From koheni@voyager.bxscience.edu Sun Feb 16 03:43:25 1997 Received-Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 03:43:24 GMT Received: from voyager.bxscience.edu by Utopia.EUnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA23539; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 04:41:31 +0100 (MET) Received: by voyager.bxscience.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA15488; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 22:42:52 -0500 From: koheni@voyager.bxscience.edu (Izik Kohen) Message-Id: <9702160342.AA15488@voyager.bxscience.edu> To: linux-mips Subject: IRQ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 97 22:42:51 -0500 hi there. i am having a slight problem: when i type : boot 3/rz0/dec_vmlinux.2.1.1.test it looks good up to the poing: Please write the IRQ setup code for the DECStation! and then it halts. any help is appreciated. i am running this on a decstation 5000/120 w/32mb ram and booting off an ultrix partition. please help thankyou. isaac. From trobin@pacbell.net Sun Feb 16 05:07:59 1997 Received-Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 05:07:54 GMT Received: from hupa.snfc21.pbi.net by Utopia.EUnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA26179; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 06:05:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from idontknow (ppp-206-170-121-47.sndg02.pacbell.net [206.170.121.47]) by hupa.snfc21.pbi.net (8.8.4/8.7.1) with ESMTP id VAA13494; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:07:44 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <33069682.7C79@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:09:23 -0800 From: TRAN-THY Reply-To: trobin@pacbell.net X-Sender: TRAN-THY (Unverified) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips, pcomp@pacbell.net Subject: cmb-001, pent. 120, and 486/dx2-66: linux web server X-Priority: Normal Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------3FC427E5BD40" ------------3FC427E5BD40 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have found a home. Or home page as the case may be. I recently acquired a sgi personal iris and have been kicking the idea around of starting a web server. I have spoken with various indiviuals and they feel the sgi would do a great job. Alas, I don't know jack about sgi's. x86 day and night no prob. I work for a computer store. WWW.POWER-COMP.COM. However, from just reading a little hear I have renewed faith. But am a little concerned about what I read regarding the version under development for the R3000 proc. Which is the cpu on the cmn-b001. Please send any updates as I would like to attempt an intranet setup by the summer. thank you, Terrence D. Robinson trobin@pacbell.net pcomp@pacbell.net ------------3FC427E5BD40 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

I have found a home. Or home page as the case may be. I recently acquired a sgi personal iris and have been kicking the idea around of starting a web server. I have spoken with various indiviuals and they feel the sgi would do a great job.

Alas, I don't know jack about sgi's. x86 day and night no prob. I work for a computer store. WWW.POWER-COMP.COM.

However, from just reading a little hear I have renewed faith. But am a little concerned about what I read regarding the version under development for the R3000 proc. Which is the cpu on the cmn-b001.

Please send any updates as I would like to attempt an intranet setup by the summer.

