From paul@suite.sw.oz.au Wed Mar 6 11:56:11 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA08438 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:56:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from staff.cs.su.OZ.AU by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA09742; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:55:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from suite.sw.oz.au by swallow.sw.oz.au with SMTP id KAA27236; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:55:48 GMT (8.6.10/Unixware) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for ) Received: by suite.sw.oz.au id AA11024; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 20:55:40 +1000 (5.65c/1.34) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for linux-mips@fnet.fr) From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) Message-Id: <199603061055.AA11024@suite.sw.oz.au> Subject: Some questions re %HI To: linux-mips@fnet.fr (Linux MIPS mailing list) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 21:55:40 +1100 (EST) Organization: Softway Pty Ltd X-Face: U)Kb/c%d9`JI>Y>s'evmMaR`z*WE$<,["^2)I8o?jkx/d^=dMa$GD(s6[p|npE}r0?)qQ7H *3S2vbK66POj?=%pCn?Bp}D/3A{`-.v0=%L9emS+|Pc91$EP0-;i\ON*p;Mwp$tt3wO~g1Z W.mIz'n~$U&uIM9ix=\1=~""=W?t$3b)>`foC8+3g$m2l;^D$?i}WI(Uxc@THJ9OBbk3g6 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1343 Lines: 32 Hi Folks, I've finally had a chance to start looking at 1.3.62... and I've found that the assembler complains when I compile r3000.S in arch/mips/kernel: r3000.S:103: Error: lui expression not in range 0..65535 This is due to the line: lui k1,%HI(TLBMAP) ...now this is exactly the same code as for the R4000... so I'm assuming it's too big an offset for an r3k. It's late at night, and I'm not up to rummmaging for the solution to this. Ralf? (I had cheated previously by doing a hack, now I want to fix it permanently.) Ciao, Paul P.S. Anyone live near enough to Brussels, Geneve, or Neutraubling? Or, is anyone else attending the European High Performance Computing and Networking conference? I'll be in Brussels in mid-April for the conference, and then on to the other cities (maybe more), and wouldn't mind meeting up with some of our European contingent... _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul M. Antoine, Net: paul@sw.oz.au Softway Pty Ltd WWW: www.softway.com.au PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, Australia Tel: +61 2 698 2322 Level 2, 79 Myrtle St, Chippendale, NSW 2008, Australia Fax: +61 2 699 9174 "It is the lack of acceptance of diversity which threatens to destroy society, NOT the free expression of it." - Me. From linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Wed Mar 6 13:07:59 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA09559 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 13:07:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA10912; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 13:07:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from flake.uni-koblenz.de (linux@flake.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.37]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA16081 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 13:04:08 +0100 From: Systemkennung Linux Message-Id: <199603061204.NAA16081@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by flake.uni-koblenz.de (4.1/KO-2.0) id AA05061; Wed, 6 Mar 96 13:06:24 +0100 Subject: Re: Some questions re %HI To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 13:06:23 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199603061055.AA11024@suite.sw.oz.au> from "Paul Antoine" at Mar 6, 96 09:55:40 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1529 Lines: 36 Hi Folks, > I've finally had a chance to start looking at 1.3.62... and I've found > that the assembler complains when I compile r3000.S in arch/mips/kernel: > > r3000.S:103: Error: lui expression not in range 0..65535 > > This is due to the line: > > lui k1,%HI(TLBMAP) > > ...now this is exactly the same code as for the R4000... so I'm assuming > it's too big an offset for an r3k. It's late at night, and I'm not up > to rummmaging for the solution to this. Ralf? (I had cheated previously > by doing a hack, now I want to fix it permanently.) The lui instruction works exactly the same on all MIPS CPUs. Probably a problem with your assembler? I've fixed this bug for my versions of the GNU binutils 2.5.2 and 2.6; in vanilla Cygnus/FSF binutils %HI, %hi and %lo are completly broken. If you're using one of my assembler version this seems to be another bug. In that case it would be great if you could reduce your code into a minimum example that demostrates the bug. > P.S. Anyone live near enough to Brussels, Geneve, or Neutraubling? Or, > is anyone else attending the European High Performance Computing > and Networking conference? I'll be in Brussels in mid-April for the > conference, and then on to the other cities (maybe more), and > wouldn't mind meeting up with some of our European contingent... Paul, these locations are 200km to 700km or so aways from me and I think for a meeting at Brussels would be ok. (Or will you come to the Linux congress in Berlin ?-) Ralf From gwesp@cosy.sbg.ac.at Wed Mar 6 18:17:39 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA13567 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 18:17:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from frosch.cosy.sbg.ac.at by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA26586; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 18:17:05 +0100 (MET) Received: by frosch.cosy.sbg.ac.at id AA01300 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4 for linux-mips@fnet.fr); Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:01:51 +0100 From: Gerhard Wesp Message-Id: <199603061601.AA01300@frosch.cosy.sbg.ac.at> Subject: DECstation 5000/33 To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 17:01:50 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 531 Lines: 16 Hi! Seems that I can get my hands on such a box to try Linux out. Just read "linux-mips-faq.txt", it mentions only "DECStation 5000/2x, 5000/100, 3100, and others.". So do you know if my box is supported? I don't know which network adaptor the box has, but it might well be that it is _not_ a NE2000 (the only supp. one, according to the faq). Is there any chance of booting without networking? I think the box has SCSI drives, which are also not supported (?) Which mailing list should I subscribe to? Greetings! -Gerhard From paul@suite.sw.oz.au Wed Mar 6 23:13:17 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA17456 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 23:13:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from staff.cs.su.OZ.AU by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA01349; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 23:12:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from suite.sw.oz.au by swallow.sw.oz.au with SMTP id WAA12242; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 22:12:38 GMT (8.6.10/Unixware) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for ) Received: by suite.sw.oz.au id AA27352; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:12:35 +1000 (5.65c/1.34) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for linux-mips@fnet.fr) From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) Message-Id: <199603062212.AA27352@suite.sw.oz.au> Subject: Re: DECstation 5000/33 To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:12:35 +1100 (EST) Cc: linux-mips@fnet.fr (Linux MIPS mailing list) In-Reply-To: <199603061601.AA01300@frosch.cosy.sbg.ac.at> from "Gerhard Wesp" at Mar 6, 96 05:01:50 pm Organization: Softway Pty Ltd X-Face: U)Kb/c%d9`JI>Y>s'evmMaR`z*WE$<,["^2)I8o?jkx/d^=dMa$GD(s6[p|npE}r0?)qQ7H *3S2vbK66POj?=%pCn?Bp}D/3A{`-.v0=%L9emS+|Pc91$EP0-;i\ON*p;Mwp$tt3wO~g1Z W.mIz'n~$U&uIM9ix=\1=~""=W?t$3b)>`foC8+3g$m2l;^D$?i}WI(Uxc@THJ9OBbk3g6 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2529 Lines: 59 Hi Gerhard, > Seems that I can get my hands on such a box to try Linux out. > Just read "linux-mips-faq.txt", it mentions only > "DECStation 5000/2x, 5000/100, 3100, and others.". So do you know if > my box is supported? I didn't know there was a 5000/33... does it have the name Personal DECStation on the front? I assume it's just a 5000/25 made to run at 33Mhz if it is a Personal DECStation, in which case all of my comments on the 5000/2x series would be identical. In any case, we have found that all of the 5000 series tested so far work fine (including the big server versions). Do you currently run Ultrix on this machine? If you do, could you tell me what the initial startup messages say when you begin booting Ultrix (they usually describe the type of CPU, its speed etc.) > I don't know which network adaptor the box has, but it might well be that > it is _not_ a NE2000 (the only supp. one, according to the faq). The NE2000 is only supported by PC-like R4000 machines like the Deskstation etc. The DECStations do not have ISA buses... they have a thing called turbo-channel instead. The DECStations all use built-in ethernet chips on the motherboard, which are similar to those used in the Western Digital adapters on PC's (though of course they work better in the DECStation). This means we need special device drivers for the DECStation's ethernet, but that they will be easy to write because they use the same chips. The device drivers for ethernet for the DECStation are not complete as yet, but DEC's BOOT PROM monitor does allow booting via the network which is how we're testing the kernels (because even the floppy driver is not working yet.) > Is there any chance of booting without networking? I think the box > has SCSI drives, which are also not supported (?) None as yet, because SCSI isn't supported yet either! ...which is why we're using net booting from the boot prom. > Which mailing list should I subscribe to? The general linux-mips mailing list is fine. > Greetings! And you! Do you have any kernel-hacking experience? Paul _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul M. Antoine, Net: paul@sw.oz.au Softway Pty Ltd WWW: www.softway.com.au PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, Australia Tel: +61 2 698 2322 Level 2, 79 Myrtle St, Chippendale, NSW 2008, Australia Fax: +61 2 699 9174 "It is the lack of acceptance of diversity which threatens to destroy society, NOT the free expression of it." - Me. From arnold@foxtail.dstc.edu.au Thu Mar 7 01:40:16 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA19438 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 01:40:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from gatekeeper.waldorf-gmbh.de by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA03248; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 01:39:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from trapdoor.dstc.edu.au (root@trapdoor.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.12]) by gatekeeper.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA06188 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 01:43:20 +0100 Received: from foxtail.dstc.edu.au (foxtail.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.14]) by trapdoor.dstc.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA07298 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:39:33 +1000 Received: from mailhost.dstc.edu.au (arnold@localhost) by foxtail.dstc.edu.au (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA23399 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:39:32 +1000 Message-Id: <199603070039.KAA23399@foxtail.dstc.edu.au> To: linux@waldorf-gmbh.de Subject: DECstation 3100 looking for new OS X-Face: 2#;/avfeVL:b Content-Length: 745 Lines: 18 after reading the MIPS HOWTO, i thought i'd let you know (as requested) that i own a 3100 and while it is currently running Ultrix4.4 i'd be quite interested in working on a Linux port. what's the status of the port now? how's the video and SCSI drivers? i am interested in helping out with the development. what's to be done? -- David Arnold ,================================================= =================' +617 3654310 (voice) CRC for Distributed Systems Technology +617 3654311 (fax) University of Queensland arnold@dstc.edu.au (email) Australia (web) C++ compilers rarely optimize for the joy of programming - lwall From paul@suite.sw.oz.au Thu Mar 7 06:53:36 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA24911 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 06:53:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from staff.cs.su.OZ.AU by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA06961; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 06:53:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from suite.sw.oz.au by swallow.sw.oz.au with SMTP id FAA22037; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 05:53:15 GMT (8.6.10/Unixware) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for ) Received: by suite.sw.oz.au id AA05468; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:53:13 +1000 (5.65c/1.34) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for linux-mips@fnet.fr) From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) Message-Id: <199603070553.AA05468@suite.sw.oz.au> Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 looking for new OS To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 16:53:12 +1100 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199603070039.KAA23399@foxtail.dstc.edu.au> from "David Arnold" at Mar 7, 96 10:39:31 am Organization: Softway Pty Ltd X-Face: U)Kb/c%d9`JI>Y>s'evmMaR`z*WE$<,["^2)I8o?jkx/d^=dMa$GD(s6[p|npE}r0?)qQ7H *3S2vbK66POj?