From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:44:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cm19173.red.mundo-r.com ([IPv6:::ffff:213.60.19.173]:27513 "EHLO trasno.mitica") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:44:46 +0000 Received: by trasno.mitica (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 24D986EE; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:44:31 +0100 (CET) To: Ralf Baechle Cc: Julian Scheel , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Set Registers for VR4181A X-Url: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~quintela From: Juan Quintela In-Reply-To: <20030324140529.C4959@linux-mips.org> (Ralf Baechle's message of "Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:05:30 +0100") References: <200303240816.03482.jscheel@activevb.de> <20030324140529.C4959@linux-mips.org> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:44:31 +0100 Message-ID: <86r88wc20w.fsf@trasno.mitica> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2.93 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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: 1798 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: quintela@mandrakesoft.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips >>>>> "ralf" == Ralf Baechle writes: ralf> 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. ralf> Fixinging the few assumptions that Linus is making about the initializaton ^^^^^ ralf> state of the machine should be fairly easy. I assume you mean Linux :) Later, Juan "who didn't knew that Linus hacked in Linux/MIPS lately" -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy