I think a safe way to try is use a ram version pmon(make tgt=ram) first. The ram version can be loaded from disk or network at old pmon command line. If the functionality is ok, the updating of pmon itself is quite safe.
Regards ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "David Kuehling"<dvdkh...@posteo.de>; Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 09:41 AM To: "loongson-dev"<loongson-dev@googlegroups.com>; Subject: [loongson-dev] Using latest Debian Loongson-3 kernels on a XingHuo 3A "Spark" Hi, I'm running a Xinghuo 3A Desktop machine, currently with a kernel 3.5.0-9 built from Lemote's sources. I stopped upgrading to newer kernels, as these seemed to require a Bios upgrade which I feared to brick my machine. Now Debian Jessie also has a 3.16 kernel for Loongson-3A in its package repository. How are my chances to make these run on my Xinghuo machine? Any simple-to-follow guides about how to safely upgrade the Bios on these machines? Any known-good kernels that I can safely use for booting into the system after an upgrade? thanks for any info, cheers, David -- GnuPG public key: http://dvdkhlng.users.sourceforge.net/dk2.gpg Fingerprint: B63B 6AF2 4EEB F033 46F7 7F1D 935E 6F08 E457 205F -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to loongson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to loongson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
