From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 22:15:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053D7106564A for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:15:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from juli@clockworksquid.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com (mail-ww0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C948FC15 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwd20 with SMTP id 20so606424wwd.1 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.145.20 with SMTP id b20mr7980974wbv.28.1282774547307; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:15:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: juli@clockworksquid.com Received: by 10.216.5.5 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:15:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100825.160214.864843819430707347.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20100825.151325.645538350615354761.imp@bsdimp.com> <32AB5C9615CC494997D9ABB1DB12783C024C8755B1@SJ-EXCH-1.adaranet.com> <20100825.160214.864843819430707347.imp@bsdimp.com> From: Juli Mallett Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:15:27 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ysDCji3D9BsCK0Cr-eT98gU-88k Message-ID: To: "M. Warner Losh" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: PMahan@adaranet.com, freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the MIPS kernel buildable from HEAD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:15:49 -0000 On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 15:02, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Juli Mallett writes: > : Hi Patrick, > : > : Those aren't errors per se; if nothing is happening after that, > : something else is wrong. =A0If you aren't using a recent U-Boot, I > : suggest installing a recent U-Boot. =A0If you are using a recent U-Boot > : and know how to recompile it, I can send you patches that might help. > : There is an unused data structure, linux_app_boot_info_t, which > : clobbers some of the memory used for launching multiple processors in > : U-Boot 1.9.0. =A0I have patches to remove it if you would like to give > : that a try. > > I've also noticed that each of the boards have a different load > address. =A0Maybe 200000000 isn't right for your hardware? If it were wrong you'd be (very unlikely) to see it recognized as an ELF fi= le. I don't understand you silly people who use addresses by hand instead of 0 which uses $(loadaddr) (only with Octeon U-Boot, though) which is usually correct for the board, anyway :)