The current 2.6 kernel has a good support base for VR41XX processors, I am working with a 2.6.15 on a VR4121 MobilePro. I had some problems booting 2.6.16, but never really looked much into it, instead im still working on pcmcia support on my device. Try booting one of these and hooking up a serial console, after that it's a matter of having the right external device drivers. Most of the vrc4171 function drivers are out there and can be found easily; although if your device uses a different set of controllers for peripherals such as LCD, PCMCIA and sound then it might need some more work on your side. Ricardo On 6/12/06, Juergen Sell <juergen.sell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I did aquire such a device, by now 5 years old. From what I found searching various archives it might have had linux vr or linux mips support at one point around 2001 but this seem to be lost? (I even found a binay of a 2.3.99 linux kernel, but no docs, no config no modules, nothing else. So that seems pretty useless, right?) Anyway I would very much prefer Linux over the embedded win/ce. Now I am wondering whether any current pointers or configuration is available to get me started? A working kernel config file might be a good start (for a recent kernel perhaps?). By now I have a boot-loader that works under win/ce and loads from a cf-card (tested with the above mentioned linux kernel binary).
