On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:12:41PM +0100, Adan Kohler wrote: > Hello, > > I don't know if this is the correct mailing list for this type of question, > so please don't flame me :-): > > As I've read there's a need for testers for the current 2.6.15 kernel.
> I have an Amiga 4000 with CyberStorm PPC (68060 companion CPU) and a PIV > here in operation. Currently I'm running Linux APUS (i.e. a PowerPC > version) so I can't really provide much help since all software besides > the kernel is compiled for the PowerPC. The question is this: Does anybody You run an m68k kernel with a powerpc userspace? > know if the APUS kernel is still maintained or did it die with 2.4.27? > Because if there is no APUS support in the future I would just re-install > an 68k-system and could go into kernel testing, too... (even if I'll miss > the speed of the PowerPC, it doesn't make much sense to set on a system > that is no longer supported, does it?) Is there generally a testing demand > for this type of configuration or would I just be a high number on a list > of testers with the same hardware? I think APUS is still supported, but Sven will know all about it. I see powerpc-apus patches in the 2.6.15 svn which regularily conflict with m68k patches, so I assume there is still active development for apus. However, you are more than welcome to also test the m68k kernels. For basic testing, you would not even need a fully installed m68k system, although if you have a spare partition, that would not hurt either. For starters, you could simply boot the kernel with amiboot and maybe use the sarge installer boot floppy to see something happening. I would be very interested if, and how, you get the PicassoIV to work in your machine. I have one in my Amiga2000, and I never got any output from it in Linux, except from the integrated flicker fixer, but at a lousy resolution, fairly bad picture quality, plus a few lines at the bottom of the display are out of bounds for my monitor, which makes entering commands on the console a little difficult. I have no idea if PicassoIV is still supported in linux-2.6, but my problems might just be due to missing Zorro2 support, which would be easier to fix than if the board is not supported at all. Once I saw a PIV in action, I think in an Amiga3000, but that was just after the potato release I think, so probably with a 2.2 kernel, things have changed quite a bit since then. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
