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

[Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>]

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thanks! this is cool.

btw, the only supplier i can find is aliexpress. are there any others?



On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:07 PM, cherry <lunaria21@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello 9Fans,
>
> 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?)
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> Hope this message is useful.
>
> Thanks,
> -cherry
>
>

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