[linuxsh-dev] Re: [linux-sh:01774] Re: Jornada

[Joseph A. K. <jk...@ea...>]

"Mark W. Alexander" wrote:
> 
> 
> My biggest success was this morning with shlo, an empty initrd and a
> kernel for the hp690. It flashed repeatedly and would not stop until I
> managed to hit the hard reset combination at just the right time. The
> good(?) news is that somthing did hit the serial port, writing
> gibberish to my minicom session and disabling all keyboard and mouse
> I/O to the desktop machine until I performed a cold boot. Telnetting
> in and doing a warm reboot still did not reset the keyboard and
> mouse. Something definitely came out of the serial port. (I think was
> "Gozer the Destructor".)
> 
> Yes, at the stage I'm at, I'm calling this success. Ok, maybe just
> "progress". But I think it's saying if I knew what _really_ goes in
> shlo.txt I could probably get a serial console session going.

Serial output! You lucky dog. The best I was ever able to do
was to get my 430se to soft-reset. That was with shlo and
a kernel I'd hacked to use the "generic" inb/outb functions.
I built an uncompressed kernel and pointed the start symbol
in shlo.txt at the beginning of the .text segment, but I'm
not at all sure that was the right thing to do.

-- Joe Knapka
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