From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8998 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2004 18:11:12 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 28 Nov 2004 18:11:12 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CYTVw-0007AE-L4 for arch-gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:11:12 +0000 Received: (qmail 19685 invoked by uid 89); 28 Nov 2004 18:11:12 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-mips-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2484 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2004 18:11:11 +0000 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: andy set sender to afinley@gis.umn.edu using -f From: Andrew Finley Reply-To: afinley@gis.umn.edu To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <41A5443E.7060607@gentoo.org> References: <200411250216.iAP2Gi7m001947@challenge.software.umn.edu> <41A5443E.7060607@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: umn Message-Id: <1101665471.27092.4.camel@populus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 28 Nov 2004 12:11:11 -0600 Subject: [gentoo-mips] please disregard previous question X-Archives-Salt: 5df40c13-0a99-4d74-bb45-b7f2b3e5c21f X-Archives-Hash: 2c89e61f0e9f2178486569e05216226c On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 20:32, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Andrew Finley wrote: > > Thanks Steve, > > Ok, should this kernel go in the volume header then use arcboot? If I > > wanted to build a proper kernel, can I still use the kernel that comes from > > emerge-source (if so what build options should be used)? > > -andy > > > > Arcboot loads from the volume header, but it doesn't boot kernels out of > a volume header at all. Rather, it boots them from an ext2/ext3 > partition. So, you would put arcboot in the volume header, and then the > kernel on and ext3 or ext3 partition, set up the config file, and then > just do "boot -f arcboot" from the prom to get going. If you happened > to do something silly like make your entire filesystem reiserfs or xfs, > then you are out of luck with respect to arcboot. > > As for building your own ip32 kernel, you have to use 2.6 sources, which > you will have to unmask yourself. You can run "make ip32_defconfig" > inside the source tree, which will give you a base config to work from. > You can then enter menuconfig and tweak to your liking. Or, you could > get my config from /proc/config.gz when/if you are able to boot my > kernel, and then tweak that. In any case, you can't use the native > system compiler, since the kernel must be 64-bit. You will either have > to emerge gcc-mips64 (after making sure you are using the proper > cascaded profile), or build a mips64 cross-compiler on another machine. > > Steve > > -- > gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list