Debian (or anything else) on an Origin 200

2013-01-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
I've got an Origin 200 here which I was hoping to be able to use as a big-endian development machine. It came with IRIX which it runs OK, so I'm fairly confident in the state of the hardware. I stuck a Zip disk in it as a potential extra boot device but I find that the firmware doesn't much

Re: Debian (or anything else) on an Origin 200

2013-01-17 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-01-17 17:20:24 + (+), Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: [...] it appears to get lost at the point where I'd expect the kernel to start generating console output [...] I assume you're bootstrapping it via serial console. Is there any chance the kernel's console is defaulting to the

Re: [PATCH] build: Support building Loongson code for 2e, 2f, 3a

2013-01-17 Thread Matt Turner
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Hello Matt, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com (06/01/2013): On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Matt Turner matts...@gmail.com wrote: pixman/Makefile.am contains a hack that allows pixman-mmx.c to be compiled with different

Re: Debian (or anything else) on an Origin 200

2013-01-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2013-01-17 17:20:24 + (+), Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: [...] it appears to get lost at the point where I'd expect the kernel to start generating console output [...] I assume you're bootstrapping it via serial console. Is there any chance the kernel's console is

Re: Debian (or anything else) on an Origin 200

2013-01-17 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-01-17 19:44:41 + (+), Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: [...] So far I've not had any success with kernel options [...] It's been a few years since I did it on my Indy, but looks like you can just add append lines to arc.cf: http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/ARCLoad#Usage Could still

Re: Debian (or anything else) on an Origin 200

2013-01-17 Thread Jon Akers
Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2013-01-17 17:20:24 + (+), Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: [...] it appears to get lost at the point where I'd expect the kernel to start generating console output [...] I assume you're bootstrapping it via serial console. Is there any chance the kernel's console is

Re: Debian (or anything else) on an Origin 200

2013-01-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jon Akers wrote: Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2013-01-17 17:20:24 + (+), Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: [...] it appears to get lost at the point where I'd expect the kernel to start generating console output [...] I assume you're bootstrapping it via serial console. Is there any chance the

Re: Debian (or anything else) on an Origin 200

2013-01-17 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2013-01-17 19:44:41 + (+), Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: [...] So far I've not had any success with kernel options [...] It's been a few years since I did it on my Indy, but looks like you can just add append lines to arc.cf:

Re: Debian (or anything else) on an Origin 200

2013-01-17 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2013-01-17 21:42:19 + (+), Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Wasn't that only relevant for ARCLoad rather than booting directly [...] Right! Sorry, I missed you'd said that's what you were doing. I think the prime contender at the moment is that it's trying to talk to an non-existent