On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:08:32 -0400
Daniel Clark wrote:
> So we now have a 3rd person who may actually have time to work on
> getting good accelerated siliconmotion for lemote yeeloong support
> into mainline xorg tree (Matt; also, Bernie may be back from exile
> from the US soon :-)
>
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>
>
> 2. Parabola GNU/Linux
[...]
> You will need to have another operating system running before
> installing Parabola. Due to the gNewSense installer being broken, it
> is probably easiest to do the install with Rescue Media (see above) or
> the Chinese variant of Debian GNU/Linux (see below).
Conn
> BTW, parabola calls its loongson distribution mips64el, which I don't
> understand yet, given they are not using n64, :-)
Both n32 and n64 require 64-bit CPUs and can use native 64-bit
registers, so there is something 64 in them. If I remember correctly,
Gentoo also used the mips64el name with
>> Someone on Parabola Hackers (cc:ed, but please remove it when replying to
>> avoid cross-post issues) mentioned that n64 would be good (at least to have
>> available somewhere) so more virtual memory could be used - the use case he
>> gave was that compiling and debugging some things requires mo
> I'm running vimprobable2 with webkit 1.4.0 in the fuloong (n32), and I get a
> SIGBUS
> (bad memory alignment I imagine).
>
> Has anyone experienced this and know a solution?
I use Parabola (N32) on a YeeLoong, changing
Source/JavaScriptCore/wtf/Platform.h to consider MIPS not only O32 and
disa
> And where could I find up-to-date patches for xulrunner, in case I wanted to
> use
> firefox? The upstream code doesn't build straight, for firefox 12 (as used to
> happen with previous firefoxes.
I don't know any. Parabola uses IceWeasel since IceCat (Firefox with
just different branding and
> The webkit (1.4.0) people use their own allocator for these objects; it says
> to
> align to 8bytes, but it might be broken. More weirdly, the same member is
> accessed in the TimerBase *constructor*, but nothing happened constructing.
The alignment is enabled only on specific architectures whe
> It's used *a lot*. It happens the same in ARM. In general, lots of code is
> full
> of unaligned accesses fixed realtime by the kernel. Mount debugfs, and check
> /sys/kerne/debug/mips/unaligned_instructions to see the counter grow! :)
> echo 2 to unaligned_action, and check your dmesg for a ful
> Parabola seems like the way forward. Gentoo also has some
> development happening, but they have not gotten the install to a
> point that even a pretty experienced Gentoo developer I know can
> do it. I have a Gentoo dev who owes me a physical hard drive with
> an install, but
> Does it have a free BIOS?
Except for the VGA ROM blob with data used for modesetting.
> Does does it require non-free firmware for the video or anything else?
For graphics acceleration; modesetting works without the firmware on
many GPUs (probably this one also).
pgpvxX6QGJVBU.pgp
Descriptio
> Is the Loongson 3A laptop (Yeeloong 8133?) free hardware?
"Free hardware" means hardware with a design that the user can change or
manufacture, not hardware that works without nonfree software. The lack
of public "source code" of the GPU or documentation of some of its parts
(e.g. the ISAs of m
> I just received my Loongson-3A laptop. I would like to install an
> alternative OS. Preferably, Debian Wheeyz, Parabola, anything really.
Both Debian and Parabola have userspace working on 3A and no kernel for
it. (Parabola didn't several months ago: due to the lack of English
documentation I
> [ 6243.992] (EE)
> [ 6243.992] (EE) Backtrace:
> [ 6243.992] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x78) [0x5eac28]
> [ 6243.993] (EE)
> [ 6243.993] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x3c4
> [ 6243.993] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [ 6243.993] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). S
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