=%pCn?Bp}D/3A{`-.v0=%L9emS+|Pc91$EP0-;i\ON*p;Mwp$tt3wO~g1Z W.mIz'n~$U&uIM9ix=\1=~""=W?t$3b)>`foC8+3g$m2l;^D$?i}WI(Uxc@THJ9OBbk3g6 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2116 Lines: 51 Hi David, > after reading the MIPS HOWTO, i thought i'd let you know (as > requested) that i own a 3100 and while it is currently running > Ultrix4.4 i'd be quite interested in working on a Linux port. > > what's the status of the port now? I have done most of the work so far, and have now released the code as part of the general Linux-Mips 1.3.62 kernel available on ftp.fnet.fr and other mirrors. > how's the video and SCSI drivers? The kernel currently uses the boot prom callback routines for screen output, but converting some of the code from one of the R4000 machines will probably work as the next step. The kernel boots to the point of calibrating the delay loop on the 5000 series, and stops there as we've not done any of the interrupt stuff for clock ticks (or anything else for that matter). The code supports the R3000, but I was quite careful to make sure the R2000 was supported too. 3100 support probably needs more work in the area of screen and keyboard drivers before we can tell how far the kernel is getting on them. SCSI, ethernet and floppy are the next things to cover once keyboard and screen are being handled natively (i.e. rather than through the boot prom). > i am interested in helping out with the development. what's to be > done? Lots! I'm still writing release notes for the current source (which I will do once I get it to compile!), and then a TODO list. The source does have lots of FIXME comments, which is where you could start I suppose. You could also grab the 2100/3100 hardware documentation off the DEC site and start reading... Oh yeah - you could subscribe to the linux-mips mailing list... Regards, Paul _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul M. Antoine, Net: paul@sw.oz.au Softway Pty Ltd WWW: www.softway.com.au PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, Australia Tel: +61 2 698 2322 Level 2, 79 Myrtle St, Chippendale, NSW 2008, Australia Fax: +61 2 699 9174 "It is the lack of acceptance of diversity which threatens to destroy society, NOT the free expression of it." - Me. From afritz@starlink.com Fri Mar 8 10:44:31 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA18085 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:44:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from orion.starlink.com by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA09837; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 10:44:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from afritz.phx.primenet.com (pm2-13.starlink.com [206.26.42.183]) by orion.starlink.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA09780 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 22:31:05 -0700 Message-Id: <199603080531.WAA09780@orion.starlink.com> X-Sender: afritz@starlink.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 22:15:42 -0700 To: linux-mips@fnet.fr From: Adam Fritzler Subject: DECstation Linux/MIPS Content-Length: 824 Lines: 21 Dear Linux/MIPS Developers: I have an old DECstation 5000/20 (a.k.a. Personal DECstation) laying here and would like to run Linux on it...is the DECstation Linux/MIPS running/working yet (at a usable level)? I was also wandering if Linux/MIPS would still work if I was to purchase the R4000 upgrade daughterboard (from DEC) for it? Thanx, Adam Fritzler afritz@starlink.com PS: I would also be willing to do what ever I could to help your effort, although I know very little about C/C++ programming and probably couldn't be much help. -------------------------------------- - Adam Fritzler - - afritz@starlink.com - -------------------------------------- From miff@spam.frisbee.net.au Sat Mar 9 03:01:21 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA03265 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 03:01:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from lovely.spam.frisbee.net.au (spam.apana.org.au) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA27728; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 03:00:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from lovely.spam.frisbee.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lovely.spam.frisbee.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01622 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 12:49:14 +1030 Sender: miff@spam.frisbee.net.au Message-Id: <3140EA9F.15FB7483@spam.frisbee.net.au> Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 12:49:11 +1030 From: michael smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: More obscure MIPS hardware... X-Url: http://lena.fnet.fr/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 602 Lines: 18 Howdy Linux-MIPS people! A quick question for those of you familiar with the MIPS product line; I have a couple of M2/000 systems here (VME, 25MHz R3000's) gathering dust as (currently) table supports. Having a real OS (nobody has even been able to offer me a copy of RISCos!) would be a great benefit for them. I have a copy of the "M/2000 RISComputer Technical Reference", which is a reasonably low-level overview of the system, however it makes no reference to whether the system is ARC-compliant or not. A quick response to "is it worth it" would be illuminating. Thanks for your time. Mike From paul@suite.sw.oz.au Sat Mar 9 06:48:22 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA06274 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 06:48:21 +0100 (MET) Received: from staff.cs.su.OZ.AU by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA00687; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 06:47:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from suite.sw.oz.au by swallow.sw.oz.au with SMTP id FAA14956; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 05:47:57 GMT (8.6.10/Unixware) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for ) Received: by suite.sw.oz.au id AA26637; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 15:47:55 +1000 (5.65c/1.34) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for linux-mips@fnet.fr) From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) Message-Id: <199603090547.AA26637@suite.sw.oz.au> Subject: More DECStation progress! To: linux-mips@fnet.fr (Linux MIPS mailing list) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 16:47:55 +1100 (EST) Organization: Softway Pty Ltd X-Face: U)Kb/c%d9`JI>Y>s'evmMaR`z*WE$<,["^2)I8o?jkx/d^=dMa$GD(s6[p|npE}r0?)qQ7H *3S2vbK66POj?=%pCn?Bp}D/3A{`-.v0=%L9emS+|Pc91$EP0-;i\ON*p;Mwp$tt3wO~g1Z W.mIz'n~$U&uIM9ix=\1=~""=W?t$3b)>`foC8+3g$m2l;^D$?i}WI(Uxc@THJ9OBbk3g6 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1527 Lines: 40 Hi folks! I've been working on getting the 1.3.62 source tree to compile for the DECStations, and am currently coping with Stoned's new argument passing goo. I have also done a few significant things this weekend: Published an initial DECStation Port home page on: http://www.softway.com.au/people/paul/dec/ Published the bootp/tftp doco in HTML on: http://www.softway.com.au/people/paul/dec/dec_tftpboot.html Hacked a hardware reset switch for my 5000/2x machine, and documented the hack on: http://www.softway.com.au/people/paul/dec/5000_reset_switch.html Learnt a lot of HTML as a result of the above :-) Would all those interested please check out this doco, and forward any comments to me. Ralf: you may want to link your Linux/MIPS pages to these, and check any links I have that go back to yours. Note: I have tried to include a list of all those people interested and/or contributing to the DECStation ports, so check to see if your name is there and whether I have correctly mentioned your interests and/or contributions. Regards, Paul _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul M. Antoine, Net: paul@sw.oz.au Softway Pty Ltd WWW: www.softway.com.au PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, Australia Tel: +61 2 698 2322 Level 2, 79 Myrtle St, Chippendale, NSW 2008, Australia Fax: +61 2 699 9174 "It is the lack of acceptance of diversity which threatens to destroy society, NOT the free expression of it." - Me. From tor@spacetec.no Sat Mar 9 18:50:43 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA15585 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 18:50:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from pallas.spacetec.no by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA07265; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 18:50:10 +0100 (MET) Received: (from tor@localhost) by pallas.spacetec.no (8.7.1/8.7.1) id SAA15220 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Sat, 9 Mar 1996 18:49:22 +0100 Message-Id: <199603091749.SAA15220@pallas.spacetec.no> From: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 18:49:21 +0100 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: M700-10 Content-Length: 3323 Lines: 63 Hi, I've kept a bare-bone Olivetti M700-10 around for a while, collecting dust, but finally I bought some RAM, borrowed a floppy drive etc. and tried to boot MILO on it. I followed the instructions in the Linux/MIPS HOWTO, and MILO identified it just fine as far as I could see. As the M700-10 is listed in the Linux/MIPS FAQ as supported this shouldn't be too surprising I guess, but it was encouraging anyway :-) I understand there is a mailing list at fnet.fr? Is linux-mips@fnet.fr the mailing list itself? In the following I'm assuming that it is, I hope this is ok.. (I've been on the vger list for a long time, but there is no activity there.) What I would like to do with my Olivetti is to eventually use it as a home workstation, hopefully with an ISDN connection or something to where I work. Until I can do that I'll keep it at work where I can do cross- compiling and possibly use the network for NFS etc. From the FAQ I understand that the on-board SCSI and Ethernet adapters are not yet supported. I have an old SCSI disk which I once used in my Linux PC (ext2 file system on it), and the Olivetti diagnostic program found it and ran a successful test on it. But if the adapter doesn't work yet I'll have to wait with that one I guess. What I do have that may work is an ISA NE2000 based Ethernet adapter, twisted pair, no jumpers (software configured). Could this one be used? The FAQ indicates that it can, but without jumpers I'm not sure (I have no experience with NE2000 boards). I have experimented with a Sparc IPC running SparcLinux and mounting everything over NFS, so something similar is what I had in mind for the NE2000 board with the M700-10. I'm also thinking about setting up a cross-development environment on an SGI Challenge running Irix 5.3 (got some disk space there). Are there any problems with cross-compiling for little-endian on a big-endian system? I guess it is no problem these days, but I remember a time when it used to be.. I'll just go ahead I guess, and then I will know soon enough :-) (I've picked up diffs for binutils and gcc, and some more stuff, from the ftp directory.) As the M700-10 is an EISA machine there are a few things I'm uncertain about. According to the manual every board has to be configured in, even ISA boards. The manual indicates that there should be a configuration program (SD.EXE) on one of the system diskettes. What I have for this machine is one diagnostic diskette and three user diskettes. The third one is unreadable and the two others have no such program. Anyone around with some knowledge about M700-10? I'm not sure yet what I could help with in the Linux/MIPS development. Probably not much as far as the kernel is concerned, except for testing. Maybe something in userland. I'm a fairly experienced programmer, and a long-time Linux user (I've used Linux since early 0.95, and a Linux PC has been my office workstation for several years now). My job is software development, and we have a mixed enviroment of Suns, SGIs and HPs at work. My Linux PC is one of the absolutely most stable systems here.. not bad for a "hackers OS" :-) Hopefully I could do something for Linux/MIPS -- I'll first try to get it up and running here, some way or another. Regards, Tor Arntsen (tor@spacetec.no) From paul@suite.sw.oz.au Sun Mar 10 01:16:20 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA20904 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 01:16:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from staff.cs.su.OZ.AU by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA10979; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 01:15:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from suite.sw.oz.au by swallow.sw.oz.au with SMTP id AAA02643; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 00:15:49 GMT (8.6.10/Unixware) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for ) Received: by suite.sw.oz.au id AA01327; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 10:15:38 +1000 (5.65c/1.34) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for triemer@wesleyan.edu) From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) Message-Id: <199603100015.AA01327@suite.sw.oz.au> Subject: Compiling 1.3.62 for DECStations... To: linux-mips@fnet.fr (Linux MIPS mailing list) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:15:37 +1100 (EST) Cc: triemer@wesleyan.edu Organization: Softway Pty Ltd X-Face: U)Kb/c%d9`JI>Y>s'evmMaR`z*WE$<,["^2)I8o?jkx/d^=dMa$GD(s6[p|npE}r0?)qQ7H *3S2vbK66POj?