Re: building kernel for cobalt server

[Erik de Castro Lopo <nospam@mega-nerd.com>]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:48:07 -0500
Nik Reiman <nik@aboleo.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> After getting debian 3.0 up and running on my Raq2, I'd really like to
> be able to build the 2.4.20 kernel.  After rooting around Paul
> Martin's webspace a bit, I found the config files he'd used to build
> the 2.4.19 kernel.  However, I found that a lot of these options
> weren't in the menuconfig when I tried to do it myself (such as
> CONFIG_COBALT_LCD, CONFIG_CPU_NEVADA, and a few other options).  Am I
> overlooking something, or is there a special way that one has to build
> kernels for this architecture?

I believe that the Linux kernel is missing quite a bit of MIPS 
functionality. Try grabbing the MIPS kernel patches here:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-mips/

Erik
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