Hi,
I've got a few old NCD HMX X-Terminals and I'd like to see if I could get
Linux running on them. The reason I ask is that the units boot an ELF image
over the network, and when running readelf on the image it appears than the
terminals have an R3000 processor:
$ readelf -h Xncdhmx
ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, big endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: EXEC (Executable file)
Machine: MIPS R3000
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x40020000
Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 2625644 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 1
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 7
Section header string table index: 6
Does anyone know what my chances would be of getting a Linux kernel on it? I
found a couple of precompiled MIPS kernel images (one was ELF32 but the other
was ELF64), however when I tried to boot them the terminal simply said "Load
address out of range" and aborted. I was using the precompiled images
because I really want to know whether it'll work before I go to the trouble
of installing all the cross-compilation tools.
Any info would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Adam.
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