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

[Fausto Saporito <fausto.saporito@gmail.com>]

Yep it's cool!
I have one from Tekmote (supplier for all Europe).
They have also a laptop with Loongson 3 (full MIPS64).

2014-08-15 6:41 GMT+02:00 Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>:
> thanks! this is cool.
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> btw, the only supplier i can find is aliexpress. are there any others?
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> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:07 PM, cherry <lunaria21@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello 9Fans,
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>> I just got a Loongson 2F machine (Yeeloong 8089A laptop) (MIPS LE), so
>> I extended my previous Loongson 2E port (32 bit) to run on it. Now
>> both machines can run Plan 9. Specific to 2F laptop, the keyboard,
>> mouse, screen and ethernet are supported. The hard drive is supported
>> only on 2E. USB does not work yet on either machine. And for the
>> userland of MIPS LE, all the commands built and seem to work okay,
>> including acme and page. If anybody interested, check it out at
>> https://bitbucket.org/cherry9/plan9-loongson
>> (lucio, is it the same machine as yours?)
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>> Currently the 2F kernel specific bits are kept in a separated
>> directory. It is quite similar to 2E but I haven't tried to unify both
>> kernels. Bind it before the 2E sources to use it.
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>> As a separated message, upon minux's request, I started to look into
>> 64 bit MIPS. Both 2E and 2F machines are 64 bit, though R4000-ish, not
>> standard MIPS64. Currently I build the compiler, 4c, based on the old
>> one from /n/sources/contrib/tim, now at
>> https://bitbucket.org/cherry9/4c
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>> With this compiler, the 64 bit kernel is in progress. For now, it
>> boots on my 2E machine, with serial console only. I haven't got time
>> to look into any device drivers. PCI space is 32 bit... Will do it
>> ASAP.
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>> Hope this message is useful.
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>> Thanks,
>> -cherry
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