Re: Build 64bit on RaQ2

[Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>]

Jim Gifford wrote:
>   Has anyone had any luck compiling a 64 bit version on the RaQ2. I can 
> get it to compile but, it locks up during boot up.
> 
> elf64: 00080000 - 0042fd3f (ffffffff,803e6000) (ffffffff,8000000)
> elf64: ffffffff,80080000 (8008000) 3731589t + 134331t
> 
> That's all I got during bootup, no error messages or anything.

Peter Horton had some experimental code in the kernel at one point to try 
this.  I managed to get a 2.6.9 (I think, maybe 2.6.10) mips64 kernel to boot 
on cobalt, but it was pretty useless.  Poor machine was slower than molasses 
uphill in winter.

I believe cobalt would run better using the o64 kernel hack than pure n64 
kernel (-mabi=64), but cobalt needs some fixups to its spaces.h before an o64 
kernel will build on it.


--Kumba

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