Subject: Re: Snapshot 20030919 available
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: Alexander V. Nikolaev <avn@altlinux.org>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 09/20/2003 17:58:12
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:49:53AM +0900, Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:14:10PM +0400, Alexander V. Nikolaev wrote:
> 
> > Have I any chances to adopt latest O2 related changes to my r10k based IP28?
> > (I mean r10k related patch, seen in this list about month ago)
> 
> Unfortunately, the IP28 boot ROM will only load mips64 executables.  One could
> theoretically compile a mips64 kernel, but the mips port isn't rigged for
> 64-bit anything at this point.
>
What with cache coherency problem? Are this problem is avoided?
 
> The right thing to do is to make an intermediate bootloader that speaks
> bootp() and loads mips32 binaries.  I've started working on this and will
> make a binary available for testing soon.
> 

When loader will be avail I can test it in my Indigo2.

Please, keep me informed. I am not very expirienced in mips low level 
programming, but have interest to this projects (both 64bit loader or 64bit 
kernel)