On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Andreas Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > * Aaro Koskinen ([email protected]) [120707 21:24]: >> The PMON bootloader is crap, at least the version shipped with my >> board. You cannot fully enable the serial console (USB keyboard & VGA is >> always needed). Secondly, there is a bug that limits the initramfs image >> size to some really small size (as a workaround, I'm using a kernel with >> embedded initramfs.) I'm looking forward to try out the latest GRUB that >> should include support to use it as a firmware on Fuloong to replace >> the PMON. However, first I would need to acquire tools/HW to backup and >> restore the original firmware flash as I don't want to risk bricking my >> board (any advice for this, anyone?). > > How about letting pmon boot grub, and continue from there? > > > > Andi
Support on grub for the mini-pc was just announced on the most recent grub release, which I think hadn't hit debian. I don't know if that means keep using the grub-yeeloong version or there will be a new binary for fullong. However with the yeloong version so far loading the grub menu from pmon had not been possible for me, :-). I'm curious about some prior comments about using the mini-pc as slow desktop replacement. I too do the same. However the debian binaries don't exploit well the architecture. They use -o32 abi, when the machine is 64 bits allowing -n32 and -n64 abis. I imagine -n64 could even allow applications requiring higher memory spaces for better performance, such as libreoffice and iceweasel, to work better, :-) At any rate wht makes more curious is that iceweasel from official debian repo doesn't work for me at all when browsing over gmail account. It just freezes. So I keep using an old anheng version on testing for iceweasel. I forgot to mention I use debian unstable (doesn't have an anheng counterpart, so from anheng I have to use testing repo for iceweasel). And I have no clue about official way to install debian on mini-pc. The way I install it was to install old version of gnu-ssense first, and then change the repos to official debian. This because when I acquire these mini-pcs, loongson architecture was just getting into unstable and there was no official support anywhere, as I suppose there is now, :-) If someone is working without problems with official iceweasel, please let me know how, :-) Other than that I'd say, please take into account using non official repos such as anheng ones might be necessary... This seems outdated to me: http://dev.lemote.com/code/linux-loongson-community But it's a good source of information, specially when talking about options out there... Thanks, -- Javier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/calurrgfxmif1al6nsjuo4z7acenv2rvfp9w1fp1cpnvpfdx...@mail.gmail.com
