From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 22 May 2007 17:18:44 +0100 (BST) Received: from phoenix.bawue.net ([193.7.176.60]:21898 "EHLO mail.bawue.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20024435AbXEVQSj (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 17:18:39 +0100 Received: from lagash (intrt.mips-uk.com [194.74.144.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bawue.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F93A861E0; Tue, 22 May 2007 17:18:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HqW8O-0000ds-Fu; Tue, 22 May 2007 16:18:48 +0100 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:18:48 +0100 To: sknauert@wesleyan.edu Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: SGI O2 meth: missing sysfs device symlink Message-ID: <20070522151848.GB19833@networkno.de> References: <20070516151939.GH19816@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20070516160313.GA3409@bongo.bofh.it> <50621.192.168.2.50.1179383217.squirrel@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org> <20070517151636.GJ3586@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20070521154726.GE5943@linux-mips.org> <20070522110956.GB29118@linux-mips.org> <1179834093.7896.23.camel@scarafaggio> <34888.129.133.92.31.1179835313.squirrel@webmail.wesleyan.edu> <20070522122808.GD32557@linux-mips.org> <36324.129.133.92.31.1179840724.squirrel@webmail.wesleyan.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <36324.129.133.92.31.1179840724.squirrel@webmail.wesleyan.edu> 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: 15131 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 sknauert@wesleyan.edu wrote: > > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:01:53AM -0400, sknauert@wesleyan.edu wrote: > > > >> I've noticed that besides kernel complied from the Debian 2.6.18, I > >> can't > >> get any other kernel (vanilla from kernel.org or the separate linux-MIPS > >> repository) to boot on my O2. > >> > >> If you need beta testers, I can try, but it will take a day or so > >> (compiling on the O2 is slow). > > > > Sounds almost like you're building an excessibly large kernel > > configuration. > > A realistic kernel config will crosscompile within a few minutes on a > > modest machine such as a 3GHz / 1GB P4-class PC. > > > > I could never get cross-compiling to work, so I've been doing all my > compiling directly on the R5K 300 Mhz CPU in my O2. If there is an easy > way to get this to work, I'd be very thankful for some pointers. Might my > trying to compile on the actual machine be why I can't seem to use any > source other than Debian's 2.6.18? Should be rather straightforward: - Add the sources.list line mentioned in the repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list, for debian/stable that's: deb http://people.debian.org/~ths/toolchain/current etch/ - apt-get update - apt-get install gcc-4.1-mips-linux-gnu - In your www.linux-mips.org source tree, compile with e.g. make CROSS_COMPILE=mips-linux-gnu- oldconfig make CROSS_COMPILE=mips-linux-gnu- all Thiemo