Re: mips64 on port-cobalt

Andy Ruhl <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:59:41 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.cobalt,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Matt Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Dec 17, 2009, at 3:06 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
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>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:02:28PM +0100, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
>>> 256 MB within the Qube 2.
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>> Probably not worth running the kernel 64 bit then, but maybe N32 userland.
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> You need a 64 bit kernel to run a N32 userland.  Maybe not a N64 kernel but at least a N32 kernel.
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> The algorithmics P5064 already runs a mips64 kernel so the Qube could as well (since they share the same processor).  I can make cobalt support mips64 is an hour or two.  Is someone willing to test it?

I can netboot it if that's good enough for you for now. I have another
disk I can install into as well if you need.

Andy