Which kernel for Lemote Yeeloong?
"John D. Baker" <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:38:55 -0600 (CST)
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I have a Lemote Yeeloong 8101-B and have been following efforts to support the offerings from Lemote. The system currently dual-boots gNewSense and OpenBSD 5.0-current from disk. I built a recent release using "-m evbmips64el" since that seemed to be equivalent to the OpenBSD architecture. My usual practice for exploring new platforms or new software on familiar platforms is to netboot and operate diskless/NFS-root. I populated a root directory on my server using the kern-LOONGSON.tgz kernel set, hardlinking it to my tftpboot directory. On the Yeeloong, I dropped into PMON, set the address and booted the kernel via tftp. The LOONGSON kernel complained about a corrupted environment, that it couldn't determine the platform and that it was unsupported hardware. I next tried a GDIUM64 kernel and it seemed to go, but when it initialized the framebuffer, I only saw about 2 lines of GALLANT12x22 displaying memory statistics at the top of the screen (the rest of the screen was in PMON text mode). After this, the narrow strip across the top cleared to white with no apparent further activity. Sometimes it displays in white-on black and sometimes black-on-black. (Maybe a small black light lights up black to let me know I've done it, but can't really tell... ;) I haven't tweaked any PMON settings (other than "moresz" to cope with PMON's quirks when loading the OpenBSD boot program from disk). What guidance does the list have for exploring NetBSD on the Lemote Yeeloong? -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]mylinuxisp[flyspeck]com OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645