thank you,

Terrence D. Robinson

trobin@pacbell.net

pcomp@pacbell.net

------------3FC427E5BD40-- From engel@unix-ag.uni-siegen.de Sun Feb 16 10:57:21 1997 Received-Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 10:57:21 GMT Received: from si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de by Utopia.EUnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA06464; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:55:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de by si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de with SMTP (5.67b/UniSiegen 1.1) id AA24125; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:57:06 +0100 Received: (from engel@localhost) by vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de (Mailhost) id LAA23147 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:56:38 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Engel Message-Id: <199702161056.LAA23147@vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> Subject: Re: IRQ To: linux-mips Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:56:36 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <9702160342.AA15488@voyager.bxscience.edu> from "Izik Kohen" at Feb 15, 97 10:42:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Hi, > > hi there. > i am having a slight problem: > when i type : > > boot 3/rz0/dec_vmlinux.2.1.1.test > > it looks good up to the poing: > > Please write the IRQ setup code for the DECStation! > > and then it halts. > any help is appreciated. > i am running this on a decstation 5000/120 > w/32mb ram and booting off an ultrix partition. > Well, this is more or less the expected behaviour. Noone has written the IRQ setup code so far. The problem with the DS5000/120 is that we don't have any documentation on that specific system. (Paul - are you listening ? :-)) The DECstation port isn't functional yet, but you are welcome to join us if you have some programming experience. Kernel hacking is fun - sometimes :-). If you only want a working system, try NetBSD or OpenBSD - both have a fully functional port to almost all DECstation models. regards, Michael Engel (engel@unix-ag.uni-siegen.de) From paul@suede.sw.oz.au Sun Feb 16 22:36:11 1997 Received-Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 22:36:10 GMT Received: from sweeney.sw.oz.au ([203.31.96.1]) by Utopia.EUnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA20295; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 23:34:04 +0100 (MET) Received: by sweeney.sw.oz.au; id JAA13365; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:35:54 +1100 (EST) Received: from swallow.sw.oz.au(192.41.203.1) by sweeney.sw.oz.au via smap (3.2) id xma013363; Mon, 17 Feb 97 09:35:49 +1100 Received: from suede.sw.oz.au by swallow.sw.oz.au with ESMTP id WAA09702; Sun, 16 Feb 1997 22:35:48 GMT (8.6.10/Unixware) (from paul@suede.sw.oz.au for ) Received: by suede.sw.oz.au id JAA24362; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:35:47 +1100 (SMI-8.6/1.34) (from paul for linux-mips@fnet.fr) From: paul@suede.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) Message-Id: <199702162235.JAA24362@suede.sw.oz.au> Subject: Re: IRQ To: linux-mips Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:35:46 +1100 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199702161056.LAA23147@vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> from "Michael Engel" at Feb 16, 97 11:56:36 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 Hi Folks, > > Please write the IRQ setup code for the DECStation! > > > > and then it halts. > > > Well, this is more or less the expected behaviour. Noone has written > the IRQ setup code so far. The problem with the DS5000/120 is that > we don't have any documentation on that specific system. (Paul - are > you listening ? :-)) Yep - occassionally! Work's been a bit busy... 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 9698 2322 Level 2, 79 Myrtle St, Chippendale, NSW 2008, Australia Fax: +61 2 9699 9174 "It is the lack of acceptance of diversity which threatens to destroy society, NOT the free expression of it." - Me. From davidm@fuzzbox.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au Wed Feb 19 09:52:50 1997 Received-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:52:50 GMT Received: from fuzzbox.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.AU by Utopia.EUnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA00434; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:50:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from fuzzbox.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au (davidm@fuzzbox.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au [129.78.97.193]) by fuzzbox.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA22076; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:52:41 +1100 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:52:41 +1100 (EST) From: David Monro Sender: davidm@fuzzbox.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au Reply-To: David Monro Subject: linux/mips - hardware and questions To: linux-mips Cc: davidm@fuzzbox.