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Questions tagged [mips]

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How do I have Linux boot with a rootfs in RAM?

The rootfs is a squashfs image and my bootloader is loading it into some address in SDRAM. What parameters do I need to pass to the kernel so It can mount the rootfs from there? Squashfs support is built-in and it already works…
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How to debug a driver failing to bind to a device on Linux?

I am trying to figure out why the following device is not setup to its driver on my Creator CI20. For reference I am using a Linux kernel v4.13.0 and doing the compilation locally: make ARCH=mips ci20_defconfig make -j8 ARCH=mips…
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How to install Linux on the Playstation 2

Looking to learn about game development? Are you a Linux enthusiast looking to test the claim that "Linux runs on everything"? Perhaps you are a software developer who is looking to release for multiple architectures, and you don't have another MIPS…
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Looking for ARM- or MIPS-based computer (netbook or similar size) to play with

I am bored and want to play with a netbook or other small computer. Can anyone recommend something? Requirements: ARM or MIPS CPU Can run Windows CE 6 and/or Linux (preferably dual-boot) Linux distribution must be full-fledged (for the…
Andrew J. Brehm
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Generate MIPS architecture assembly code on a X86 machine

I need to generate MIPS specific code on my machine when I run my C program. When I simply run, gcc -O2 -S -c hello.c On my system, I get the hello.s which seems to generate some assembly code but it doesn't seem to be MIPS specific code. The…
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Networking and Samba from a quest OS running on qemu

I'm trying to test some software on a big endian system to ensure compatibility. My plan is to use qemu on Ubuntu 12.04 to emulate a MIPS system. So far I've been able to create the quest system successfully, but I haven't been able to network it…
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GCC (toolchain) for Ralink SoC - ELF not found and syntax error

I bought a Chinese P2P camera and there was no MJPEG stream, so I wanted to compile mjpg-streamer for it. Here's my CPU's info: # cat /proc/cpuinfo system type : Ralink SoC processor : 0 cpu model : MIPS 24K…
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How do I load initrd into memory to be passed to kernel when using kexec?

As the MIPS port of kexec doesn't support the --initrd param, I'm looking for workarounds to imitate the feature. According to Linux/MIPS wiki, MIPS kernels support rd_start and rd_size kernel command line arguments for specifying the location of…
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How to forward internet connection in QEMU?

Following the description on how to start an OpenWrt VM with QEMU, I downloaded the MIPS kernel and started it with this command: qemu-system-mips -kernel openwrt-22.03.3-malta-be-vmlinux-initramfs.elf -nographic -m 256 However there is no internet…
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What is the connection between jiffies and IPS? How to convert jiffies to IPS?

Reading from /proc/PID/stat a lot of information can be processed. I would like to see how many percentages has been used of CPU power by this process. There are a lot of variable around here (utime, stime, cutime, cstime, gtime, cgtime) but they…
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No more output is seen on the console after "Starting Kernel..."

I am trying a newer kernel on my Creator CI20 (v1), but if I try a Linux kernel version 4.11.1 I cannot get any output after u-boot. This leads to the following output: ci20# bootm 0x88000000; ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 88000000 ... …
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Host CFLAGS for cross-build of GCC

I want to build Rockbox from source for MIPS targets. According their the wiki I need a tool chain with binutils v2.17 and GCC v4.1.2 for the mipsel-elf target with CFLAGS="-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -fgnu89-inline". Here's the configure line for…
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how to make read only filesystem writable on busybox?

I want to change some files on my router. Firstly i can change everything in /var, but i want to change /etc/fstab. when i try to change it, i get an error message that says filesystem is read only. Busybox inside router, has limited commands, so i…
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bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw"

I just compiled the kernel 3.10.19 from kernel.org. Support for bnx2 is enabled. On my server when I try to start the eth0 interface I got the following error : bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw" In /lib/firmware/bnx2 I…
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How to understand the kernel panic core dump output?

This is the output I get when I run one of my applications: Kernel bug detected[#1]: Cpu 0 $ 0 : 00000000 00000000 0fffff00 0fffff00 $ 4 : c6800000 850b7780 8b0043c0 00000040 $ 8 : 000004ac 000004ac 00000002 844e8000 $12 : 00000000 feced300…
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