I'd say you've tried cvs kernel at the times when support for R4400 caches was broken. I put kernel I'm currently running at http://www.linux-mips.org/~ladis/vmlinux.gz (gunzip it :)), as you can see from dmesg at the end of this mail CPU used in your machine is the same. If kernel I provided doesn't boot for you I'd like to ask you for help with debugging (kernel was build from cvs updated at 8:30 CEST)
Wow, this booted. Several people I talked to thought it was originally a serial console issue. Judging by the several times I've chosen to build a kernel, it seems R4400 cache gets broken quite often. I'll run a cvs sync now and try to build my own kernel, since this appears to be built from recent code. Your kernel lacked a few things gentoo requires to boot, but it at least proves I'm not going insane over here.
This is known bug, but unfortunately I have not enough RAM to meet it...
A known bug? Interesting. I mentioned it many moons ago in #mipslinux, and Ralf seemed curious about it, but he said he looked in the kernel where the memory was detected and said he didn't see anything wrong there. Anything I can do to help look into this bug and possibly fix?
parport0: PC-style at 0x278 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ it can't work ;)
It worked fine for me with printing :)
[root@angband root]# echo "Hello World" > /dev/lp0 [root@angband root]# echo "Wow, It works" > /dev/lp0 [root@angband root]# echo "Totally Cool" > /dev/lp0
^--- All printed out on paper, although scratchy. I need new ink cartridges. Canon BJC-620
Mind you, that's an ISA Parallel Port card I dropped in. I noticed the SGI's parallel port never worked, so I dug up a spare and tried it.
--Kumba