=%pCn?Bp}D/3A{`-.v0=%L9emS+|Pc91$EP0-;i\ON*p;Mwp$tt3wO~g1Z W.mIz'n~$U&uIM9ix=\1=~""=W?t$3b)>`foC8+3g$m2l;^D$?i}WI(Uxc@THJ9OBbk3g6 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1167 Lines: 33 Thomas Riemer wrote to me in email: > Have you by any chance built 1.3.62 for the decstation? I have, to > no avail. I made a few mods, but even so... when I load up the > kernel it just quietly exits. This would seem to be due to the 2.6.2 binutils you're probably using. I have been using some 2.5.1 binutils I compiled here specifically for dec-ultrix cross-compiling which work well. Last night I tried to use Ralf's 2.6.2 binutils and discovered exactly the problem you mention. I will fiddle some more with it to try to see what's going on. In the meantime I could upload my binutils to Softway's ftp site if you like. Places to look for the problem if you want to try to figure it out with me: What is the start address stored in the resultant vmlinux - it should be the address of dec_entry. Try linking decstation.o at the begining instead of head.o just to see if this helps (would indicate the problem above). Try to find other bizarre reasons for the 2.6.2 binutils not doing what we expect :-) Regards, Paul "It is the lack of acceptance of diversity which threatens to destroy society, NOT the free expression of it." - Me. From Stoned.Elipot@univ-evry.fr Sun Mar 10 10:36:28 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA29557 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 10:36:26 +0100 (MET) Received: from amiante.univ-evry.fr by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA17837; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 10:35:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from bandsept.univ-evry.fr (bandsept.univ-evry.fr [192.93.214.19]) by amiante.univ-evry.fr with ESMTP (8.6.12/94.01.10); id JAA20606; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 09:48:49 +0100 Received: from localhost.univ-evry.fr (localhost.univ-evry.fr [127.0.0.1]) by bandsept.univ-evry.fr with SMTP (8.6.12/94.01.26); id KAA10983; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 10:34:41 +0100 Message-Id: <199603100934.KAA10983@bandsept.univ-evry.fr> To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Cc: tor@spacetec.no Subject: Re: M700-10 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Mar 1996 18:49:21 +0100." <199603091749.SAA15220@pallas.spacetec.no> X-It: bandsept (wrong OS, but right CPU) X-Mailer: MH 6.8.3, MH-E 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 10:34:35 +0100 From: Stoned Elipot Content-Length: 3075 Lines: 70 Hi Tor, >>>>> "Tor" == Tor Arntsen writes: Tor> Hi, I've kept a bare-bone Olivetti M700-10 around for a while, Tor> collecting dust, but finally I bought some RAM, borrowed a floppy Tor> drive etc. and tried to boot MILO on it. I followed the It seems that it's the usual place where we can find target for Linux/MIPS, my Oily was in a trash box! :) [SNIP] Tor> Linux/MIPS FAQ as supported this shouldn't be too surprising I Tor> guess, but it was encouraging anyway :-) Yeah, it's always nice to see something new on such a box ! Tor> I understand there is a mailing list at fnet.fr? Is Tor> linux-mips@fnet.fr the mailing list itself? In the following I'm Tor> assuming that it is, I hope this is ok.. (I've been on the vger Tor> list for a long time, but there is no activity there.) linux-mips@fnet.fr is the developper mailing list, I understand from your mail that you're willing to help. So I had tor@spacetec.no' on it, is it ok ? ;) [SNIP] Tor> I have experimented with a Sparc IPC running SparcLinux and Tor> mounting everything over NFS, so something similar is what I had Tor> in mind for the NE2000 board with the M700-10. Luc and I had tried to use a DEC DEPCA ethernet adapter in my Oily with no success, I guess there is some problem with the DMA proto driver written once by Andy. For SCSI Ralf you tell us once that someone was on it, is it still true ? [SNIP] Tor> space there). Are there any problems with cross-compiling for Tor> little-endian on a big-endian system? I guess it is no problem Tor> these days, but I remember a time when it used to be.. I'll just Tor> go ahead I guess, and then I will know soon enough :-) (I've Tor> picked up diffs for binutils and gcc, and some more stuff, from Tor> the ftp directory.) Please go ahead, it should be okay. Tor> As the M700-10 is an EISA machine there are a few things I'm Tor> uncertain about. According to the manual every board has to be Tor> configured in, even ISA boards. The manual indicates that there Tor> should be a configuration program (SD.EXE) on one of the system Tor> diskettes. What I have for this machine is one diagnostic Tor> diskette and three user diskettes. The third one is unreadable Tor> and the two others have no such program. Anyone around with some Tor> knowledge about M700-10? I can provide you the all 4 disk - if I remember well SD.EXE on the fourth one, a 2.88Mo floppy. And regarding configuration for ISA cards in a EISA bus, well sure it's better but you don't have to: the config software in such cases is there if you're unable to set the correct IRQs, IO adresses in order to avoid conflicts with only your skill and experience :) Tor> I'm not sure yet what I could help with in the Linux/MIPS Tor> development. Probably not much as far as the kernel is [SNIP] Tor> do something for Linux/MIPS -- I'll first try to get it up and Tor> running here, some way or another. There lots of thing to do even for Oily, Luc and I are setting up things regarding such considerations. More on this tomorrow... Cheers, Stoned. From tor@spacetec.no Mon Mar 11 00:19:13 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA10348 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:19:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from pallas.spacetec.no by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA24824; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:18:40 +0100 (MET) Received: (from tor@localhost) by pallas.spacetec.no (8.7.1/8.7.1) id AAA17030 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:18:05 +0100 Message-Id: <199603102318.AAA17030@pallas.spacetec.no> From: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:18:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: Stoned Elipot "Re: M700-10" (Mar 10, 10:35) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: M700-10 Content-Length: 2034 Lines: 50 On Mar 10, 10:35, Stoned Elipot wrote: [...] >linux-mips@fnet.fr is the developper mailing list, I understand from >your mail that you're willing to help. So I had tor@spacetec.no' on >it, is it ok ? ;) Yes, thanks! [...] >I can provide you the all 4 disk - if I remember well SD.EXE on the >fourth one, a 2.88Mo floppy. And regarding configuration for ISA cards >in a EISA bus, well sure it's better but you don't have to: the config >software in such cases is there if you're unable to set the correct >IRQs, IO adresses in order to avoid conflicts with only your skill and >experience :) Ok, that explains why I couldn't read it.. I've got only 1.44 MB drives here. This floppy says 'ED' instead of 'HD' as the others. I'll just try to borrow a 2.88MB drive in case I need that utility. Now the first problem.. I have set up my cross-development environment on an SGI Challenge. I'm using gcc 2.7.2, binutils 2.6, all set up for mipsel-linuxelf, corresponding patches applied. I have also grabbed and installed the mipsel-linuxelf version of libc-951212, and linux-1.3.62.tar.gz (all from ftp.fnet.fr). This went mostly without problems, although IRIX has some annoying limits w.r.t. the size of commands arg list etc. Had to modify the .hdepend target in the main Makefile because of this. The problem I ran into during the kernel build is that gas chokes with the following message: magnum4000.S: Assembler messages: magnum4000.S:30: Error: Can not represent relocation in this object file format The line in question is /* * Get pending interrupts */ mfc0 t0,CP0_CAUSE # get pending interrupts mfc0 t1,CP0_STATUS # get enabled interrupts and t0,t1 # isolate allowed ones andi t0,0xff00 # isolate pending bits ---> beqz t0,spurious_interrupt sll t0,16 # delay slot Regards, Tor From linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Mon Mar 11 15:51:46 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA23916 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:51:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from chenas.inria.fr by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA09586; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:51:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) by chenas.inria.fr (5.65c8d/92.02.29) via EUnet-France id AA01805; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:51:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from flake.uni-koblenz.de (linux@flake.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.37]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA17061 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:38:48 +0100 From: Systemkennung Linux Message-Id: <199603111438.PAA17061@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by flake.uni-koblenz.de (4.1/KO-2.0) id AA02888; Mon, 11 Mar 96 15:42:02 +0100 Subject: Re: M700-10 To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:42:02 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199603102318.AAA17030@pallas.spacetec.no> from "Tor Arntsen" at Mar 11, 96 00:18:04 am Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1966 Lines: 46 Hi, > Ok, that explains why I couldn't read it.. I've got only 1.44 MB drives here. > This floppy says 'ED' instead of 'HD' as the others. I'll just try to > borrow a 2.88MB drive in case I need that utility. If everything fails I could send you an image of the 2.88mb disk. > Now the first problem.. > > I have set up my cross-development environment on an SGI Challenge. > I'm using gcc 2.7.2, binutils 2.6, all set up for mipsel-linuxelf, > corresponding patches applied. > I have also grabbed and installed the mipsel-linuxelf version of libc-951212, > and linux-1.3.62.tar.gz (all from ftp.fnet.fr). > This went mostly without problems, although IRIX has some annoying limits > w.r.t. the size of commands arg list etc. Had to modify the .hdepend target > in the main Makefile because of this. > > The problem I ran into during the kernel build is that gas chokes with the > following message: > > magnum4000.S: Assembler messages: > magnum4000.S:30: Error: Can not represent relocation in this object file format > > The line in question is > /* > * Get pending interrupts > */ > mfc0 t0,CP0_CAUSE # get pending interrupts > mfc0 t1,CP0_STATUS # get enabled interrupts > and t0,t1 # isolate allowed ones > andi t0,0xff00 # isolate pending bits > ---> beqz t0,spurious_interrupt > sll t0,16 # delay slot This is a branch to an external target address. Unfortunately this can not be represented in ELF. The switch of Linux/MIPS to ELF isn't complete yet. You still need the a.out compiler to compile the kernel; *all* user code is ELF. Though I promise this alredy for some time: I'll fix the ELF problems with the kernel as soon as I can and will then eleminate the a.out support in compiler/linker. Ralf From tor@spacetec.no Mon Mar 11 16:11:49 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA24356 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:11:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from pallas.spacetec.no by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA10048; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:11:17 +0100 (MET) Received: (from tor@localhost) by pallas.spacetec.no (8.7.1/8.7.1) id QAA17635 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:10:51 +0100 Message-Id: <199603111510.QAA17635@pallas.spacetec.no> From: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 16:10:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: Systemkennung Linux "Re: M700-10" (Mar 11, 15:51) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: M700-10 Content-Length: 719 Lines: 19 On Mar 11, 15:51, Systemkennung Linux wrote: >If everything fails I could send you an image of the 2.88mb disk. Thanks a lot, I'll ask for it if/when I'll need it if I can't find a drive.. >> ---> beqz t0,spurious_interrupt >This is a branch to an external target address. Unfortunately this can >not be represented in ELF. > >The switch of Linux/MIPS to ELF isn't complete yet. You still need the >a.out compiler to compile the kernel; *all* user code is ELF. Though >I promise this alredy for some time: I'll fix the ELF problems with the >kernel as soon as I can and will then eleminate the a.out support in >compiler/linker. Ok, I'll build myself some SGI/Linux aout tools and try again. Tor From paul@suite.sw.oz.au Tue Mar 12 08:25:53 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA08637 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:25:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from staff.cs.su.OZ.AU by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA23784; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:25:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from suite.sw.oz.au by swallow.sw.oz.au with SMTP id GAA08428; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 06:25:41 GMT (8.6.10/Unixware) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for ) Received: by suite.sw.oz.au id AA01115; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:25:33 +1000 (5.65c/1.34) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for linux-mips@fnet.fr) From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) Message-Id: <199603120725.AA01115@suite.sw.oz.au> Subject: DEC compilation (was Re: M700-10) To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 18:25:32 +1100 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199603111438.PAA17061@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> from "Systemkennung Linux" at Mar 11, 96 03:42:02 pm Organization: Softway Pty Ltd X-Face: U)Kb/c%d9`JI>Y>s'evmMaR`z*WE$<,["^2)I8o?jkx/d^=dMa$GD(s6[p|npE}r0?)qQ7H *3S2vbK66POj?=%pCn?Bp}D/3A{`-.v0=%L9emS+|Pc91$EP0-;i\ON*p;Mwp$tt3wO~g1Z W.mIz'n~$U&uIM9ix=\1=~""=W?t$3b)>`foC8+3g$m2l;^D$?i}WI(Uxc@THJ9OBbk3g6 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1178 Lines: 30 Ralf, in response to questions about the Olivetti says: > The switch of Linux/MIPS to ELF isn't complete yet. You still need the > a.out compiler to compile the kernel; *all* user code is ELF. Though > I promise this alredy for some time: I'll fix the ELF problems with the > kernel as soon as I can and will then eleminate the a.out support in > compiler/linker. Ummm... I noticed that one significant difference when compiling the DEC kernel with 2.6.2 is that all intermediate binaries (.o's) generated by as are in ELF format according to file... that and the resultant vmlinux when linked is: mipsel executable not stripped rather than the: mipsel executable - version 2.11 I'll keep checking a few things... Paul _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul M. Antoine, Net: paul@sw.oz.au Softway Pty Ltd WWW: www.softway.com.au PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, Australia Tel: +61 2 698 2322 Level 2, 79 Myrtle St, Chippendale, NSW 2008, Australia Fax: +61 2 699 9174 "It is the lack of acceptance of diversity which threatens to destroy society, NOT the free expression of it." - Me. From paul@suite.sw.oz.au Tue Mar 12 08:43:33 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA08863 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:43:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from staff.cs.su.OZ.AU by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA23943; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:42:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from suite.sw.oz.au by swallow.sw.oz.au with SMTP id GAA08731; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 06:43:11 GMT (8.6.10/Unixware) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for ) Received: by suite.sw.oz.au id AA01362; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:42:57 +1000 (5.65c/1.34) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for linux-mips@fnet.fr) From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) Message-Id: <199603120742.AA01362@suite.sw.oz.au> Subject: More DEC Compilation info... To: linux-mips@fnet.fr (Linux MIPS mailing list) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 18:42:57 +1100 (EST) Organization: Softway Pty Ltd X-Face: U)Kb/c%d9`JI>Y>s'evmMaR`z*WE$<,["^2)I8o?jkx/d^=dMa$GD(s6[p|npE}r0?)qQ7H *3S2vbK66POj?