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I have an extra gdium pcb board with uart interface from fred. Thanks .
Today I try to compile the kernel by myself and the new kernel works well except for network card. I can not see eth0 using ifconfig command. Then I check the pci list of my gdium PCB and find the RTL8139D [...]

Mar 28th, 2009 | Filed under loongson
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New version of qemu does not support MIPS host anymore.
For the sake of portability, the new version of qemu uses TCG, a tiny code generator, instead of dyngen to generate host code. That means one backend is needed for each host architecture. There are i386,x86_64,ppc,ppc64 and hppa backend in TCG, but MIPS is not on [...]

Mar 26th, 2009 | Filed under emulation, loongson

Although Vincent has given us a how to article of debian on gdium, but there are some detailed things missed. So I rewrite it here with some more detailed steps.
(1) Prepare the new USB disk
Format the new USB disk with at least tow partitions, one is ext2 partition for the root file system and the [...]

Mar 20th, 2009 | Filed under loongson

This morning I eventually received my gdium liberty 1000 from zjs express, nearly 5 days after its shipping! Last time I use sf express to ship my mp4 player to Beijing in less than 2 days. I understand, because of the battery stuff can not be shipped by airline, but 5 days is excessive for [...]

Mar 16th, 2009 | Filed under ARM/MIPS, loongson