January 24, 2011

Well one Lemote Fuloong 2F system has already been given away, and the new owner has been asked to try and find out about them.

Some of you may be aware of some Lemote related resources on my devspace.  I’ll try to get some Fuloong 2F stuff up there,  but I’m flying blind as I don’t have one of these systems.  The netboot and LiveUSB image you see online is for its older cousin based on the Loongson 2E CPU, and won’t work on the Yeeloong or the newer Fuloong, as the graphic chipset and northbridge differ substantially. The stage 3 tarballs (MIPS I or MIPS III little-endian) will work however.

I’ve got one of the Fuloong 2Es onto the case now however, we’ll see what we can get achieved over the next few days.

Well, here I am.  Just registered and watching the stream flowing into the rego desk.  It’s not a queue, it’s the whole alphabet.  The only queue I’ve seen longer recently was the one to the checkout at the local shopping centre just before the flood peak.

Journey between The Gap and Kelvin Grove along Waterworks Road/Musgrave Road (to the Normanby Fiveways) took a bit over an hour, had a good conversation on the Mt. Cotton repeater, but evidently I’ve got a connection issue with the antenna.  That, and a bump just severed the connection between the battery and fuse holder, so I shall be riding home in silence tonight.  (Not the first time this has happened either.)

Not sure what to expect today, being my first time, guess I’ll find out.

On other news, Gentoo/MIPS I Big-endian stage 3 got uploaded last night.  Builds for other ISA levels continue.