Snapshot

I've put a snapshot of current CVS kernel sources into oss.sgi.com:/pub/linux/mips/src/kernel/linux-19991206.tar.gz.

Ralf

^
Put in v2.3/ and you find it. --+

Raz

Most important for you guys out there the upgrade to 2.3.21 and a number of bug fixes. Try it, break it. Again ;-) Aside of this this kernel also has a good part of the 64-bit stuff. Not all of it, I'm maintaining the 32-bit kernel, the Indy 64-bit and the Origin kernel as separate trees to prevent bugs from creeping from on tree in the other.

Short resume:

Doesnt work on Decstation 5000/150 Mips R4000 ...
Reboots immediatly after end of tftp download ...

KN04 V2.1k (PC: 0x8005c044, SP: 0x838a9de0)

-tftp boot(3), bootp 193.189.250.46:/boot/vmlinux-2.3.21-decR4k.ecoff -tftp load 1222624+0+369568

KN04 V2.1k (PC: 0x8005c044, SP: 0x80047f78)

-tftp boot(3), bootp 193.189.250.46:/boot/vmlinux-2.3.21-decR4k.ecoff -tftp load 1222624+0+369568

So long ...

Flo

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  ...  The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is
  catastrophic and is repeatable  ...             Cisco Field Notice

http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html

" 6.2 Self compiled kernels crash when booting.

When I build my own kernel, it crashes. On an Indy the crash message looks like the following; the same problem hits other machines as well but may look completely different.

[...]

This problem is caused by a still unfixed bug in Binutils newer than version 2.7. As a workaround, change the following line in arch/mips/Makefile from:

LINKFLAGS = -static -N

to:

LINKFLAGS = -static"

BTW, little endian semaphores for R4xxx and TLB miss handlers for R3xxx are broken in this snapshot. This is fixed since yesterday and 2.3.21 is happily running on a /260 and a /133. If you want to play around with recent kernels I suggest a fresh cvs checkout. Instructions can be found at the above URL.

Hope this helps.

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Regards,
Harald

Hi,

I plan to construct the cross compilation environment as described in the Linux/MIPS-HOWTO. But I could not find the patch for glibc-2.0.6 (glibc-2.0.6-mips.patch) and without this patch, I failed to compile glibc-2.0.6.

Does anyone tell me the place where to find it?

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Best regards,
Jun Matsuda ([email protected])

In the SRPM package of glibc.

Ralf

Hi,

I found the SPRM package for egcs and binutils, but I could not find package for glibc.

I expect the SPRM package for glibc is in:
ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/crossdev/src/

Does anyone know the exact place of the SPRM package for glibc in ftp.linux.sgi.com?

Thanks! I will try it.

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Best regards,
Jun Matsuda ([email protected])

There is a source rpm for it somewhere - Or a debian source package for 2.0.7.981112 or something at

ftp://ftp.rfc822.org/pub/local/debian/debian/experimental

or something like that - It doesnt compile out of the box because the tic and rpcgen get linked to the wrong lib ...

Flo

Florian Lohoff		[email protected]		      	+49-5241-470566
  ...  The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is
  catastrophic and is repeatable  ...             Cisco Field Notice