Am Mon, 30 Okt 2000 18:05:57 schrieb Martin Maciaszek: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:01:28PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Am Mon, 30 Okt 2000 13:09:08 schrieb Martin Maciaszek: > > > I tried to install GNU/Hurd on my computer. AFAIR Hurd supports > > > the Adaptec AHA-2940UW. So I unpacked the tarball. Unfortunately > > > the kernel doesn't boot very far. It detects the Adaptec but > > > hangs there. From Linux I know that the next step would be to > > > detect the devices attached to the Adaptec. But nothing happens. > > > > The version of the linux driver we use is quite old and broken. > > You experience the same problem here as with linux two years ago. > > You can try to update the 2940 driver in gnumach and cross compile > > your own. Try the latest driver of the 2.0.x series, and let us know if > > you have success. > > > Oh, that's too much work for now. I don't have enough place to > compile a cross-compiler. I guess I'll have to wait until the > driver is officially updated.
As you probably already have a compiler for i386 linux, let me tell you that with make-cross, you can have a compiler in a couple of kilobytes (not megabytes). And, gnumach can be compiled with the linux compiler as well. Marcus