=%pCn?Bp}D/3A{`-.v0=%L9emS+|Pc91$EP0-;i\ON*p;Mwp$tt3wO~g1Z W.mIz'n~$U&uIM9ix=\1=~""=W?t$3b)>`foC8+3g$m2l;^D$?i}WI(Uxc@THJ9OBbk3g6 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 919 Lines: 20 Hi folks, I have a bit more info re compiling the DEC kernel... if you tell cc to produce little-endian using -EL, and as to output the intermediate files in ecoff with -oformat ecoff-littlemips (you need to uncomment the ASFLAGS line in arch/mips/Makefile and add this), AND you tell ld to accept input in ecoff with -b ecoff-littlemips, THEN the resultant kernel is usable when built with 2.6.2 binutils! So, all we need do is alter the Makefiles a bit... Paul _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul M. Antoine, Net: paul@sw.oz.au Softway Pty Ltd WWW: www.softway.com.au PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, Australia Tel: +61 2 698 2322 Level 2, 79 Myrtle St, Chippendale, NSW 2008, Australia Fax: +61 2 699 9174 "It is the lack of acceptance of diversity which threatens to destroy society, NOT the free expression of it." - Me. From kah@terma.dk Tue Mar 12 09:22:18 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09471 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:22:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from ns.dknet.dk by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA24474; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:21:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from terma (uucp@localhost) by ns.dknet.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id JAA14166 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:22:10 +0100 Message-Id: <199603120822.JAA14166@ns.dknet.dk> Received: from lulu (lulu.terma.dk) by lise.terma.dk; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:55:07 +0100 From: Kai Harrekilde-Petersen Received: by lulu; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:01:31 +0100 Subject: Unsubscribe To: linux-mips@fnet.fr (Linux/MIPS mailing list) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 9:01:31 MET Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Content-Length: 530 Lines: 17 I really hate to send a mial like this to the list, but I've unable to reach Luc, apparently. Can I *please* get unsubscribed? Thanks. It's not that the Linux/MIPS project is uninteresting, but I'm changing jobs and so I wont have the HW to work with. My new email will be khp@dolphinics.no, and it'll be valid from 1st of April. Regards and good luck to all, Kai -- Kai Harrekilde-Petersen Linux: The choice of a GNU generation Terma Elektronik, Surveillance Systems Division #include From linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Tue Mar 12 09:56:11 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09838 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:56:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA25067; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:55:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from flake.uni-koblenz.de (linux@flake.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.37]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA13154 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:51:51 +0100 From: Systemkennung Linux Message-Id: <199603120851.JAA13154@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by flake.uni-koblenz.de (4.1/KO-2.0) id AA05981; Tue, 12 Mar 96 09:54:59 +0100 Subject: Re: More DEC Compilation info... To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:54:59 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199603120742.AA01362@suite.sw.oz.au> from "Paul Antoine" at Mar 12, 96 06:42:57 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 646 Lines: 16 Hi folks, > I have a bit more info re compiling the DEC kernel... if you tell > cc to produce little-endian using -EL, and as to output the > intermediate files in ecoff with -oformat ecoff-littlemips (you need to > uncomment the ASFLAGS line in arch/mips/Makefile and add this), AND > you tell ld to accept input in ecoff with -b ecoff-littlemips, THEN > the resultant kernel is usable when built with 2.6.2 binutils! > > So, all we need do is alter the Makefiles a bit... It's still one of those nice binutils bugs that I've been chasing again and again and again. Looks like BFD was written to be close to undebugeable :-( Ralf From kah@terma.dk Tue Mar 12 10:59:14 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10678 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:59:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from ns.dknet.dk by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA26150; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:58:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from terma (uucp@localhost) by ns.dknet.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id KAA25186; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:52:24 +0100 Message-Id: <199603120952.KAA25186@ns.dknet.dk> Received: from lulu (lulu.terma.dk) by lise.terma.dk; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:31:10 +0100 From: Kai Harrekilde-Petersen Received: by lulu; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:37:33 +0100 Subject: Re: More DEC Compilation info... To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 10:37:33 MET Cc: linux-mips@fnet.fr (Linux/MIPS mailing list), sde@algor.co.uk In-Reply-To: <199603120851.JAA13154@informatik.uni-koblenz.de>; from "Systemkennung Linux" at Mar 12, 96 9:54 am Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Content-Length: 764 Lines: 22 Hi, Just putting my $0.02 in before I go. > It's still one of those nice binutils bugs that I've been chasing again > and again and again. Looks like BFD was written to be close to > undebugeable :-( How about talking to Algorithmics (sde@algor.co.uk). They have a functioning MIPS toolchain, called SDE-MIPS, based on GNU. I saw Alan Cox mention on linux.dev.kernel what he (they?) use Algorithmics' toolchain, because they work, and FSF's doesn't. Algortihmics have feed their changes back to FSF, but we all know how they work :-( If you contact them, give a hello from me :-) Regards, Kai -- Kai Harrekilde-Petersen Linux: The choice of a GNU generation Terma Elektronik, Surveillance Systems Division #include From kadlec.peter@rtoms2a1.gymrc.mts.dec.com Tue Mar 12 16:38:38 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA15665 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 16:38:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from ns1.digital.fr by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA02247; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 16:38:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from vbormc.vbo.dec.com (vbormc.vbo.dec.com [16.36.208.94]) by ns1.digital.fr (8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id QAA29229 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 16:38:47 +0100 Received: (from root@localhost) by vbormc.vbo.dec.com (8.7.3/8.7) with UMC id PAA07140 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:30:05 +0100 Received: from umc by vbormc.vbo.dec.com via MR/VALMTS with conversational-MRIF; Tue, 12 Mar 96 15:30:04 +0100 Posted: Tue, 12 Mar 96 14:35:01 +0100 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 14:27:39 +0100 Sender: kadlec.peter@rtoms2a1.gymrc.mts.dec.com From: "Peter Kadlec @RTO" Message-Id: <65534121306991/3250290@GYMRC> App-Message-Id: Precedence: Special-Delivery To: linux-mips@fnet.fr.internet.mts.dec.com Subject: Linux for DecStation 5000/25 Msg-Class: ALL-IN-1 IOS Server for OpenVMS V3.1 BL121 (US) ENGLISH 17-JUN-1994 Sensitivity: Personal Content-Length: 239 Lines: 10 Hi, I have been reading up on the state of your project... and I have a specific question: how far does your port support a DECStation 5000/25 ? and when do you think you'll have a working kernel? I appreciate your help, Peter Kadlec From Hatt_Bernard/HEMEL_ENGINEERING_SERVERS@uniplex.co.uk Tue Mar 12 15:05:28 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA14430 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:05:26 +0100 (MET) From: Hatt_Bernard/HEMEL_ENGINEERING_SERVERS@uniplex.co.uk Received: from gatekeeper.waldorf-gmbh.de by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA00706; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:04:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from skippy.uniplex-net (root@skippy.uniplex.co.uk [194.70.248.1]) by gatekeeper.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA30215 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:02:51 +0100 Received: from bigblue.uniplex-net (root@bigblue.uniplex-net [89.8.1.30]) by skippy.uniplex-net (8.7.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA14570 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 13:51:46 GMT Received: from by bigblue.uniplex-net (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA174421; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 13:57:46 GMT X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 13:57:37 +0000 Message-Id: Subject: Linux/MIPS Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux@waldorf-gmbh.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="cmcd91aa" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 219 Lines: 8 In an old faq file (dated sept '94) there is mention of a port of Linux to the MIPS R4000, if this still exists, what's the current status and where can I find the lastest FAQ ? Thanks, Bernard Hatt bmh@uniplex.co.uk From tor@spacetec.no Tue Mar 12 20:19:37 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA18660 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:19:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from pallas.spacetec.no by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA05893; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:18:59 +0100 (MET) Received: (from tor@localhost) by pallas.spacetec.no (8.7.1/8.7.1) id UAA21338 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:18:45 +0100 Message-Id: <199603121918.UAA21338@pallas.spacetec.no> From: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:18:44 +0100 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: M700-10 problems.. Content-Length: 3236 Lines: 68 Hi all, I ran into some problems when booting vmlinux (1.3.62) on my M700-10. On an SGI I have built and installed gcc 2.7.2 and binutils 2.6 (with patches) as mipsel-linuxaout, for kernel cross-compilation. I put milo and the compiled vmlinux on a floppy. I start milo from ARC with 'a:milo', and up to and including the 'press enter to start Linux' everything looks good. What happens during the linux boot seems to be that all I/O probing fails.. I have two different ethernet adapters. One is a non-jumpered NE2000, and the other is a 3c503/16 jumpered to PIO. This is the one I would like to use, as the NE2000 is twisted pair and my TP converter doesn't work. I have tried to compile the kernel with driver for one, for the other, and for both, with and without boards installed. The autoprobing fails in all cases. At this stage I also got an 'illegal kernel paging request' (or something like that, after the change below it disappeared and I don't have a syslog :-) What I then tried was to hardcode the I/O address for the 3c503 at the start of el2_probe(), apparently it then found it. (Can parameters be passed through milo? I tried a few things, based on what I saw in the sources, but it didn't make any difference that I could see.) The kernel paging error is gone. (I also threw in a bunch of printk's here and there, trying to find out where the problem was.) What now fails is the autoirq_setup(), it is called four times and then it gives up. Then root-nfs gives up and asks me to put in a root floppy and press ENTER. I've prepared one, but the keyboard doesn't work! Here is the booting sequence, typed in by hand (with possible mistakes because my monitor is *real* bad in 1280x1024): Console: colour MIPS-G364 160x64, 1 virtual console (max 63) Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 49.87 BogoMIPS VDMA: R4030 DMA pagetables initalized. Memory: 31472k/32768k available (620k kernel code, 668k data) Swansea [snip] NET3.033 for Linux 1.3.58 NET3: [snip].. Swansea [snip] TCP/IP.. IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable. Linux version 1.3.62 (tor@lrdpf) (gcc version 2.7.2) [snip] initialize_kbd: reset kbd failed, not POR. Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M floppy0: no floppy controllers found [here I used to get the kernel paging request problem] [now it finds the 3c503 because of my hardcoded I/O address:] 3c503.c:v1.10 9/23/93 [snip] eth0: 3c503 at i/o base 0x330, node 02 60 8c 7b 70 ac, using internal xcvr. eth0: 3c503-PIO, 16kB RAM, using programmed I/O (REJUMPER for SHARED MEMORY) [The above is correct, including the ethernet address. So it did read it..] [now the autoirq_setup fails] NFS: Unable to open at least one network device [I enabled some debug output] Root-NFS: Unable to contact NFS server for root fs, using /dev/fd0 instead NFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER And here I'm stuck, apparently because the initialize_kbd failed above. In addition there is this "floppy0: no floppy controllers found". My keyboard is a perfectly ok PS/2 compatible one, I'm using a similar one on my Linux PC, and it works fine with milo. Suggestions are welcome.. is my gcc sick (it looks good but..), or have I managed to overlook something silly? Tor From linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Tue Mar 12 21:14:15 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA19434 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:14:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA06667; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:12:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from ozzy (ozzy.