Hi Stu,
long time, no see :-)
On 11-Jan-00 Stu Allen wrote:
> I'd be very interested in trying out the current MIPS stuff on mine -- I got
> as far as getting to "can't mount root device" if I remember correctly a
> couple years ago, but my involvement since then has been limited to just
> reading an occasional message on the mailing list(s). The major stumbling
> block I think was the memory sizing routine -- I ended up hardcoding my
> memory size and recompiling a custom kernel to get that far.
As far as I can remember the DS5100 PROM left the "Boot Exception Vector" bit
enabled. This is easy to fix.
> Is there somewhere I can go for a summary of where everything stands today,
> and what I need to grab to give it another whirl?
http://decstation.unix-ag.org
http://www.xs4all.nl/~vhouten/mipsel/
http://web.inter.NL.net/users/schnecke/mips/
and, of course
http://oss.sgi.com/www.linux.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html
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Regards,
Harald
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