Subject: RE: itronix Husky FEX21
To: Matthew Orgass <darkstar@city-net.com>
From: Andrew&Wendy <andrew@rubydemon.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 07/19/2005 22:50:02
Thanks for the info.

Sounds like a general malaise.  The bootloader seemed to work, but
the reboot froze everything up (left it for 30 mins just in case
it was a super slow boot, definitely a problem).  Guess there's a
list of experiments in the offing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Orgass [mailto:darkstar@city-net.com]
Sent: 19 July 2005 22:44
To: Andrew Addison
Cc: port-hpcmips@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: itronix Husky FEX21


On 2005-07-19 andrew@rubydemon.com wrote:

> I've been trying to get my Husky FEX 21 running netbsd/hpcmips.  It has a
half
> vga (640x240) colour screen, MIPS TX3922 running at 129MHz, 16MB ram,
running
> HPC-2000, 1 compactflash port, 2 pcmcia sockets, irda, a keyboard (open
book
> style) and stylus.  It doesn't use a floppy or hard drive, but I managed
to
> load up as much as I could on to a 1GB CF card and had a go with the
nearest
> machine I could see that might be compatible (I guessed a sharp Mobilon
HC-
> 4500 was the nearest... incorrectly, but all I needed to do was a hard
reset).

  Last time I tried booting NetBSD on my PenCentra 200 (a TX3922 system)
it didn't even get to printing the copyright, and I don't think anything
has changed since then.  I have not been able to load anything past 1.5 on
it, although I haven't tried very often.  I suspect this is a generic
TX3922 issue (I was going to try to blink the led first thing in the
kernel to see if it gets that far, but haven't got around to it yet).  If
you use hpcboot, be aware that not all of the entries in the menu actually
correspond with settings (there is a list in one of the source files under
arch/hpc/stand/hpcboot; only those that match that list have settings).

Matthew Orgass
darkstar@city-net.com