Jonathan Day wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone verify that the current kernel in > linux-mips git archive will work on a Broadcom 1250 > (SB1), specifically the "Swarm" or the "Sentosa" > flavours of the BCM91250. A 2.6.18-rc4 from a one week old git checkout works fine on a SWARM here, booted via tftp. The same kernel fails to boot on another SWARM board from the onboard IDE, I guess the swarm-ide is currently broken. > I have not been able to get anything more recent than > a 2.6.17 kernel to compile and boot, the 2.6.18-rc > kernels seem to randomly either lock up or reboot very > early on in the kernel initialization. However, I am > undecided whether it's a kernel issue, I presume you know that PCI devices and more than 1 GB of RAM don't work under Linux. > a hardware > issue (we've had nothing but trouble from these > boards) or a toolchain issue (versions: gcc 4.1.1, > libc 2.4, binutils 2.17.50) as I've found a few large > projects that should compile just fine are blowing the > compiler up. Hm, libc 2.4 means NPTL, that's not yet widely deployed and could well account for some exciting failures. > If someone can post (or e-mail me direct) on what the > latest combination of kernel and toolchain that works > on the Swarm is, I would greatly appreciate it. This > problem is driving me nuts. (Ok, more nuts than > usual.) Current Debian unstable works for me. Thiemo
