Re: Official Loongson-port
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 07:53:47PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 20100820 om 11:30 schreef Cato Auestad:
> > 2010/8/20 Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>:
> > > Cato Auestad:
> > >> [interested in having a Loongson-port ]
> > >
> > > I have a Notebook Lemote Yeeloong 8101_B and /proc/cpuinfo has (among
> > > other things):
> >
> > I have the exact same netbook, but I also have the Lemote FuLoong mini-PC
> > in which I currently are running Debian - but not from a installer. I
> > had to download
> > and extract a complete system to a partition and boot a custom kernel. The
> > system was using an older kernel and were configured in chinese so it took
> > some time to get "everything right".
>
> Meanwhile there is a Debian kernel for Loongson
> Still in 'exprimental', but it exists. Just do
> cd /tmp
> wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.35-trunk-loongson-2f_2.6.35-1~experimental.2_mipsel.deb
> wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-base_2.6.35-1~experimental.2_all.deb
> dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.35-trunk-loongson-2f_2.6.35-1~experimental.2_mipsel.deb linux-base_2.6.35-1~experimental.2_all.deb
> to get it installed.
I tried upgrading to it. It fails to boot here.
I decided I'll stick with pmon for the moment and only switch to grub
once I see the kernel works, so I'm still with pmon.
In /boot/boot.cfg I have, among others: The default entry that works:
title Linux 2.6.33-rc2
kernel /dev/fs/ext2@wd0/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33-rc2
args console=tty root=/dev/hda1
And the new one that doesn't:
title Linux 2.6.35 (Experimental)
kernel /dev/fs/ext2@wd0/boot/vmlinux-2.6.35-trunk-loongson-2f
args console=tty root=/dev/hda1
initrd /dev/fs/ext2@wd0/boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-trunk-loongson-2f
Without the initrd it just paniced quickly. Now I just get a black
screen. The disk works for quite some time, but I fail to get any other
response. After two minutes or so the disk LED is no longer lit, so I
suppose the system has finished booting, but I can't even get a reply to
a ping.
So I guess that my first question is: what can I do to have the console
proprly display text? Anybody else has that problem?
The package I have is
linux-image-2.6.35-trunk-loongson-2f 2.6.35-1~experimental.2
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