On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Mark Kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 25 Aug 2008, at 22:08, Timothy Normand Miller wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> We have this embedded MIPS machine >>> >>> embedded MIPS -> NetBSD might be a good choice >> >> We don't know anything about NetBSD, but if you could point us in the >> right direction, we could try it! > > I'm a NetBSD developer. Getting a net-booting system up shouldn't be too > hard or are you wanting to run it all on the mips system?
You might save us from total failure! We thought that installing Debian on it would be easy, but there are some bootstrapping problems. Somehow we need to boot from a compact flash, meaning that we need a bootable image on one. >> >> >>> >>>> We would like >>>> to get ANY graphical web browser to work on that. Since it's Qt, we >>>> figured Konqueror would be appropriate. >>> > > Loads to choose from pkgsrc, NetBSD's 3rd party packaging system. >>> > >> The default busybox on this thing doesn't have X11. Just embedded Qt >> (and alas not version 4.4). >> >> There's this MIPS emulator we're struggling with too. It crashes and >> stuff. If you know NetBSD, we could really use your help. It's a >> side project, but it could really help with OGP and other open >> hardware stuff. >> > > The latest release for the mips port is available from > ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-4.0/mipsco/ > > You'll need a kernel and the sets. > > To help you more i need to know whether you want to netboot the mips board > or self host. We want to boot off either the internal 1GB flash or the pluggable compact flash. We can reprogram the compact all we like, while the internal one... I need to get more info on it. > Feel free to contact me if you want to go the NetBSD route. At this point, we're desperate for any solution. We were tinkering with some ideas when we got someone interested in helping produce this. It wouldn't be a Traversal product, but it would be open hardware. But now they want to see something work or they're not interested. We just need a minimal browser to load HTML from 'disk' and display images and text and links. > Should mention i dont have any mips hardware but NetBSD is pretty easy to > get going. It's the bootstrapping that we need to get past. I believe the demo device we have has networking hardware on it, so once we have the minimum, we can just install stuff from ports. I need to get some more info on the hardware for you, I guess. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
