Re: [9fans] Loongson port, and 64 bit MIPS

2014-08-17 Thread cherry
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:24 AM, wrote: >> This kernel has an in-kernel bzfs including binaries like sam, acme >> and the compiler (so it is a little big in size). > > This is valiant (not dissimilar in intent from miller's 9pi) and > useful, but in my opinion you'll get a lot more support from p

Re: [9fans] Loongson port, and 64 bit MIPS

2014-08-17 Thread cherry
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:28 AM, wrote: >> Not yet. I am trying to get the hard drive up on the Yeeloong. Haven't >> looked at wifi. And USB will be the hard part for me... Hopefully it >> will be all supported. > > I need to ask: VGA? I'll come back to that when you respond. The laptop screen w

Re: [9fans] Loongson port, and 64 bit MIPS

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Miller
No offence at all - clarification was offered because I don't want to be credited with more than I've actually done. 9pi was a conservative (changing as little as possible) port. The usbdwc driver was born out of necessity, and probably a deadend because most usb host hardware follows one of the

Re: [9fans] Loongson port, and 64 bit MIPS

2014-08-17 Thread lucio
> Some confusion I think - 9pi image is Bell Labs distribution built with kernel > /sys/src/9/bcm and arm binaries, not from any separate source tree. > I do tend to shoot from the hip, I sincerely hope there were no unintended casualties as a result :-) That said, the build process for the insta

Re: [9fans] Loongson port, and 64 bit MIPS

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Miller
Lucio said: > USB you should probably adopt from 9pi rather than the Bell Labs > distribution Some confusion I think - 9pi image is Bell Labs distribution built with kernel /sys/src/9/bcm and arm binaries, not from any separate source tree. USB kernel driver for the pi was written specially for