On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:27:39PM +0000, Joel Soete wrote: > > Where is this FAQ item mentioned above? > Simply at <http://www.parisc-linux.org/> :-) Please be so kind and show me the exact item on http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/ I can't find it. > > And how is this ment, anyway? > > Just switching consoles within HP's »BIOS«, > Two possibility: [...] Thanks. But since I found http://www.pateam.org/parisc-linux-boot/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO.html#consoles I do know how to switch from graphics(4) to serial_1 and back (the output of PALO was captured via minicom). > > or passing some arguments via /etc/palo.conf, > only requested for some k model iirc (to force kernel to use > ttyB0 for the mux) Ok. > > or compiling the kernel with different settings? > > At a first glance I would try first the b180 config (a quick look at > <http://www.openpa.net/index.html>, seems to me the nearest): > prebuild kernel for different model are available at > <http://cvs.parisc-linux.org/download/linux-2.6/> (see instruction > at the top of page to install package :-) I started my custom compiled 2.6.10 with the configuration of the Debian kernel kernel-image-2.6.8-1-32. Not sure what kind of architecture that targets. Anyway, my initial suspicion was that the initrd-image failed to load, so I tried a custom kernel without. No success. My last experiment was configuring the kernel to a serial console. $ egrep '(CONS|SER)' .config # CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y CONFIG_SERIO=y CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT=m # CONFIG_SERIO_PARKBD is not set CONFIG_SERIO_PCIPS2=y # CONFIG_SERIO_RAW is not set # CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=4 # CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED is not set # CONFIG_SERIAL_MUX is not set # CONFIG_PDC_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_LP_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_STI_CONSOLE=m CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE_COLUMNS=160 CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE_ROWS=64 CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=m # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set Still no success. Now I think that a) either PALO does not understand the file format of the kernel a completely misses the entry point $ palo --help | head -1 palo version 1.5 bame@c3k Fri May 14 16:17:56 MDT 2004 b) or that the kernel fucks up extremely soon. The C240 has four LEDs on the front panel. When booting a 2.4.x the LED number 2 flashes like wild, and number 4 shows a regular pulse (the symbol below looks like a heart, so it's probably a heart beat). Anyway, when booting 2.6.x only the heart beat LED is active. Perhaps invalid code, for the wrong CPU, or bad optimization by the compiler ... $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu family : PA-RISC 2.0 cpu : PA8200 (PCX-U+) cpu MHz : 236.000000 model : 9000/782/C240+ model name : Raven U 240 (9000/780/C240) hversion : 0x00005990 sversion : 0x00000481 I-cache : 2048 KB D-cache : 2048 KB (WB) ITLB entries : 120 DTLB entries : 120 - shared with ITLB BTLB fixed : max. 16384 pages, pagesize=4096 (64MB) BTLB fix-entr. : 0 instruction, 0 data (16 combined) BTLB var-entr. : 0 instruction, 0 data (0 combined) bogomips : 470.22 software id : 2015568046 $ grep 'CONFIG_PA[0-9]' .config # CONFIG_PA7000 is not set # CONFIG_PA7100LC is not set # CONFIG_PA7200 is not set # CONFIG_PA7300LC is not set CONFIG_PA8X00=y CONFIG_PA20=y > or build your own: in the subdir arch/parisc/configs/ you would > find b180_defconfig which you copy as .config in the top of your > kernel tree then "make oldconfig; make vmlinux" ;-) So you are saying that I should give both binary and configuration in http://cvs.parisc-linux.org/download/linux-2.6/autobuild/b180_defconfig/ a try. Well, thanks for the hint. > [...] Even thought some foreign pci card (some ATI and Vodoo iirc) > are reported to works (not using stifb obviously because couldn't be > detected by pdc) for X [...] I don't need X11, and 2.4.27-32-pa4 runs fine with STI. -- This ain't no sig.
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