From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:52:57 +0100 (BST) Received: from smtp-out.comcast.net ([IPv6:::ffff:24.153.64.116]:54915 "EHLO smtp-out.comcast.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:52:56 +0100 Received: from gentoo.org (pcp02545003pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net [68.48.92.102]) by mtaout08.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HDC00751C2BFU@mtaout08.icomcast.net> for linux-mips@linux-mips.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:51:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:53:47 -0400 From: Kumba Subject: Re: Oddities with CVS Kernels, Memory on Indigo2 In-reply-to: <20030414140717.GA805@simek> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Reply-to: kumba@gentoo.org Message-id: <3E9AD98B.90808@gentoo.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 References: <3E98F206.5050206@gentoo.org> <20030414140717.GA805@simek> 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: 2023 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: kumba@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Ladislav Michl wrote: > I'd say you've tried cvs kernel at the times when support for R4400 > caches was broken. I put kernel I'm currently running at > http://www.linux-mips.org/~ladis/vmlinux.gz (gunzip it :)), as you can > see from dmesg at the end of this mail CPU used in your machine is the > same. If kernel I provided doesn't boot for you I'd like to ask you for > help with debugging (kernel was build from cvs updated at 8:30 CEST) > Wow, this booted. Several people I talked to thought it was originally a serial console issue. Judging by the several times I've chosen to build a kernel, it seems R4400 cache gets broken quite often. I'll run a cvs sync now and try to build my own kernel, since this appears to be built from recent code. Your kernel lacked a few things gentoo requires to boot, but it at least proves I'm not going insane over here. > This is known bug, but unfortunately I have not enough RAM to meet it... A known bug? Interesting. I mentioned it many moons ago in #mipslinux, and Ralf seemed curious about it, but he said he looked in the kernel where the memory was detected and said he didn't see anything wrong there. Anything I can do to help look into this bug and possibly fix? >>parport0: PC-style at 0x278 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > it can't work ;) It worked fine for me with printing :) [root@angband root]# echo "Hello World" > /dev/lp0 [root@angband root]# echo "Wow, It works" > /dev/lp0 [root@angband root]# echo "Totally Cool" > /dev/lp0 ^--- All printed out on paper, although scratchy. I need new ink cartridges. Canon BJC-620 Mind you, that's an ISA Parallel Port card I dropped in. I noticed the SGI's parallel port never worked, so I dug up a spare and tried it. --Kumba