Hi there, as this is my first post, i'd like to introduce myself, although it may be a bit off-topic ;-) My pseudonym is FAKE, i'm from germany and proud owner of an Indigo2 R4k. I just found enough time (thanks, santa) to fire up linux on it. My System is: Indigo2, ~160MB RAM, GR3-XZ Gfx Board, R4400 proc. this is my /dev/cpuinfo: system type : SGI Indigo2 processor : 0 cpu model : R4000SC V5.0 FPU V0.0 BogoMIPS : 74.75 byteorder : big endian wait instruction : no microsecond timers : yes extra interrupt vector : no hardware watchpoint : yes VCED exceptions : 23868 VCEI exceptions : 32852 (the PROM hinv says i have a R4400 and a FPU ... is cpuinfo right?) Anyways, i want to contribute, and so i got the 2.5.1 kernel from oss.sgi.com via cvs and compiled it. it boots, but exactly when the scsi-driver is about to add the disk it oopses and i get the message <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000, epc == 880db32c, ra == 880 db270 Oops in fault.c:do_page_fault, line 204: .... ( insert useless stack trace here, becuz of non-saved system map *dough*) sorry for not saving the System.map >_< i'll check in more deeply if i get oopses in future. then i compiled 2.4.14, it worked, but somehow debian didn't like it, but that's not the kernel's fault. Anyways, now i compiled the 2.4.16 and everything just works fine - except devfs and the ARC console. Devfsd says: Error getting protocol revision Inappropriate ioctl for device and the ARC console (one thing i especially want to get to work) behaves strange: As the kernel starts writing output the PROM console adds black lines to the screen, whilest the data from before the kernel started output (boot linux console=ttyS0... etc) nicely scrolls UP........ what to do? i tried to find information about the PROM on oss.sgi.com and toolbox.sgi.com, but both seem _DAMN_ outdated (the newest "news" are from 2000 or something) so i'm stuck.... i would enjoy helping, but i'm still learning, as i am very new to the mips platform... i have some experiences with linux/the kernel in general on the intel32 platform. well, plz reply, so i can start coding ^-^ greetz & thanx in advance FAKE
