Hi all,
I just updated the test kernel images and added a tarball including
some modules.
The kernel should now be able to boot from hard drive as well as from
ramdisks - on PowerBooks at least.
I also found an error relating the Performa support - it might at
least get to print something on the screen (you should try
'video=offb:ofonly' as well as 'video=valkyriefb').
Now the interrupt handling on PBs is much more stable as well as
faster - at least on my PB 1400. There's also serial port support now
- even serial console should work. And NuBus devices (internal
ethernet cards mainly) are supported now - my Focus EtherLAN 1400 is
working.
On my PB 1400 there's now Debian Lenny (Xfce + Lxde edition)
installed and in my opinion it's working better than Woody or Sarge
with 2.4 kernels. Even the Xfce desktop is usable - and I've also
been able to use iceweasel with acceptable performance. The x.org
server sadly failed to autoconfigure and even crashes in the attempt
to do so. I had to add the line:
Driver "fbdev"
to section "Device" manually after running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-
xorg".
I still get shutdowns (PMU cuts off the power) occasionally.
If you'd like to install the modules extract them to "/" and run
depmod after that. I didn't build netfilter modules because they fail
to do so on my HFS+ partition.
Please try that kernel images if you wish and report your results!
And well - I could need some support in programming...
Have fun,
Tobias
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