From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 9 17:22:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A237737B401 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 17:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD5743F75 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 17:22:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7A0MEQX057077; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 17:22:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h7A0MDkw057076; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 17:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 17:22:13 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Greg Lewis Message-ID: <20030810002213.GA57014@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030809165159.GA26726@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030809165159.GA26726@misty.eyesbeyond.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netboot cross-compiled kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 00:22:15 -0000 On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:51:59AM -0600, Greg Lewis wrote: > I grabbed the 4.8 miniiso and unpacked it in a suitable directory and > put in an fstab with just a root NFS mount (for now). After setting up > bootp and tftp the machine does boot, only to have the GENERIC kernel > panic trying to mount root: You'll probably have a much easier time getting started with FreeBSD on Alpha if you're willing to just do a normal disk install. :-) The EB164 is well supported and you should have no problems running FreeBSD on it. > Is there something else I need to do when cross building, or does it not > work in 4.x? I did notice the cross-build compiles code with -mcpu=ev4 > where the CPU identifies during boot as: > > CPU: EV56 (21164A) > > Is this a problem? I.e. should I do the build with -mcpu=ev56? Not a problem. You'll get better performance with -mcpu=ev56, but all Alpha's can run ev4 code. > Its running SRM 4.8, although that seems to be working fine in terms of > the netbooting getting going and I'm loathe to upgrade unless I need to > after having bad experience trying to get SRM working on an LX board. Getting SRM inititally instaled on a machine with AlphaBIOS only can be a PITA -- but upgrading your SRM from SRM is quite straight forward and easy.