Hello all, after deciding to abandone developing of 2.6.18 (because of a few incompletenesses in the powerpc architecture) I decided to give the latest stable kernel version a try 2.6.30.4 by then and out of the box it worked much better than 2.6.18 - for the powerpc architecture being more mature for 32 bit machines. First I tried to get my changes into a branch of the existing git repository of the 2.6.15 ppc architecture. But I failed - due to a timeout of the ssh session as I now know. And as sourceforge yesterday set up the possibility to have multiple git repositories per project I created a separate one:
git://nubus-pmac.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/nubus-pmac/linux-2.6.3x Until now only PB1400 and 5300 will work and only when booted using MkLinux Booter (MachKernel images). Drivers that have been ported are PMU (including ADB), PowerBook interrupt controller (instable), IDE controller (harddisk only), video (using offb generic framebuffer driver - no need to use a special one). I hope to get CD-ROM support and a stable interrupt handling working soon. All in all it is now much easier adapting the platform and device drivers for our NuBus machines as kernel and platform structure is much more mature now than it was in the 2.4 kernels. Everything is cleaner and the way to go is much more straight forward and no need anymore to use any dirty hacks. Well, that's my impression and opinion. The most important thing to be done yet is to make the second stage boot loader able to change the flat device tree to provide the correct parameters for video, ramdisk and command line automatically before entering the kernel. Until now I hard-coded that parameters directly into the flat device tree. I didn't test yet if compiling the flat device tree directly into the kernel is working - although I don't know why it shouldn't. But how to pass a ramdisk to the kernel in that case? Any help welcome! Tobias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
