Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gns running on Loongson 3A

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:33:52 +0100
schreef address@hidden:
> I installed gns 3 on a Loongson 3A hardware following the
> instructions in [1] (Debootstrapping gNewSense")and in [2]
> ("Compiling Loongson Kernel").
> 
> The system is installed on an usb key with 2 ext partitions.
> It runs from the boot.cfg file with following parameter:
> 
> title gns
>       kernel /dev/fs/address@hidden/vmlinuz
>       args console=tty quiet root=/dev/sdb2
> 
> This is a first try and the configuration should be fine-tuned and
> optimized. For instance, the cputemperature can be quite hot (approx.
> 85°C), which results apparently in a kernel panick in the next
> reboot, until th system get cooler and boots normally.
> 
> At the moment, there is no wifi, no swap partition, and no Xorg.

Promising, yet we'll still have a long way to go before it's user ready
then. Christophe tells us that 3A patches are going into Linux soon
[a]. That should make our job a lot easier.

[a]
http://gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS-3A?action=diff&rev1=12&rev2=13