Re: My K9 Blackdog
Thanks, Lennart. I'll check out that source. I DO have access
to the BlackDog SDK which runs on windows using QEMU that has GCC and
will compile for my Virtex CPU. Sadly, I have no sources at all.
They didn't ship the sources on the DVD nor as part of the SDK..
Ok, it sounds like I need to copy off an image of whats on my
current blackdog. Then start up the SDK Emulator and point it
towards archive.debia.org and get my sources. Then maybe I can
compile a new kernel in the emulator and test that it runs. Then I
can create an update for my current kernel. At least that sounds
like a plan.
Jeff
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 04:04:45PM -0800, Neko Ecchi wrote:
>> Hi everyone. I'm not sure how active
>> this list is, but I thought I'd give it a try
>> to see if I can get my old K9 Blackdog
>> running. For those who don't know, the
>> K9 Blackdog is an old PPC computer
>> that plugs into a regular computer via USB
>> and boots an xwindow. My blackdog is
>> currently running Olmec Linux based off
>> of Debian Linux.
>>
>> My linux version is 2.6.16.20-1-bd
>>
>> My CPU is an ancient Virtex-II Pro.
>>
>> Now as for my problem, the company
>> that made my K9 has long since gone
>> out of business, taking all the sources
>> and images with them. Naturally, this
>> makes me want to get my K9 updated
>> and working.
>>
>> My /etc/apt/sources.list points to:
>> deb http://apt.projectblackdog.com/inuara airedale main contrib non-free
>> deb http://apt.projectblackdog.com/inuara airedale/updates main contrib non-free
>>
>> That location no longer exists and
>> throws 302 errors when I attempt to use
>> apt-get to update pretty much anything.
>> My apt-cache shows all my images are also
>> stored on the apt.projectblackdog.com
>> location so I can't update anything that way.
>> I can't even get GCC installed because
>> it goes to the old site.
>>
>> Is there a sources location that someone
>> can point me to where I can try to use
>> apt-get to install some programs off of?
>> Would it work to just update my current
>> sources.list to a new debian source location
>> and run my installs? I have already contacted
>> Olmec and they don't have any of the
>> K9 Sources available. Do I need to
>> get back to basics and crosscompile off
>> a different machine?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice you can give me.
>
> Well some thoughts at least:
>
> The kernel will be a problem, since Debian almost certainly does not
> have a kernel that will boot on it, and Debian these days requires a
> newer kernel, for things like udev, and such to work. So simply
> installing Debian powerpc packages from wheezy or even squeeze is almost
> certainly not an option.
>
> It could also be that installing Debian packages could break something
> used to handle the odd startup procedure it uses for the UI.
>
> The closest Debian version would I think be Etch, which released with
> a 2.6.18 kernel. So if you were to point at the etch archives on the
> archive server, you might be able to get a working compiler and a few
> other things. The url for sources.list for that would be:
>
> deb http://archive.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
>
> I would make sure to know how to restore the system before messing around
> with it though, if you care to keep it working. If you don't care and
> are just having fun because you have it, then perhaps it is worth a try.
> Installing a few packages hopefully won't mess up much.
>
> There is virtex II pro support in powerpc in the upstream kernel tree,
> but whether it still works or is supported is another story. It is not
> enabled in Debian's powerpc kernel builds last I checked.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
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