Re: Status on mips and mipsel
* Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org> [2007-11-25 01:14]:
> Looking at the source the output is _very_ misleading - tip22 isn't
> actually starting the kernel - it's just printing the enty point - the
> ramdisk is actually loaded afterwards.
>
> Looking at the code I doubt tip22 _ever_ supported 64bit kernels. The
> whole _start64() code is missing - I still wonder why you don't see the
> "Copied initrd..." - I'll have look but please don't hold your breath.
Odd because I'm pretty sure we've been using 64 bit kernels on IP22
for quite a while.
In any case, when I use arcboot to load the debian-installer ramdisk
from disk it works:
arcsboot: ARCS Linux ext2fs loader 0.3.8.9
Loading Linux from scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)
Allocated 0x38 bytes for segments
Loading 64-bit executable
Loading program segment 1 at 0x88004000, offset=0x0 4000, size = 0x0 45c086
45c000 (cache: 95.4%)Zeroing memory at 0x88460086, size = 0x3f40a
Loading initrd /boot/initrd.gz from scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)
Loading initrd at 0x8887c000, 4032665 bytes...
3e4000 (cache: 95.4%)Starting ELF64 kernel
Linux version 2.6.22-3-r4k-ip22 (Debian 2.6.22-6) (maks@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20071019 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-17)) #1 Thu Nov 15 05:09:57 UTC 2007
Unfortunately, we really need a working tip22 for d-i.
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Martin Michlmayr
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