Subject: Re: MobilePro 780 troubles
To: Taras Glek <taras.judge@shaw.ca>
From: Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 06/23/2005 09:23:13
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 21:34 -0700, Taras Glek wrote:
> Ben Collver wrote:
> 
> >Hi Taras,
> >
> >The following patches against 2.0 may solve your stability problems:
> >
> >http://backyard.homeunix.net/~ben/docs/comp/unix/netbsd/patches/2.0/vr.c.diff
> >http://backyard.homeunix.net/~ben/docs/comp/unix/netbsd/patches/2.0/vr_idle.S.diff
> >
> >I kept some notes at:
> >
> >http://backyard.homeunix.net/~ben/docs/comp/unix/netbsd/mobilepro-780-notes
> >  
> >
> You mean 
> http://backyard.homeunix.net/~ben/docs/comp/unix/netbsd/hpcmips/mobilepro-780-notes 
> :)
> 
> Saw some good pointers there. Thanks
> 
> Too bad 2.0 doesn't work out of the box. I'll definetly try the patches 
> once I get my 780 to a more useful state.
> 
> How does one switch virtual consoles on the 780?
> 
> Thanks for the info,
> Taras
Replacing installer kernel with this
http://www.bodgit-n-scarper.com/download/netbsd.gz
and GENERIC kernel fileset with this
http://www.bodgit-n-scarper.com/download/kern-GENERIC.tgz
got me a working 2.0.2 on the MobilePro 780.

HTH,
-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)