On 23 April 2013 01:47, Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Montag 22 April 2013, 17:00:07 schrieb Geert Lorang: >> On Mon, April 22, 2013 15:12, Graham Gower wrote: >> > I'm wondering if there is an install iso with a kernel that has >> > CONFIG_PDC_CONSOLE=y, so that I can install on a c8000. (Or am I >> > missing something, is there a way to get it to work without this?) >> > >> > Its kinda annoying if I've got to build a cross toolchain, cross >> > compile a kernel, tftpboot, nfsroot, etc. in order to put something on the >> > hard drive. >> >> AFAIK the C8000s have unsupported serial ports / network card. > > The network card is an e1000, which has a somewhat weird "checksum" for the > EEPROM. In newer kernels the driver knows how to handle that. For older > kernels you need to set the MAC by hand, but otherwise everything is fine. > > About the serial I'm not absolutely sure, but I think it worked. The only > thing I needed to change was to set the console to ttyB0 instead of ttyS0. > > Greetings, > > Eike Yes, I understand these issues. I went through the process of doing a gentoo install a couple of years ago. And I did so without an additional serial port. It just took ages to figure out getting all the bits built. I fired up my c8000 again yesterday, but noticed one of the disks is flakey so I can't log in now. A PDC_CONSOLE enabled kernel requires no additional serial port, it works fine over the serial port. But the debian/gentoo install kernels disable it for some reason. All you need to do is boot without a keyboard attached, with your serial port set at 9600/n8, you'll get the PDC stuff come up and be able to 'boot lan'. But if, like me, you don't have another fast hppa box to build stuff on, you'll need to: - build a cross hppa-linux toolchain - build palo bits with native toolchain and the 32bit hppa-linux toolchain - build a cross hppa64-linux toolchain - cross build a 64 bit kernel with hppa64-linux toolchain - smash your kernel and palo together in a lan boot compatible way - set up a dhcpd/tftpd/nfsd that all gel together for lan booting your parisc box. Needless to say, this can be time consuming and error prone. Which is why I'm asking... Does anyone have a PDC_CONSOLE enabled install iso? Or lan bootable image? -Graham -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