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.5.8]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA14495 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:09:18 +0100 From: Systemkennung Linux Message-Id: <199603122009.VAA14495@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by ozzy (SMI-8.6/KO-2.0) id VAA02130; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:12:12 +0100 Subject: Re: M700-10 problems.. To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:12:12 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199603121918.UAA21338@pallas.spacetec.no> from "Tor Arntsen" at Mar 12, 96 08:18:44 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4160 Lines: 87 Hi again, > I ran into some problems when booting vmlinux (1.3.62) on my M700-10. > On an SGI I have built and installed gcc 2.7.2 and binutils 2.6 (with patches) > as mipsel-linuxaout, for kernel cross-compilation. I put milo and the compiled > vmlinux on a floppy. I start milo from ARC with 'a:milo', and up to and > including the 'press enter to start Linux' everything looks good. > > What happens during the linux boot seems to be that all I/O probing fails.. > I have two different ethernet adapters. One is a non-jumpered NE2000, and > the other is a 3c503/16 jumpered to PIO. This is the one I would like to use, > as the NE2000 is twisted pair and my TP converter doesn't work. I have tried > to compile the kernel with driver for one, for the other, and for both, with > and without boards installed. The autoprobing fails in all cases. > At this stage I also got an 'illegal kernel paging request' (or something > like that, after the change below it disappeared and I don't have a syslog :-) - The autoprobing fails because I don't enable the (E)ISA interrupts on Magnum4000/Olivetti M700-10 just because this stuff is untested. To enable the interrupts look into init_IRQ() in arch/mips/kernel/irq.c near the top the function. I think there is still a bug specific to Magnum4000/Olivetti M700-10; Acer seems to work rocksolid. - illegal kernel paging request: this wasn't supposed to happen ... > What I then tried was to hardcode the I/O address for the 3c503 at the > start of el2_probe(), apparently it then found it. (Can parameters be passed > through milo? I tried a few things, based on what I saw in the sources, but > it didn't make any difference that I could see.) The kernel paging error is > gone. > > (I also threw in a bunch of printk's here and there, trying to find out where > the problem was.) > > What now fails is the autoirq_setup(), it is called four times and then > it gives up. > Then root-nfs gives up and asks me to put in a root floppy and press ENTER. > I've prepared one, but the keyboard doesn't work! The keyboard problem is known and fixed in my developement source tree. Look into drivers/char/keyboard.c and increase the value of #define TIMEOUT_CONST 500000 to 1000000 or so. This is just a timing problem with the keyboard driver; the MIPS box is too fast ... > Here is the booting sequence, typed in by hand (with possible mistakes because > my monitor is *real* bad in 1280x1024): > > Console: colour MIPS-G364 160x64, 1 virtual console (max 63) > Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 49.87 BogoMIPS > VDMA: R4030 DMA pagetables initalized. > Memory: 31472k/32768k available (620k kernel code, 668k data) > Swansea [snip] NET3.033 for Linux 1.3.58 > NET3: [snip].. > Swansea [snip] TCP/IP.. > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP > Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable. > Linux version 1.3.62 (tor@lrdpf) (gcc version 2.7.2) [snip] > initialize_kbd: reset kbd failed, not POR. > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > floppy0: no floppy controllers found > [here I used to get the kernel paging request problem] > [now it finds the 3c503 because of my hardcoded I/O address:] > 3c503.c:v1.10 9/23/93 [snip] > eth0: 3c503 at i/o base 0x330, node 02 60 8c 7b 70 ac, using internal xcvr. > eth0: 3c503-PIO, 16kB RAM, using programmed I/O (REJUMPER for SHARED MEMORY) > [The above is correct, including the ethernet address. So it did read it..] > [now the autoirq_setup fails] > NFS: Unable to open at least one network device [I enabled some debug output] > Root-NFS: Unable to contact NFS server for root fs, using /dev/fd0 instead > NFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER > > And here I'm stuck, apparently because the initialize_kbd failed above. > In addition there is this "floppy0: no floppy controllers found". *Hmmpf* This one seems to be another Magnum/Olivetti specific problem. > My keyboard is a perfectly ok PS/2 compatible one, I'm using a similar one > on my Linux PC, and it works fine with milo. > > Suggestions are welcome.. is my gcc sick (it looks good but..), or have I > managed to overlook something silly? No, so far it really looks ok, Ralf From paul@suite.sw.oz.au Tue Mar 12 23:26:18 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA21188 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:26:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from staff.cs.su.OZ.AU by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA13556; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:25:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from suite.sw.oz.au by swallow.sw.oz.au with SMTP id VAA25533; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:26:12 GMT (8.6.10/Unixware) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for ) Received: by suite.sw.oz.au id AA07294; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:25:27 +1000 (5.65c/1.34) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for kadlec.peter@rtoms2a1.gymrc.mts.dec.com) From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) Message-Id: <199603122225.AA07294@suite.sw.oz.au> Subject: Re: Linux for DecStation 5000/25 To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:25:26 +1100 (EST) Cc: kadlec.peter@rtoms2a1.gymrc.mts.dec.com In-Reply-To: <65534121306991/3250290@GYMRC> from "Peter Kadlec @RTO" at Mar 12, 96 02:27:39 pm Organization: Softway Pty Ltd X-Face: U)Kb/c%d9`JI>Y>s'evmMaR`z*WE$<,["^2)I8o?jkx/d^=dMa$GD(s6[p|npE}r0?)qQ7H *3S2vbK66POj?=%pCn?Bp}D/3A{`-.v0=%L9emS+|Pc91$EP0-;i\ON*p;Mwp$tt3wO~g1Z W.mIz'n~$U&uIM9ix=\1=~""=W?t$3b)>`foC8+3g$m2l;^D$?i}WI(Uxc@THJ9OBbk3g6 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1559 Lines: 38 Hi Peter, > I have been reading up on the state of your project... and I have a > specific question: how far does your port support a DECStation > 5000/25 ? Well, the FAQ mentions support for 5000/2x where x can be 0 or 5... and as the 25 is just a faster version of the 20, it will be completely supported. > and when do you think you'll have a working kernel? Ummm... good question. Now that the source has been released, I'm hoping that several people will begin to contribute which should speed things up. You're no doubt aware that it's a part-time endeavour, so it's rather dependent upon how much of the contributor's personal time we get. > I appreciate your help, Well, as you're at DEC, perhaps you could help us? In particular, the MACH sources mention a document that describes the 5000/20 and 5000/25 hardware in quite some detail. This document is not available on DEC's public web server - are you able to access this? It would make life a *whole* lot simpler, and the port a whole lot faster, if we could get DEC to release it (as they presumeably did to the MACH team). Regards, Paul _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul M. Antoine, Net: paul@sw.oz.au Softway Pty Ltd WWW: www.softway.com.au PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, Australia Tel: +61 2 698 2322 Level 2, 79 Myrtle St, Chippendale, NSW 2008, Australia Fax: +61 2 699 9174 "It is the lack of acceptance of diversity which threatens to destroy society, NOT the free expression of it." - Me. From paul@suite.sw.oz.au Wed Mar 13 07:11:40 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA28857 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:11:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from staff.cs.su.OZ.AU by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA19769; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:10:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from suite.sw.oz.au by swallow.sw.oz.au with SMTP id FAA06742; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 05:11:43 GMT (8.6.10/Unixware) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for ) Received: by suite.sw.oz.au id AA15190; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:11:02 +1000 (5.65c/1.34) (from paul@suite.sw.oz.au for linux-mips@fnet.fr) From: paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) Message-Id: <199603130611.AA15190@suite.sw.oz.au> Subject: Re: DECstation Linux/MIPS To: afritz@starlink.com (Adam Fritzler) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 17:11:02 +1100 (EST) Cc: linux-mips@fnet.fr (Linux MIPS mailing list) In-Reply-To: <199603130546.WAA18921@orion.starlink.com> from "Adam Fritzler" at Mar 12, 96 10:31:17 pm Organization: Softway Pty Ltd X-Face: U)Kb/c%d9`JI>Y>s'evmMaR`z*WE$<,["^2)I8o?jkx/d^=dMa$GD(s6[p|npE}r0?)qQ7H *3S2vbK66POj?=%pCn?Bp}D/3A{`-.v0=%L9emS+|Pc91$EP0-;i\ON*p;Mwp$tt3wO~g1Z W.mIz'n~$U&uIM9ix=\1=~""=W?t$3b)>`foC8+3g$m2l;^D$?i}WI(Uxc@THJ9OBbk3g6 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP3 *ALPHA*] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2528 Lines: 65 Adam wrote: > >> I was also wandering if Linux/MIPS would still work if I was to > >> purchase the R4000 upgrade daughterboard (from DEC) for it? > > > >I am responsible for most of the code at the moment, and have been > >aware of the availability of such daughterboards for a while so I've > >*tried* to make sure this will work. > > > >As I don't have one, and have never met anyone who's bought one, or > >even knows how much one might cost, I can't tell you for sure if it > >will work! > > I checked on the prices from DEC a while back--they run about $3995 (!). Doesn't sound worth it to me... > I would think it should work because all the motherboard hardware > would be the same, except for the processor-specific code (which you > obviously already have for the R4000). Are the R4000s backward -compat. > with R3000 code? Up to a point. I have tried to retain the option of compiling the MMU code for the R4000 when the kernel is otherwise configured for the DECStations... so this should not be a problem. In fact, it may allow us to write 64-bit applications for such DECStations (yetch!) > >Hmmm... the lack of programming skills probably leaves you with beta > >testing responsibilities :-) > > Sounds like fun! :) Always a barrel of laughs :-) > I would also like to say that I did get one of the DECstation kernels and I > had it booting off my i486 Linux 1.3.68 machine within 30minutes with your > instructions. (I'd never had any experience with tftp/bootp :) Thank you for the compliment! > BTW, do these kernels compile only under the cross-dev tools or do they > compile under ULTRIX too? Currently under cross-dev tools... though those same tools (gcc etc.) compiled for Ultrix ought to work as well. > Also, on your DECstation page you mentioned needing the URLs for the BSD > DECstation ports--I had these laying around: > > NetBSD/pmax http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/pmax/index.html Thanks, this one seems very interesting, so I've added it. The other one was hopeless, as you suggested. Regards, Paul _______________________________________________________________________________ Paul M. Antoine, Net: paul@sw.oz.au Softway Pty Ltd WWW: www.softway.com.au PO Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, Australia Tel: +61 2 698 2322 Level 2, 79 Myrtle St, Chippendale, NSW 2008, Australia Fax: +61 2 699 9174 "It is the lack of acceptance of diversity which threatens to destroy society, NOT the free expression of it." - Me. From Stoned.Elipot@univ-evry.fr Wed Mar 13 10:23:03 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA01446 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:23:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from amiante.univ-evry.fr by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA22360; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:22:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from bandsept.univ-evry.fr (bandsept.univ-evry.fr [192.93.214.19]) by amiante.univ-evry.fr with ESMTP (8.6.12/94.01.10); id JAA01012; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:35:33 +0100 Received: from localhost.univ-evry.fr (localhost.univ-evry.fr [127.0.0.1]) by bandsept.univ-evry.fr with SMTP (8.6.12/94.01.26); id KAA03250; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:21:23 +0100 Message-Id: <199603130921.KAA03250@bandsept.univ-evry.fr> To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: M700-10 problems.. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Mar 1996 20:18:44 +0100." <199603121918.UAA21338@pallas.spacetec.no> X-It: bandsept (wrong OS, but right CPU) X-Mailer: MH 6.8.3, MH-E 5.0.2 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:21:14 +0100 From: Stoned Elipot Content-Length: 545 Lines: 14 >>>>> "Tor" == Tor Arntsen writes: [SNIP] Tor> Here is the booting sequence, typed in by hand (with possible Tor> mistakes because my monitor is *real* bad in 1280x1024): I'll put Olivetti floppies somewhere under ftp://ftp.fnet.fr/linux-mips/private tonigh, SD.EXE will allow you to switch the video resolution. I should release milo 0.27 in few days, I'll throw in the handling for kernel command line, and well video mode setting for the Magnum/Oily video board was planned but still in a proto-state... Cheers, Stoned. From beurton@nil.fnet.fr Wed Mar 13 13:04:36 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04191 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:04:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from nil.fnet.fr by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA25309; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:04:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from nil.fnet.fr (localhost.fnet.fr [127.0.0.1]) by nil.fnet.fr (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA22359 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:59:20 GMT Message-Id: <199603131259.MAA22359@nil.fnet.fr> To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: M700-10 problems.. