On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Dave Jones wrote: > Can you repeat this with .17rc1 ?
Dave, first, I'm sorry for the random complaint. It was uncalled for. Obviously we wouldn't even be here if not for folks like you. Thank you. Yes, we'll try .17rc1 as we get time. The big effort this week is to try to get 2.4.13 to really work on the l440gx, we're having eepro problems again, the machine comes up and can send but not recieve RARP packets :-( FYI, another big problem we've had as 2.4 progresses is the gradual "bit rot" of the framebuffer stuff. The Cirrus Logic devfb stuff just sort of stopped working with 2.4.7 or so and has not come back. Same with the matrox stuff -- I am not sure what's happening here. I don't know if the other devfb is the same, but I'm wondering who I should relay this kind of experience to. We've missed having working devfb. It was wonderful while it lasted! The other thing we've seen here is that 2.4.16 won't work with Two Kernel Monte any more, we're not sure why. Everything up to 2.4.13 is fine. 2.4.16 just hangs, and that's when we found the vmware problem too. Something changed in 2.4.16 startup, and that's the main reason I don't recommend it for linuxbios-based systems. Maybe linuxbios should start contributing to regression testing with new kernel versions? Can we help somehow? Finally, I don't know if anyone knows this, but big chunks of MTD won't even compile from 2.4.13 on if you turn them on. If memory serves it's the flash translations layer stuff but I can get you more specifics. If you want to see yourself just turn ALL the mtd stuff on, about 25% of it won't compile. Thanks ron
