Re: mips64 on port-cobalt

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Markus W Kilbinger <mk%kilbi.de@localhost> 
wrote:
>>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> writes:
>
>    Matt> The kernel didn't exist until a few hours ago.
>
>    Matt> I put one at
>    Matt> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/matt/cobalt64.gz
>
> I tried to boot that kernel (uncompressed) on my otherwise unchanged
> Qube 2, but it failed some how:
>
>  Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
>  Built Tue May 25 15:58:41 PDT 1999
>
>   1.LCD Test................................PASS
>   2.Controller Test.........................PASS
>   5.Bank 0:.................................64M
>   6.Bank 1:.................................64M
>   7.Bank 2:.................................64M
>   8.Bank 3:.................................64M
>   9.Serial Test.............................PASS
>  10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY**
>  12.IDE Test................................PASS
>  13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
>  16.RTC Test................................PASS
>  BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hda1
>  Decompressing done
>  Executing bootloader kernel...
>  Decompressing -- done.
>
>  >> NetBSD/cobalt 5.99.22 Bootloader, Revision 0.9 [@0x80f00000]
>  >> (root@q, Fri Dec 11 12:55:36 MET 2009)
>  >> Model:               Cobalt Qube 2
>  >> Memory:              262144 k
>  >> PROM boot string:    root=/dev/hda1 ro
>  Boot [wd0a:netbsd]: cobalt64
>  Loading: wd0a:cobalt64
>  3809296+306360 [220800+211677]=0x456b34
>  Starting at 0x80001000
>
>  panic: CPU type (0xffffffff) not supported
>  Type 1 @0xffffffff80f11220
>  Type 2 @0xffffffff80f1122c
>  Type 3 @0xffffffff80f11284
>  Type 1 @0xffffffff80f11220
>  Type 2 @0xffffffff80f1122c
>  Type 3 @0xffffffff80f11284
>  Type 4 @0xffffffff80f11298
>  Type 5 @0xffffffff80f112a4
>  invalid bootinfo (standalone boot?)
>  panic: CPU type (0xffffffff) not supported
>  Type 1 @0xffffffff80f11220
>  Type 2 @0xffffffff80f1122c
>  Type 3 @0xffffffff80f11284
>  Type 1 @0xffffffff80f11220
>  Type 2 @0xffffffff80f1122c
>  Type 3 @0xffffffff80f11284
>  Type 4 @0xffffffff80f11298
>  Type 5 @0xffffffff80f112a4
>  invalid bootinfo (standalone boot?)
>  panic: CPU type (0xffffffff) not supported
>  [... and so on]
>
> What can I do/try next?

I tried it and got the same thing. Well, I presume I did, it was just
scrolling this stuff "forever".

I might give it a try on gxemul, I think they have an emulated Cobalt machine.

Andy