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

[s . boutayeb]

Hi Sam,

Quoting Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden>:

> 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

Sure, this is a first shot!

Gnome is running and runs as expected!

For the record, here is the output from lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int
gfx)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE
port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE
port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE
port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE
port 3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE
port 4)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE
port 5)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE
mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780E [AMD 780E]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI
Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network
Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

I attached the output from hardinfo





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