On 10/20/2013 05:09 AM, Michał Masłowski wrote: >> I just received my Loongson-3A laptop. I would like to install an >> alternative OS. Preferably, Debian Wheeyz, Parabola, anything really. > > Both Debian and Parabola have userspace working on 3A and no kernel for > it. (Parabola didn't several months ago: due to the lack of English > documentation I did not know that 3A doesn't implement some 2F > instructions before trying.) > > Most my attempts at building working kernels for this device failed, > maybe you can do this. The 3.5 kernel that was shipped with the device > has important bugs related to power management and has some options > required by Parabola disabled. Rebuilding it with different config and > disabled autohotplug solved this (newer kernels should fix crashes > during CPU hotplug). > > Parabola is slow: important packages like WebKit or Iceweasel have no > support for N32 and the graphics driver depending on nonfree firmware > isn't provided. xf86-video-modesetting works. > >> I can't find any instructions in English on how to install such OS, or >> where to get OS images. I realize this is probably because the laptop >> is new. > > I used debootstrap from the stock OS to install Debian on another > partition. For Parabola extraction of a tar archive with a system > installed elsewhere works (using e.g. pacman's --root option). > Afterwards I needed to add a /boot/boot.cfg entry. There is no > knowledge specific to the laptop needed here, documentation for 2F > should work too. > Thanks for the info. I will go ahead and install Parabola, since I've used Arch before and am familiar with the distribution. I also noticed that the Parabola doco for 2F is pretty self-explanatory, so I'll start from there.
One last thing, if possible, could you post your example /boot/boot.cfg entry? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
