Hi All, as exclaimed in the Subject, I have now a 64bit Kernel booting into /bin/sash on my IP28. Unfortunately, it crashes immediately at the first keystroke. In Detail, I used the following software: - Current binutils CVS with my patch to partially support mips64-linux (It's barely enough to build a Kernel). - An GCC CVS snapshot of 2001-05-01 (later ones do not work) with a patch from Ralf to support R10000 and an patch to make it bootstrap for mips64-linux. - Current linux oss CVS with a large patch for mips64 support. I got with this: - A real 64bit Kernel image without linker crashes etc. No objcopy tricks, the Kernel is loaded at 0xa800000000000000. - The Kernel uses new-style interrupts (the old ones were confusing and crashed on my first attempts to use the serial console). - The sgiseeq ethernet works, it gets the bootp parameters and allows nfs-mounting the rootfs. - The serial console seems to work also, as good as it can be predicted with an immediatly crashing init-shell. Thiemo Setting $netaddr to 10.0.0.5 (from server rembrandt) Obtaining from server rembrandt 1750448+278528+259632 entry: 0xa8000000201b4000 ARCH: SGI-IP28 PROMLIB: ARC firmware Version 64 Revision 0 Linux version 2.4.5-1 (ths@rembrandt) (gcc version 3.1 20010501 (experimental)) #52 Sat Jul 14 15:46:49 CEST 2001 Loading R10000 MMU routines. CPU implementation 9, CPU revision 37 Primary instruction cache 32kb, linesize 64 bytes Primary data cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes Secondary cache sized at 1024K, linesize 128 MC: SGI memory controller Revision 5 On node 0 totalpages: 262144 zone(0): 262144 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: rw init=/bin/sash Entering 64-bit mode. calculating r4koff... 000d5ba8(875432) Console: colour dummy device 80x25 zs0: console I/O Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530), 9600 baud Calibrating delay loop... 174.89 BogoMIPS Memory: 488192k/917500k available (1709k kernel code, 429308k reserved, 132k data, 88k init) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v1.8 initialize_kbd: Keyboard failed self test pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? DS1286 Real Time Clock Driver v1.0 streamable misc devices registered (keyb:150, gfx:148) block: queued sectors max/low 321560kB/190488kB, 960 slots per queue sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com) eth0: SGI Seeq8003 08:00:69:0b:35:da SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 wd33c93-0: chip=WD33c93B/13 no_sync=0xff no_dma=0 debug_flags=0x00 setup_args=,,,,,,,,, Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Jul 14 2001 at 15:41:11 wd33c93-1: chip=WD33c93B/13 no_sync=0xff no_dma=0 debug_flags=0x00 setup_args=,,,,,,,,, Version 1.25 - 09/Jul/1997, Compiled Jul 14 2001 at 15:41:11 scsi0 : SGI WD93 scsi1 : SGI WD93 SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.01 ttyS0 at 0xbfbd9830 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530 ttyS1 at 0xbfbd9838 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) Sending BOOTP requests . OK IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 10.0.0.1, my address is 10.0.0.5 IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0, addr=10.0.0.5, mask=255.0.0.0, gw=10.0.0.1, host=10.0.0.5, domain=, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=10.0.0.1, rootserver=10.0.0.1, rootpath=/home/linux-mips NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 10.0.0.1 Looking up port of RPC 100005/2 on 10.0.0.1 VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem). Freeing prom memory: 1024kb freed Freeing unused kernel memory: 88k freed Stand-alone shell (version 3.4) >