Re: O2+ kernel, framebuffer & installer state?
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:19:21AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:45:43AM +0100, Florian Laws wrote:
>
> > > > Technically it is possible to have support for IP22 and IP32 in one kernel
> > > > image, but only common CPU for these is R5000. Btw, Ralf doesn?t like this
> > > > idea. Latest cvs head compliles and runs on r5k O2 (with small additional
> > > > patch). I?ll prepare kernel image for you, just send me config.
> > >
> > > Recall the recent change of load address for IP32 kernels? IP22 kernels
> > > need to be linked to >= 0x88000000 while IP32 needs 0x80000000. But only
> > > on O2 with more than 128MB memory there is memory at >= 0x88000000 ...
> >
> > How does IRIX (resp. sash) solve that problem?
>
> Not at all. Well, different kernel binaries for each platform. PIC code
> would be a possible solution but that'd make my stomach turn upside down :)
I knew that you'll come with this solution yourself ;) Ok, I accept no
generic kernel.
Once more here are links installer people might find usefull when
building O2 kernel:
http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/mips/patches/
http://www.linux-mips.org/~glaurung/
Second one is only for reference, these patches doesn't apply any more
and will be slowly integrated into linux-mips.org CVS.
ladis
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