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Linux on the MobilePro 7xx

DISCUSSION Wim Vander Schelden 3 participants 3 messages Feb 2, 2007 – Feb 13, 2007 MIPS

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Hi,

I just purchased a MobilePro 770 and I intend to port linux to it. It runs on a VR4121 CPU, is there already some support in linux-mips for that?

I found some stuff on the net, but it all uses 2.4 kernels, and I would rather get a 2.6 going.

Anyone who knows a little bit more about the subject is welcome to comment,

Wim

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Hi,

I just purchased a MobilePro 770 and I intend to port linux to it. It runs on a VR4121 CPU, is there already some support in linux-mips for that?

I found some stuff on the net, but it all uses 2.4 kernels, and I would rather get a 2.6 going.

Anyone who knows a little bit more about the subject is welcome to comment,

Wim

Hi Wim,

The VR41XX branch is pretty much fully supported in the kernel, thanks to Yoichi Yuasa's work. You just need to make some board setup code for the MP and you should be ready to boot a kernel on it.

On the current linux-mips tree there is NO support for neither fb, pcmcia, touchscreen or keyboard for the MP; there are, however, some drivers for fb, tpanel and keyb written somewhere, just look for them.

PCMCIA is broken due to i82365 legacy way of sorting irq's. Taking a look at old linux-vr code for 2.4 tree might help to give you an idea on whats causing the problem.

Ricardo