synthead 7 months ago
The stock Arch kernel and glibc run on the Transmeta Crusoe CPU without any problems now. If you're running into difficulty, don't hesitate to say something on freenode-dot-net's #archlinux or post a thread on bbs-dot-archlinux-dot-org (what is up with YouTube blocking links?).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_QQchhMqHo
From what I gather TSC is a register where cpu since pentiums store the number of clock cycles since it powered up and fast tsc calibration is used during the cpu identification/autoconfiguration step of the boot process or something.
The only things I could try is kernel parameters, I found a suggestion to use clocksource=apci_pm but it didn't help.
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going through kernel parameters at https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentatio … meters.txt I noticed this, i'll give it a try.
tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Format: <string>
[x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
disables clocksource verification at runtime, as well
as the stability checks done at bootup. Used to enable
high-resolution timer mode on older hardware, and in
virtualized environment.
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Trying tsc=reliable and notsc kernel parameters brought no change to the situation.
But there is also information that a patch appeard to linux kernel, that made possible it's use, by kind of turning it into a i686. There is also an information that it was added to the official archlinux kernel, but i really don't know if it still remanes.
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]]>what did I do before the problem occur:
I got the installation image onto a thumbrive following the wiki instructions.
the problem:
when choosing to boot to arch from the boot menu, the process get stuck at the beginning with a TSC calibration error and the computer stays hanging there, keyboard doesn't work.
Any idea how to fix this ? Also is there some documentation for installing arch on a transmeta I missed or should I simply refer to the regular wiki entry for installing arch ?
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