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi, I am interested in joining the Linux/MIPS project. Hardware: In a few days I expect to have a couple of Mips Magnum 3000 machines. Future aquisitions for the project may include a Magnum 4000 or two and possibly a DecStation. Other resources: Since the Mips boxen here were being used for Plan 9 development (Plan 9 is an operating system from Bell Labs) I should be able to get lots of low level information on how to bootstrap the boxes etc, although I may have to be carefull not to read code I am not meant to see :-) Now the questions: 1) I gather the Magnum 3000 can only run in big endian mode. I built my self up a cross compiler and tools for mips-linux, pulled the 2.1.14 tree off the mips area on sunsite and had a go at compiling. If i turn on experimental options, I get the option of the magnum 3000. However, when I actually try to compile it blows up with #error directives about some routines in include/asm/bitops.h not working in big endian mode. Has anyone done a fix for this yet? 2) Is the 2.1.14 from sunsite the latest? I notice it has lots more mips stuff than the 'standard' Linus-distributed 2.1.26 - I assume the standard one simply hasn't had the latest patches merged in? 3) Where do I get binutils-2.7.0.6 (which is what the last patch for binutils should be applied to)? I can only get binutils-2.7. Will the linux/MIPS targets/fixes make it back to the gnu people for the next version? That should be enough to get started :-) David From ralf@Julia.DE Wed Feb 19 14:12:55 1997 Received-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 14:12:54 GMT Received: from alles.intern.julia.de (loehnberg1.core.julia.de) by Utopia.EUnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA08324; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:10:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from kernel.panic.julia.de (kernel.panic.julia.de [194.221.49.153]) by alles.intern.julia.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA17236; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:10:32 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle Received: (from ralf@localhost) by kernel.panic.julia.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA10188; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:09:51 +0100 Message-Id: <199702191409.PAA10188@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: linux/mips - hardware and questions To: linux-mips Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:09:50 +0100 (MET) Cc: davidm@fuzzbox.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au In-Reply-To: from "David Monro" at Feb 19, 97 08:52:41 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, > Hardware: In a few days I expect to have a couple of Mips Magnum 3000 machines. > Future aquisitions for the project may include a Magnum 4000 or two and > possibly a DecStation. > > Other resources: Since the Mips boxen here were being used for Plan 9 > development (Plan 9 is an operating system from Bell Labs) I should be able to > get lots of low level information on how to bootstrap the boxes etc, although I > may have to be carefull not to read code I am not meant to see :-) objdump -d plan9 | less ;-) > Now the questions: > 1) I gather the Magnum 3000 can only run in big endian mode. I built my self up > a cross compiler and tools for mips-linux, pulled the 2.1.14 tree off the mips > area on sunsite and had a go at compiling. If i turn on experimental options, I > get the option of the magnum 3000. However, when I actually try to compile it > blows up with #error directives about some routines in include/asm/bitops.h not > working in big endian mode. Has anyone done a fix for this yet? Well, the macros aren't really broken; they work fine for both byteorders. However they are also being used for manipulation of extern data like bitmaps in the ext2 filesystem. The Linux bitops work on arrays of 32-bit int variables and thus are byteorder dependand. This means they need to be changed to make filesystems should be exchangable. Another thing is that in the meantime e2fsck e2mkfs etc assume little endian byteorder. > 2) Is the 2.1.14 from sunsite the latest? I notice it has lots more mips stuff > than the 'standard' Linus-distributed 2.1.26 - I assume the standard one simply > hasn't had the latest patches merged in? Yes. Use the source tree from ftp.fnet.fr. > 3) Where do I get binutils-2.7.0.6 (which is what the last patch for binutils > should be applied to)? I can only get binutils-2.7. HJ Lu's source distribution of binutils 2.7.0.6 for Linux contains full Linux/MIPS support, so there is no special Linux/MIPS source tree or patches anymore for 2.7.0.6. However I've found serious problems with 2.7.0.6 - 2.7.0.9, so I urgently recommend to use 2.7.0 plus the latest patch which should be binutils-2.7.0-4.diff.gz. > Will the linux/MIPS > targets/fixes make it back to the gnu people for the next version? Yes; parts of them are already. Ralf -- 74 a3 53 cc 0b 19 From sitek!exor.it!DAVOR@inet.it Wed Feb 19 16:02:12 1997 Received-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:02:12 GMT Received: from venere.inet.it by Utopia.EUnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA11538; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:58:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from sitek.UUCP (uuwfp@localhost) by venere.inet.it (8.6.10/8.6.10) with UUCP id QAA141072 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:32:26 +0100 Received: by exor.it (UUPC/extended 1.11q); Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:26:25 EST From: Davor Kovacec Sender: "Sitek Srl - Produzioni Elettroniche" Message-Id: <330b7002.sitek@exor.it> To: