to work just fine. > indigo ~ # uname -a > Linux indigo 2.6.14-rc1-ip28 #4 Sat Dec 10 18:26:46 EST 2005 mips64 R10000 V2.5 FPU V0.0 SGI Indigo2 GNU/Linux > indigo ~ # uptime > 21:49:13 up 3:21, 3 users, load average: 2.63, 1.38, 0.71 The only glitch I've hit so far, is that booting via the local framebuffer (okay, I know it isn't a true "framebuffer") causes a fatal oops. However, if I specify console=ttyS0,9600, I see a flashing cursor on the framebuffer, and the bootup proceeds to completion on the serial console. Which is good news... it wasn't long ago when I recall merely sneezing in front of the machine was enough to send it spiralling into a fatal oops. > There's still a problem with the Xserver: often, when starting up the Xserver > first after a cold boot, it likes to hang (in a loop, waiting for "dmabusy" > to settle down, either in the kernel-driver or the Xserver itself, when > re-mmapping the dma-buffer). Usually, after a reset the Xserver works okay. > I couldn't find a solution for this yet, but otherwise (;-) i easily (can) use > the machine for regular work (no more hangs after the Xserver started up once). As I say... this Linux port has really bounded ahead in the time I've had this IP28 of mine... considering the hardware issues that have to be worked around. :-) X is my next step... for the moment though, I'm happy to be able to use a real monitor, and not a serial console. :-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter) .'''. Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer '.'` : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'.' http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter :.' --------------enig398EF8F0A927FFF921AD8C44 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDmsEPuarJ1mMmSrkRArWRAJ4kSLth9j/A/RV4iCWgcGvFm+n1WwCeNqsE yEd9vGwN4uv68gD1zLXc/rQ= =L5aZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig398EF8F0A927FFF921AD8C44--