From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:05:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from p508B6D77.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.109.119]:14209 "EHLO dea.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:05:37 +0000 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h2OD5U906302; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:05:30 +0100 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:05:30 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Julian Scheel Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Set Registers for VR4181A Message-ID: <20030324140529.C4959@linux-mips.org> References: <200303240816.03482.jscheel@activevb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200303240816.03482.jscheel@activevb.de>; from jscheel@activevb.de on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:16:03AM +0100 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: 1797 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: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:16:03AM +0100, Julian Scheel wrote: > as I wrote a few weeks ago I have a NEC VR4181A-Board, on which I want to get > linux running. Currently I have a kernel which should work, but it can't > boot, since linux seems to expect that the registers have been already set by > the bootloader. Since the used bootloader is a very small one which only > proceeds the given files (written by a friend of me) it didn't do this job, > so linux tries to access registers, which are not set yet. Fixinging the few assumptions that Linus is making about the initializaton state of the machine should be fairly easy. Ralf