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:21:14 WET." <199603130921.KAA03250@bandsept.univ-evry.fr> X-Mailer: MH 6.8.3 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:59:19 +0000 From: Luc Beurton Content-Length: 269 Lines: 8 > I'll put Olivetti floppies somewhere under > ftp://ftp.fnet.fr/linux-mips/private tonigh, SD.EXE will allow you to > switch the video resolution. Well, you can find on ftp://ftp.fnet.fr/linux-mips/private/Incoming/m700 the 4 disks about M700-10 installation . Luc. From linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Wed Mar 13 18:30:57 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA08538 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:30:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA01164; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:27:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from flake.uni-koblenz.de (linux@flake.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.37]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA19404 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:23:42 +0100 From: Systemkennung Linux Message-Id: <199603131723.SAA19404@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by flake.uni-koblenz.de (4.1/KO-2.0) id AA15492; Wed, 13 Mar 96 18:26:40 +0100 Subject: CeBIT To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:26:40 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 120 Lines: 6 Hi all, I'll be at the CeBIT the next three days. Anybody also there? Would be great if we could meet there! Ralf From imp@rover.village.org Mon Mar 18 18:44:27 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA22005 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 18:44:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from rover.village.org by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA06070; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 18:44:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA27450 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:43:53 -0700 Message-Id: <199603181743.KAA27450@rover.village.org> To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: M700-10 problems.. In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:12:12 +0100 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:43:52 -0700 From: Warner Losh Content-Length: 901 Lines: 23 : The keyboard problem is known and fixed in my developement source tree. : Look into drivers/char/keyboard.c and increase the value of : : #define TIMEOUT_CONST 500000 : : to 1000000 or so. This is just a timing problem with the keyboard driver; : the MIPS box is too fast ... Also, on some machines the keyboard boots in the wrong mode, but you get unknown key scans when that happens, so this likely isn't the problem. There has got to be a better way for the keyboard driver to cope... : > And here I'm stuck, apparently because the initialize_kbd failed above. : > In addition there is this "floppy0: no floppy controllers found". : : *Hmmpf* This one seems to be another Magnum/Olivetti specific problem. I saw that one before I got all the interrupt crap resolved on the Deskstation. If the floppy controller's interrupts aren't enabled, then that would cause this problem. Warner From linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Mon Mar 18 21:55:42 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA24734 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 21:55:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.4.1]) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA15217; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 21:55:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from flake.uni-koblenz.de (linux@flake.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.37]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA01011 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 21:51:37 +0100 From: Systemkennung Linux Message-Id: <199603182051.VAA01011@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by flake.uni-koblenz.de (4.1/KO-2.0) id AA16642; Mon, 18 Mar 96 21:53:57 +0100 Subject: Re: M700-10 problems.. To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 21:53:56 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199603181743.KAA27450@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Mar 18, 96 10:43:52 am Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 472 Lines: 14 Hi, > : > And here I'm stuck, apparently because the initialize_kbd failed above. > : > In addition there is this "floppy0: no floppy controllers found". > : > : *Hmmpf* This one seems to be another Magnum/Olivetti specific problem. > > I saw that one before I got all the interrupt crap resolved on the > Deskstation. If the floppy controller's interrupts aren't enabled, > then that would cause this problem. Floppy interrupts are supposed to be enabled. Ralf From tor@spacetec.no Mon Mar 18 22:08:33 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA25248 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 22:08:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from pallas.spacetec.no by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA18033; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 22:08:19 +0100 (MET) Received: (from tor@localhost) by pallas.spacetec.no (8.7.1/8.7.1) id WAA11552 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 22:06:48 +0100 Message-Id: <199603182106.WAA11552@pallas.spacetec.no> From: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 22:06:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh "Re: M700-10 problems.." (Mar 18, 18:45) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: M700-10 problems.. Content-Length: 1654 Lines: 43 >: The keyboard problem is known and fixed in my developement source tree. >: Look into drivers/char/keyboard.c and increase the value of >: >: #define TIMEOUT_CONST 500000 >: >: to 1000000 or so. This is just a timing problem with the keyboard driver; >: the MIPS box is too fast ... Yes, this cured the problem for me. Thanks! On Mar 18, 18:45, Warner Losh wrote: >Also, on some machines the keyboard boots in the wrong mode, but you >get unknown key scans when that happens, so this likely isn't the >problem. There has got to be a better way for the keyboard driver to >cope... This looks ok here, I get the US keyboard of course but I'll cross that river when I get far enough.. >: > And here I'm stuck, apparently because the initialize_kbd failed above. >: > In addition there is this "floppy0: no floppy controllers found". >: >: *Hmmpf* This one seems to be another Magnum/Olivetti specific problem. > >I saw that one before I got all the interrupt crap resolved on the >Deskstation. If the floppy controller's interrupts aren't enabled, >then that would cause this problem. This problem is gone too, however I had to pause work for several days so I'm not really sure which change I did that affected this :-) I'll backtrack and check. I have stopped my tests with the 3c503 for the moment, trying to use a root floppy instead. I get a strange error: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. EXT2-fs error (device 02:00): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #12: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=40, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 The floppy looks fine on Linux/x86. I'll see if I can find out more. Tor From imp@rover.village.org Tue Mar 19 11:42:54 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA01115 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:42:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from rover.village.org by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA13718; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 00:17:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA28416 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:17:16 -0700 Message-Id: <199603182317.QAA28416@rover.village.org> To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: M700-10 problems.. In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 18 Mar 1996 22:06:48 +0100 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:17:16 -0700 From: Warner Losh Content-Length: 1080 Lines: 21 : VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. : EXT2-fs error (device 02:00): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #12: : rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=40, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 Same problem here (except mine was due to the fs code thinking the directory spanned multiple blocks). I've discovered so far that either the same data is transferred twice, or that the second trafer doesn't happen, even though the kernel thinks that it happened. I've not had the time to go in and figure out the exact reasons for this. I do know that the kernel will checksum the blocks to the same thing (well, I added that code). Are you using a 720k floppy, or a 1.4M job? I'm using a 1.4M that I created from scratch on my FreeBSD system, but that mounts and seems to work correctly from the Linux 1.1.59 system that I have laying around on another partition of my disk. I hope to be able to shake loose some time this evening, well, later this week to look into this problem on my machine. Last week I was out in the Bay area attending classes for work. Warner From tor@spacetec.no Tue Mar 19 12:25:44 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01981 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:25:43 +0100 (MET) Received: from pallas.spacetec.no by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA07257; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:25:34 +0100 (MET) Received: (from tor@localhost) by pallas.spacetec.no (8.7.1/8.7.1) id MAA17133 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:24:10 +0100 Message-Id: <199603191124.MAA17133@pallas.spacetec.no> From: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:24:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh "Re: M700-10 problems.." (Mar 19, 11:43) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: M700-10 problems.. Content-Length: 1811 Lines: 31 On Mar 19, 11:43, Warner Losh wrote: >: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. >: EXT2-fs error (device 02:00): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #12: >: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=40, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0 > >Same problem here (except mine was due to the fs code thinking the >directory spanned multiple blocks). I've discovered so far that >either the same data is transferred twice, or that the second trafer >doesn't happen, even though the kernel thinks that it happened. I've >not had the time to go in and figure out the exact reasons for this. >I do know that the kernel will checksum the blocks to the same thing >(well, I added that code). Are you using a 720k floppy, or a 1.4M >job? I'm using a 1.4M that I created from scratch on my FreeBSD >system, but that mounts and seems to work correctly from the Linux >1.1.59 system that I have laying around on another partition of my >disk. I'm using a 1.44MB floppy disk drive, and I tried both a self-made (on Linux/x86) ext2fs 1.44MB file system, and the rhello-720k.image (just cat'ed to a formatted 1.44MB floppy). Same problem on both. From what I can find out using debugfs it looks like the 'directory #' (which is different for my two floppies) in both cases points to the /dev directory on the floppy file systems -- given that I interpret the debugfs 'ls' output correctly of course.. I'm not sure what Linux tries to read first from a root mounted file system, for all I know the /dev directory will always be the first one? If it really finds the /dev directory then the problem seems to be limited to reading the entries in the directory, not total corruption. But this is pure speculation, I should look more into this. I have limited time available at the moment, unfortunately. Tor From aleph1@dfw.net Wed Mar 20 19:57:21 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA00359 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:57:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from dfw.dfw.net by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA18950; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:57:10 +0100 (MET) Received: by dfw.dfw.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17165; Wed, 20 Mar 96 12:54:54 CST Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:54:54 -0600 (CST) From: Aleph One To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Cc: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Anyone want an RC3240? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 564 Lines: 13 Hello kernel hackers, I have here a MIPS RISComputer RC3240. Its not doing anything and as a matter of fact you need to boot it from the serial port and it no longer has a hard drive. But it is in working conditions running RISC/OS. Now I think I might convince the boos to donate it since we are not using it at all. So if anyone want to help port linux to the MIPS and is willing to pay for shipping charges let me know. Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net http://underground.org/ KeyID 1024/948FD6B5 Fingerprint EE C9 E8 AA CB AF 09 61 8C 39 EA 47 A8 6A B8 01 From rick@carillon.com Fri Mar 22 00:16:54 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA24433 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:16:52 +0100 (MET) Received: from serv2 (serv2.carillon.com) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA14194; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:16:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from serv2 by serv2 (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA21149; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:18:49 -0800 Sender: rick@carillon.com Message-Id: <3151E3D9.1055@carillon.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:18:49 -0800 From: Rick Rutledge Organization: Carillon X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: SGI X-Url: http://lena.fnet.fr/#second Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 257 Lines: 7 I noticed that there are no SGI systems listed in the hardware. Does this mean that SGI is not ARC compliant? Is there any plan to port to SGI. I have a personal IRIS 4D/35 that is not supported any more. Any info is apreciated. Thanks. Rick. From sallen01@roc.acr.gmeds.com Fri Mar 22 21:46:55 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA13163 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 21:46:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from ns1.eds.com by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA03858; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 21:46:31 +0100 (MET) Received: by ns1.eds.com (hello) id PAA23788; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:46:36 -0500 Received: by nnsa.eds.com (hello) id PAA30636; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:46:06 -0500 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by arrws008.roc.acr.gmeds.