linux-mips Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:17:19 +0000 Subject: MIPS-Linux on MACK microkernel Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Did anybody knows where I can find Linux over a MACH microkernel ported to MIPS R30xx? Also, information about Realtime Linux extensions ported to MIPS R30xx will be usefull. Thanks. Davor Kovacec HW R&D Senior Engineer SITEK s.r.l. Via Monte Pastello 1 37057 San Giovanni Lupatoto (VR) ITALY phone: +39 45 8750404 fax: +39 45 8779023 email: davor@exor.it http://www.intesys.it/exor From ralf@Julia.DE Wed Feb 19 17:21:50 1997 Received-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 17:21:48 GMT Received: from alles.intern.julia.de (loehnberg1.core.julia.de) by Utopia.EUnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA13210; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:19:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from kernel.panic.julia.de (kernel.panic.julia.de [194.221.49.153]) by alles.intern.julia.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20188; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:19:04 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle Received: (from ralf@localhost) by kernel.panic.julia.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA10418; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:18:24 +0100 Message-Id: <199702191718.SAA10418@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: MIPS-Linux on MACK microkernel To: linux-mips Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:18:24 +0100 (MET) Cc: DAVOR@exor.it In-Reply-To: <330b7002.sitek@exor.it> from "Davor Kovacec" at Feb 19, 97 04:17:19 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, > Did anybody knows where I can find Linux over a MACH microkernel > ported to MIPS R30xx? Linux/MIPS runs on the bare metal. It should however be realitvly easy to do something like that based on MkLinux for Apple's PowerPCs. > Also, information about Realtime Linux extensions ported to MIPS R30xx will > be usefull. The RT extensions haven't yet been ported to Linux/MIPS. I'll do so as soon as they get merged back into the standard Linux kernel, not before. The not into the published source tree merged R3000 support is another issue. Ralf From koheni@voyager.bxscience.edu Fri Feb 21 01:57:34 1997 Received-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 01:57:33 GMT Received: from gatekeeper.waldorf-gmbh.de by Utopia.EUnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA02819; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:55:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from scotty (root@scotty.waldorf-gmbh.de [193.98.169.1]) by gatekeeper.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA15497 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 03:57:13 +0100 Received: from voyager.bxscience.edu (voyager.bxscience.edu [207.10.184.40]) by scotty (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id DAA18752 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 03:05:52 +0100 Received: by voyager.bxscience.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA15546; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:56:54 -0500 From: koheni@voyager.bxscience.edu (Izik Kohen) Message-Id: <9702210156.AA15546@voyager.bxscience.edu> To: linux@waldorf-gmbh.de Subject: DECStation Linux Date: Thu, 20 Feb 97 20:56:53 -0500 hi all. i am interested if there is a decstation linux out there. this is very important, as out school owns many decstations. i can volunteer a dec or two for your tests if you wish. please reply if you can help. our hardware consists of DECStations 5000/120's. thankyou isaac. From engel@unix-ag.uni-siegen.de Fri Feb 21 08:18:29 1997 Received-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 08:18:29 GMT Received: from si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de by Utopia.EUnet.fr (5.65c8d/AFUU-4.2.3) via EUnet-France id AA13360; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:16:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de by si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de with SMTP (5.67b/UniSiegen 1.1) id AA27271; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:18:18 +0100 Received: (from engel@localhost) by vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de (Mailhost) id JAA13147 for linux-mips@fnet.fr; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:17:39 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Engel Message-Id: <199702210817.JAA13147@vespa.unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> Subject: Re: DECStation Linux To: linux-mips Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:17:38 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <9702210156.AA15546@voyager.bxscience.edu> from "Izik Kohen" at Feb 20, 97 08:56:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Hi, > > hi all. i am interested if there is a decstation > linux out there. this is very important, as out > school owns many decstations. i can volunteer a > dec or two for your tests if you wish. please > reply if you can help. our hardware consists > of DECStations 5000/120's. > The DECstation version of Linux is still being far from finished. If you like to do some kernel hacking, you are welcome to help us. The problem with the DS5000/120 is that DEC is still searching for documentation on these :-(. regards, Michael Engel (engel@unix-ag.uni-siegen.de)