Re: Set Registers for VR4181A

[Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>]

>>>>> "ralf" == Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> writes:

ralf> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 08:16:03AM +0100, Julian Scheel wrote:
>> as I wrote a few weeks ago I have a NEC VR4181A-Board, on which I want to 
>> get 
>> linux running. Currently I have a kernel which should work, but it can't 
>> boot, since linux seems to expect that the registers have been already set 
>> by 
>> the bootloader. Since the used bootloader is a very small one which only 
>> proceeds the given files (written by a friend of me) it didn't do this job, 
>> so linux tries to access registers, which are not set yet.

ralf> Fixinging the few assumptions that Linus is making about the initializaton
                                         ^^^^^
ralf> state of the machine should be fairly easy.

I assume you mean Linux :)

Later, Juan "who didn't knew that Linus hacked in Linux/MIPS lately"



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