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA29897 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:46:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from arrws007.roc.acr.gmeds.com(192.57.159.33) by arrws008.roc.acr.gmeds.com via smap (V1.3) id sma029895; Fri Mar 22 15:45:49 1996 Received: from arrws013.roc.acr.gmeds.com (arrws013.roc.acr.gmeds.com [192.57.159.13]) by arrws007.roc.acr.gmeds.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA05978 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:41:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from arrws013 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arrws013.roc.acr.gmeds.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19226; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:45:45 -0500 (EST) Sender: sallen01@roc.acr.gmeds.com Message-Id: <31531178.5C9F@roc.acr.gmeds.com> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:45:44 -0500 From: Stu Allen Organization: EDS / NY RSC X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.01 9000/720) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Cc: sallen01@arrws013.roc.acr.gmeds.com Subject: Linux/MIPS mailing list X-Url: http://lena.fnet.fr/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 432 Lines: 10 Greetings!! I was wondering if I could be added to the Linux/MIPS mailing list. I will hopefully soon have a DECsystem 5100 to play with, and would really like to assist with the effort to get Linux running on the MIPS platform. Thanks!! -- Stu Allen Phone: (716) 359-6366 (8-239) Workstation / Network Support Internet: sallen01@roc.acr.gmeds.com EDS / ERC Diamond: SMTP(SALLEN01) From vgupta@research.nj.nec.com Sat Mar 23 00:09:15 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA15319 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:09:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from zingo (zingo.nj.nec.com) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA05668; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:09:03 +0100 (MET) Received: by zingo (940816.SGI.8.6.9/YDL1.4-910307.16) id SAA17603(zingo); Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:09:00 -0500 Received: from iris61 by iris61 (940816.SGI.8.6.9/cliff's joyful mailer #2) id SAA10794(iris61); Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:08:54 -0500 Sender: vgupta@research.nj.nec.com Message-Id: <31533304.41C6@research.nj.nec.com> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:08:52 -0500 From: Vipul Gupta Organization: NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ 08540 X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP20) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Cc: vgupta@research.nj.nec.com Subject: Need latest info on MIPS Linux X-Url: http://lena.fnet.fr/#top Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 491 Lines: 14 Hello, I visited your web page at http://lena.fnet.fr/ and was pleasantly surprised to note the progress of Linux/MIPs. As part of a research effort here at NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, we would like to set up a MIPs machine running Linux. I would appreciate it if you could mail me a (partial) list of vendors (and their products) whose machines are known to run Linux/MIPs successfully. Thank you for your time, Vipul Gupta (vgupta@research.nj.nec.com) From tor@spacetec.no Sat Mar 23 21:14:34 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA03577 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 21:14:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from pallas.spacetec.no by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA17983; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 21:14:21 +0100 (MET) Received: (from tor@localhost) by pallas.spacetec.no (8.7.1/8.7.1) id VAA26099 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 21:13:44 +0100 Message-Id: <199603232013.VAA26099@pallas.spacetec.no> From: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 21:13:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: Systemkennung Linux "Re: M700-10 problems.." (Mar 12, 21:13) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: M700-10/3c503.c Content-Length: 723 Lines: 19 On Mar 12, 21:13, Systemkennung Linux wrote: > - illegal kernel paging request: this wasn't supposed to happen ... The exact message is "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual adress 000ddffe" ^^^^^^^^ This actually happens in 3c503.c (el2_probe) where it does the following: for (addr = addrs; *addr; addr++) { int i; unsigned int base_bits = readb(*addr); .. ^^^^^ addrs[] is declared as { 0xddffe, 0xd9ffe, 0xcdffe, 0xc9ffe, 0}; ^^^^^^^ Is maybe the 'readb' too PC/x86 oriented? For now I'll experiment a little with just doing the simpler walk-through- netcard_portlist[] instead. Tor From tor@spacetec.no Sun Mar 24 12:42:50 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA17336 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 12:42:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from pallas.spacetec.no by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA27990; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 12:42:36 +0100 (MET) Received: (from tor@localhost) by pallas.spacetec.no (8.7.1/8.7.1) id MAA26359 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 12:42:07 +0100 Message-Id: <199603241142.MAA26359@pallas.spacetec.no> From: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 12:42:07 +0100 In-Reply-To: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) "M700-10/3c503.c" (Mar 23, 21:15) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: M700-10/3c503.c Content-Length: 569 Lines: 14 On Mar 23, 21:15, I wrote: >Is maybe the 'readb' too PC/x86 oriented? Never mind, I guess it's not really the 'readb', it's the address, as the shared memory support is non-existing I believe.. The 3c503.c code tries to detect the shared memory before it touches the ports, as a way to avoid "unnecessary" port probing. Failing that, it continues with port probing the way ne.c does it. I've jumpered the board to PIO and #if 0'ed the shared memory detection code, and then it finds it just fine. I've still not got it to actually *work*, but I keep trying.. Tor From linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Sun Mar 24 23:13:03 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA25720 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 23:13:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA04132; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 23:12:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from ozzy (ozzy.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.5.8]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA01108 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 23:07:52 +0100 From: Systemkennung Linux Message-Id: <199603242207.XAA01108@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by ozzy (SMI-8.6/KO-2.0) id XAA08577; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 23:11:19 +0100 Subject: Re: M700-10/3c503.c To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 23:11:19 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199603232013.VAA26099@pallas.spacetec.no> from "Tor Arntsen" at Mar 23, 96 09:13:44 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2255 Lines: 57 Hi, > On Mar 12, 21:13, Systemkennung Linux wrote: > > - illegal kernel paging request: this wasn't supposed to happen ... > > The exact message is > "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual adress 000ddffe" > ^^^^^^^^ > This actually happens in 3c503.c (el2_probe) where it does the following: > for (addr = addrs; *addr; addr++) { > int i; > unsigned int base_bits = readb(*addr); > .. ^^^^^ > addrs[] is declared as { 0xddffe, 0xd9ffe, 0xcdffe, 0xc9ffe, 0}; > ^^^^^^^ > Is maybe the 'readb' too PC/x86 oriented? Mea culpa. You're right. The code assumes that MIPS boxes have the same memory layout as Intel machines (code from include/asm-mips/io.h): > /* > * IO bus memory addresses are also 1:1 with the physical address > * FIXME: This assumption is wrong for the Deskstation Tyne > */ > #define virt_to_bus virt_to_phys > #define bus_to_virt phys_to_virt > > /* > * readX/writeX() are used to access memory mapped devices. On some > * architectures the memory mapped IO stuff needs to be accessed > * differently. On the x86 architecture, we just read/write the > * memory location directly. > */ > #define readb(addr) (*(volatile unsigned char *) (addr)) > #define readw(addr) (*(volatile unsigned short *) (addr)) > #define readl(addr) (*(volatile unsigned int *) (addr)) > > #define writeb(b,addr) ((*(volatile unsigned char *) (addr)) = (b)) > #define writew(b,addr) ((*(volatile unsigned short *) (addr)) = (b)) > #define writel(b,addr) ((*(volatile unsigned int *) (addr)) = (b)) > > #define memset_io(a,b,c) memset((void *)(a),(b),(c)) > #define memcpy_fromio(a,b,c) memcpy((a),(void *)(b),(c)) > #define memcpy_toio(a,b,c) memcpy((void *)(a),(b),(c)) > > /* > * Again, MIPS does not require mem IO specific function. > */ > > #define eth_io_copy_and_sum(a,b,c,d) eth_copy_and_sum((a),(void *)(b),(c),(d) Acctually the address space where (E)ISA cards get mapped to is offseted by 0xa0000000 for Deskstation Tyne and rPC44 and by 0xe2000000 for M700-10, Magnum and Acer. So just adding this offset to the (E)ISA address in all these macros should fix the thing. Ralf From linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Mon Mar 25 01:31:50 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA27709 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 01:31:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA05661; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 01:31:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from ozzy (ozzy.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.5.8]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA16365 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 01:26:48 +0100 From: Systemkennung Linux Message-Id: <199603250026.BAA16365@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by ozzy (SMI-8.6/KO-2.0) id BAA08633; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 01:30:16 +0100 Subject: Re: M700-10/3c503.c To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 01:30:15 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199603241142.MAA26359@pallas.spacetec.no> from "Tor Arntsen" at Mar 24, 96 12:42:07 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4006 Lines: 108 Hi, > >Is maybe the 'readb' too PC/x86 oriented? > > Never mind, I guess it's not really the 'readb', it's the address, as > the shared memory support is non-existing I believe.. > The 3c503.c code tries to detect the shared memory before it touches the > ports, as a way to avoid "unnecessary" port probing. Failing that, it > continues with port probing the way ne.c does it. > I've jumpered the board to PIO and #if 0'ed the shared memory detection code, > and then it finds it just fine. > > I've still not got it to actually *work*, but I keep trying.. Try the diff appended below; the code is untested as I don't have a shared memory card at hand. Ralf --- /home/ralf/release/v1.3/linux-1.3.62/include/asm-mips/io.h Wed Jan 10 02:48:55 1996 +++ include/asm-mips/io.h Sun Mar 24 23:45:49 1996 @@ -68,27 +68,33 @@ #define bus_to_virt phys_to_virt /* + * isa_slot_offset is the address where E(ISA) busaddress 0 is is mapped + * for the processor. + */ +extern unsigned long isa_slot_offset; + +/* * readX/writeX() are used to access memory mapped devices. On some * architectures the memory mapped IO stuff needs to be accessed * differently. On the x86 architecture, we just read/write the * memory location directly. */ -#define readb(addr) (*(volatile unsigned char *) (addr)) -#define readw(addr) (*(volatile unsigned short *) (addr)) -#define readl(addr) (*(volatile unsigned int *) (addr)) +#define readb(addr) (*(volatile unsigned char *) ((isa_slot_offset + (unsigned long)addr)) +#define readw(addr) (*(volatile unsigned short *) ((isa_slot_offset + (unsigned long)addr)) +#define readl(addr) (*(volatile unsigned int *) ((isa_slot_offset + (unsigned long)addr)) -#define writeb(b,addr) ((*(volatile unsigned char *) (addr)) = (b)) -#define writew(b,addr) ((*(volatile unsigned short *) (addr)) = (b)) -#define writel(b,addr) ((*(volatile unsigned int *) (addr)) = (b)) +#define writeb(b,addr) ((*(volatile unsigned char *) ((isa_slot_offset + (unsigned long)addr)) = (b)) +#define writew(b,addr) ((*(volatile unsigned short *) ((isa_slot_offset + (unsigned long)addr)) = (b)) +#define writel(b,addr) ((*(volatile unsigned int *) ((isa_slot_offset + (unsigned long)addr)) = (b)) -#define memset_io(a,b,c) memset((void *)(a),(b),(c)) -#define memcpy_fromio(a,b,c) memcpy((a),(void *)(b),(c)) -#define memcpy_toio(a,b,c) memcpy((void *)(a),(b),(c)) +#define memset_io(a,b,c) memset((void *)(isa_slot_offset + (unsigned long)a),(b),(c)) +#define memcpy_fromio(a,b,c) memcpy((a),(void *)(isa_slot_offset + (unsigned long)b),(c)) +#define memcpy_toio(a,b,c) memcpy((void *)(isa_slot_offset + (unsigned long)a),(b),(c)) /* * Again, MIPS does not require mem IO specific function. + * (Not shure about this one ...) */ - #define eth_io_copy_and_sum(a,b,c,d) eth_copy_and_sum((a),(void *)(b),(c),(d)) /* --- /home/ralf/release/v1.3/linux-1.3.62/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c Sun Feb 11 05:05:29 1996 +++ arch/mips/kernel/setup.c Sun Mar 24 23:50:15 1996 @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -375,27 +376,32 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_ACER_PICA_61 case MACH_ACER_PICA_61: feature = &acer_pica_61_feature; + isa_slot_offset = 0xe3000000; break; #endif #ifdef CONFIG_DECSTATION case MACH_DECSTATION: feature = &decstation_feature; + /* No need to set isa_slot_offset */ break; #endif #ifdef CONFIG_DESKSTATION_RPC44 case MACH_DESKSTATION_RPC44: mips_memory_upper = KSEG0 + (32 << 20); /* xxx fixme imp */ feature = &deskstation_rpc44_feature; + isa_slot_offset = 0xa0000000; break; #endif #ifdef CONFIG_DESKSTATION_TYNE case MACH_DESKSTATION_TYNE: feature = &deskstation_tyne_feature; + isa_slot_offset = 0xa0000000; break; #endif #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_MAGNUM_4000 case MACH_MIPS_MAGNUM_4000: feature = &mips_magnum_4000_feature; + isa_slot_offset = 0xe3000000; break; #endif default: From tor@spacetec.no Mon Mar 25 23:25:51 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA16765 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:25:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from pallas.spacetec.no by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA25265; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:25:30 +0100 (MET) Received: (from tor@localhost) by pallas.spacetec.no (8.7.1/8.7.1) id XAA31021 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:25:15 +0100 Message-Id: <199603252225.XAA31021@pallas.spacetec.no> From: tor@spacetec.no (Tor Arntsen) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 23:25:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: Systemkennung Linux "Re: M700-10/3c503.c" (Mar 25, 1:32) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: M700-10/3c503.c Content-Length: 1025 Lines: 25 On Mar 25, 1:32, Systemkennung Linux wrote: >Try the diff appended below; the code is untested as I don't have a shared >memory card at hand. [patch deleted] I did some trivial (and hopefully correct) fixes to the patch to make it compile (additional right-parentheses at end of readx/writex in io.h, isa_slot_offset declared in kernel/setup.c), however it crashes with Got dbe at 800a6bfc. $0 : 00000000 800b0000 e30ddffe 000ddffe 800b483c 00000008 e0200000 8000000f ^^^^^^^^ looks like isa_slot_offset plus the first shared mem. probe address in 3c503.c $8 : ffffffff 00000000 00000007 00000000 800d44cb 00000020 800e7e70 0001ffd7 $16: 00000000 81feae38 800d358c 800d3c60 00000001 807e9804 807e9004 00000000 $24: 00000015 8060bf6d 00000080 81feae28 8000b56c 800a6be8 (could be errors though, hand typed.. fortunately I'm a touch typist :-) epc : 800a6bfc Status: 10006803 Cause : 0000801c el2_probe starts at 800a6b20, which agrees with the printk's I threw in. Regards, Tor From linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Tue Mar 26 02:32:10 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA20816 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 02:32:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA27868; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 02:31:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from flake.uni-koblenz.de (linux@flake.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.37]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA03846 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 02:31:50 +0100 From: Systemkennung Linux Message-Id: <199603260131.CAA03846@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by flake.uni-koblenz.de (4.1/KO-2.0) id AA09677; Tue, 26 Mar 96 02:30:50 +0100 Subject: Re: M700-10/3c503.c To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 02:30:49 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199603252225.XAA31021@pallas.spacetec.no> from "Tor Arntsen" at Mar 25, 96 11:25:14 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1080 Lines: 28 Hi, > On Mar 25, 1:32, Systemkennung Linux wrote: > >Try the diff appended below; the code is untested as I don't have a shared > >memory card at hand. > [patch deleted] > > I did some trivial (and hopefully correct) fixes to the patch to make it > compile (additional right-parentheses at end of readx/writex in io.h, > isa_slot_offset declared in kernel/setup.c), however it crashes with > > Got dbe at 800a6bfc. > $0 : 00000000 800b0000 e30ddffe 000ddffe 800b483c 00000008 e0200000 8000000f > ^^^^^^^^ looks like isa_slot_offset plus the first > shared mem. probe address in 3c503.c > $8 : ffffffff 00000000 00000007 00000000 800d44cb 00000020 800e7e70 0001ffd7 > $16: 00000000 81feae38 800d358c 800d3c60 00000001 807e9804 807e9004 00000000 > $24: 00000015 8060bf6d 00000080 81feae28 8000b56c 800a6be8 > (could be errors though, hand typed.. fortunately I'm a touch typist :-) > epc : 800a6bfc > Status: 10006803 > Cause : 0000801c > > el2_probe starts at 800a6b20, which agrees with the printk's I threw in. Jehova :-) Ralf From linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Wed Mar 27 09:40:32 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA17000 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:40:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA24061; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:35:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from flake.uni-koblenz.de (linux@flake.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.37]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA00353 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:34:22 +0100 From: Systemkennung Linux Message-Id: <199603270834.JAA00353@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by flake.uni-koblenz.de (4.1/KO-2.0) id AA14213; Wed, 27 Mar 96 09:33:18 +0100 Subject: IDE CDROM To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:33:18 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1808 Lines: 42 Hi all, enclosed below are the diffs that fix some alignments bugs in the IDE CD driver. Works now for me like a charme. happy IDE-ing (yikes ...), Ralf diff -urN /home/ralf/release/v1.3/linux-1.3.62/drivers/block/ide-cd.c linux-1.3.62/drivers/block/ide-cd.c --- /home/ralf/release/v1.3/linux-1.3.62/drivers/block/ide-cd.c Mon Feb 12 04:23:29 1996 +++ linux-1.3.62/drivers/block/ide-cd.c Wed Mar 27 08:25:04 1996 @@ -1160,7 +1160,10 @@ pc.c[0] = READ_10; pc.c[7] = (nframes >> 8); pc.c[8] = (nframes & 0xff); - *(int *)(&pc.c[2]) = htonl (frame); + pc.c[2] = (frame >> 24); /* Convert to big endian */ + pc.c[3] = (frame >> 16); + pc.c[4] = (frame >> 8); + pc.c[5] = frame; /* Send the command to the drive and return. */ (void) cdrom_transfer_packet_command (drive, pc.c, sizeof (pc.c), diff -urN /home/ralf/release/v1.3/linux-1.3.62/drivers/block/ide.h linux-1.3.62/drivers/block/ide.h --- /home/ralf/release/v1.3/linux-1.3.62/drivers/block/ide.h Sun Feb 11 08:44:53 1996 +++ linux-1.3.62/drivers/block/ide.h Wed Mar 27 07:49:39 1996 @@ -318,8 +318,12 @@ byte usage; /* current "open()" count for drive */ byte head; /* "real" number of heads */ byte sect; /* "real" sectors per track */ - byte bios_head; /* BIOS/fdisk/LILO number of heads */ - byte bios_sect; /* BIOS/fdisk/LILO sectors per track */ + /* + * HACK: enforce alignment for sake of IDE CDROM driver on + * architectures with strict alignment rules. + */ + byte bios_head __attribute__ ((aligned (8))); /* BIOS/fdisk/LILO number of heads */ + byte bios_sect __attribute__ ((aligned (8))); /* BIOS/fdisk/LILO sectors per track */ unsigned short bios_cyl; /* BIOS/fdisk/LILO number of cyls */ unsigned short cyl; /* "real" number of cyls */ void *hwif; /* actually (ide_hwif_t *) */ From linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Wed Mar 27 21:53:52 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA27309 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:53:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de) by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA07204; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:53:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from ozzy (ozzy.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.5.8]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA06912 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:53:44 +0100 From: Systemkennung Linux Message-Id: <199603272053.VAA06912@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by ozzy (SMI-8.6/KO-2.0) id VAA12239; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:52:15 +0100 Subject: nfsd To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 21:52:15 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2280 Lines: 69 Hi all, below are the patches that fix some portability problems with the nfs-server-2.2beta13 from Olaf Kirch. I can now mount the IDE CDROM of my MIPS box on my Linux/i386 box :-) If someone of you tries to recompile nfsd - there are some more problems with nfsd caused by namespace pollution. For now I declare GNU libc guilty and have therefore removed the related patches from the appended patchfile. Ralf diff -urN nfs-server-2.2beta13.orig/auth_init.c nfs-server-2.2beta13/auth_init.c --- nfs-server-2.2beta13.orig/auth_init.c Thu Feb 15 01:32:29 1996 +++ nfs-server-2.2beta13/auth_init.c Tue Mar 26 03:40:20 1996 @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ int have_setfsuid = 0; static _PRO(int filt_getc, (FILE *) ); -static _PRO(int getline, (char **, FILE *) ); +static _PRO(int mygetline, (char **, FILE *) ); static _PRO(char *parse_opts, (char *, char, nfs_mount *, char *) ); static _PRO(void parse_squash, (nfs_mount *mp, int uidflag, char **cpp) ); static _PRO(int parse_num, (char **cpp) ); @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ return (c); } -static int getline(lbuf, f) +static int mygetline(lbuf, f) char **lbuf; FILE *f; { @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ fname, strerror(errno)); exit(1); } - while (getline(&cp, ef)) { + while (mygetline(&cp, ef)) { char *saved_line = cp; /* For free()ing it later. */ char *mount_point, *host_name, cc; nfs_client *clnt; diff -urN nfs-server-2.2beta13.orig/ugid_map.c nfs-server-2.2beta13/ugid_map.c --- nfs-server-2.2beta13.orig/ugid_map.c Thu Feb 1 11:54:24 1996 +++ nfs-server-2.2beta13/ugid_map.c Wed Mar 27 18:30:42 1996 @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ */ #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -25,11 +26,11 @@ #include "ugid.h" #define UID_BITS (sizeof(uid_t) * CHAR_BIT) -#define UID_MAX (1L << UID_BITS) -#define UID_LIM1 (UID_MAX/2) +#define UID_MAX (1ULL << UID_BITS) +#define UID_LIM1 (1UL << (UID_BITS - 1)) #define GID_BITS (sizeof(gid_t) * CHAR_BIT) -#define GID_MAX (1L << GID_BITS) -#define GID_LIM1 (GID_MAX/2) +#define GID_MAX (1ULL << GID_BITS) +#define GID_LIM1 (1UL << (GID_BITS - 1)) /* This structure holds a uid/gid map. * We do a little hack here so that we're able to hold ids at the lower From eugen@research.nj.nec.com Fri Mar 29 00:37:01 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA22784 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:36:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from zingo.nj.nec.com by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA03592; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:36:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from iris49 (iris49 [138.15.150.129]) by zingo.nj.nec.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA15414 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:36:49 -0500 (EST) Received: by iris49 (940816.SGI.8.6.9/cliff's joyful mailer #2) id SAA25881(iris49); Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:37:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:37:01 -0500 From: eugen@research.nj.nec.com (Eugen Schenfeld) Message-Id: <199603282337.SAA25881@iris49> To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: cheap MIPS box Content-Length: 350 Lines: 17 Hi, I am considering to make a cheap MIPS based box to run Linux/MIPS. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, Dr. Eugen Schenfeld NEC Research Institute Eugen Schenfeld NEC Research Institute 4 Independence Way Princeton, NJ 08540 phone: 609 951 2742 fax: 609 951 2482 email: eugen@research.nj.nec.com (Inet) From digitech!digitech.co.nz!arnim@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz Fri Mar 29 04:41:32 1996 Received: from ns.fnet.fr (ns.fnet.fr [192.134.192.2]) by guadalquivir.fnet.fr (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA29106 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 04:41:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from atlantis.actrix.gen.nz by ns.fnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA06615; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 04:41:08 +0100 (MET) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA19890 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:41:19 +1200 >Received: by digitech.co.nz (UUPC/extended 1.12r); Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:53:44 +1200 Message-Id: <315b50b8.digitech@digitech.co.nz> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 14:53:42 +1200 From: "Arnim Littek" Organization: Digi-Tech Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand Reply-To: "Arnim Littek" To: linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: cheap MIPS box Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1779 Lines: 44 On Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:38:52 +0100 (MET), linux-mips@fnet.fr wrote: > I am considering to make a cheap MIPS based box to run Linux/MIPS. > Any help will be appreciated. I too am looking at this as a project. I don't have a company standing behind me per se, but I have done a simple R3000 embedded design, am co-designing on another and I am looking at making a small R4000-based controller for embedded applications, for which I think Linux/MIPS would be a good start. Of course that will then have application in several places I can think of... One avenue I have tried, but not succeeded particularly well at thus far, is getting detailed info on the NEC 4300 and 4100 parts. The data for any Japanese semiconductor houses is hard to get in this country... However, I would be quite happy to cooperate with you on this. I am not sure what your motives are - it would be good if this were a demo board for the NEC MIPS processor family. If your design is partitionable, perhaps I can contribute somewhere. The volumes of units shipped from NZ preclude use of ASIC in all but a few applications, but I have been a heavy user of programmable logic and FPGAs, which does make some things simpler... For what its worth... Arnim. Arnim Littek, arnim@digitech.co.nz R&D Digi-Tech Communications Ltd tel. (64)(4) 389-8909 Box 20-002, fax 389-9901 Wellington South, New Zealand -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.i mQBNAi/XjMgAAAECAMdqjPZECXAl1h7s2UMhP8SAjW16N20Ndf4EUch/beaAfAiJ Gc8S+y1MSYFPD6oN6UCQVGMZUHFHNf6FAdZq2bUABRG0JkFybmltIEguIExpdHRl ayA8YXJuaW1AZGlnaXRlY2guY28ubno+ =Kekq -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- --