Hi,
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Hmm, last time I used a floppy on my LongTrail, it did work (to my surprise,
since a few years earlier it was broken ;-)
Yes, CHRP had PC-style floppy controllers. And decent South Bridges used on PPC
(e.g. W53C883) usually support 32-bit ISA DMA.
The South
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:16:21PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
Hi,
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Hmm, last time I used a floppy on my LongTrail, it did work (to my
surprise,
since a few years earlier it was broken ;-)
Yes, CHRP had PC-style floppy controllers. And decent South Bridges used
Hi,
Gabriel Paubert wrote:
Hmm, the DMA controller is called the 8237. The 8259 is the PIC, aka
Painful Interrupt Controller.
Sorry! You are right, I always get those to numbers confused ;).
Once upon a while, Intel introduced a couple of PCI/ISA bridge with
enhanced DMA capabilities:
-
Quoting Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:31:42PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Quoting Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What Debian packages? ;)
The debian kernel packages.
There was/is no kernel packages! There's only a kernel and a root image:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 06:37:27PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
Bah, that means that the A1 people will again do their own hack for debian
support probably. Ah well, i don't really care.
There is no A1 people. There is just myself, Ken, and Turbo who own
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
So, please avoid the errors of your forgoers, and contribute those changes
back to debian, even if it really is too late for sarge.
I did, if you take a look at the debian-bf list, a short while after I
produced the patches for the Woody installer (last year). But no
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
There's a number of stuff that I'm not sure about...
Remember that the A1 version of 2.4.22 is based on 2.4.22-ben1 or
-ben2.
That was 2.4.21-benh not 2.4.22.
2.4.22 they supposedly based off a stock kernel, but I kinda doubt that
too (no idea what they based
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Finally, i will be releasing a 2.4.26 powerpc kernel package next week, so
please provide a diff against this one (kernel-source + powerpc patch).
Fair enough. I'll do 2.4.25 packages localy to test the kernel with, and when
you release 2.4.26 I'll 'port'
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:01:43PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
So, please avoid the errors of your forgoers, and contribute those changes
back to debian, even if it really is too late for sarge.
I did, if you take a look at the debian-bf list, a short while after I
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 11:03:32AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Quoting Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The 'linux-kernel-di-powerpc' package from the 'debian installer' will
depend on this (and the 'kernel-{image,modules}-2.4.25-amigaone' packages
which will in turn be built using
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
Yeah, but what about the debian packages ? And you could have asked for help
to clean it up, couldn't you ?
What Debian packages? ;)
I worked on this with others in late 2002, early 2003. At that time,
there were other people working on this, so it was assumed it
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:07:14PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
if you want a working floppy drive. The PPC version of floppy.h seemed
to be rather Apple specific, and dumped all the necessary stuff to use
PC floppy controllers without DMA (there is a problem using the ISA DMA
with the floppy
Quoting Ross Vumbaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sven Luther wrote:
So, please avoid the errors of your forgoers, and contribute those changes
back to debian, even if it really is too late for sarge.
I did, if you take a look at the debian-bf list, a short while after I
produced the patches for
Quoting Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What Debian packages? ;)
The debian kernel packages.
There was/is no kernel packages! There's only a kernel and a root image:
majorskan:/mnt/chroots/ppc-a1/image# find -type f
./boot/boot.cat
./boot/boot.img
Quoting Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Naturaly this is a semi-official Debian GNU/Linux effort! EVERYTHING will
end
up in 'official distribution'. That's the whole point.
Yeah, but you suffer from the let's make it perfect before we merge it in
syndrom.
True enough. Maybe that's a
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:31:42PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Quoting Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What Debian packages? ;)
The debian kernel packages.
There was/is no kernel packages! There's only a kernel and a root image:
Well, there should be.
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:24:34PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Quoting Ross Vumbaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sven Luther wrote:
Bah, that means that the A1 people will again do their own hack for debian
support probably. Ah well, i don't really care.
There will be NO 'debian only
Quoting Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There's a number of stuff that I'm not sure about...
Remember that the A1 version of 2.4.22 is based on 2.4.22-ben1 or
-ben2.
Ah. That explain quite a lot I guess. I already suspected a 'backport' of
some kind, but a 'fork' is more or less the same
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:24:09PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
What graphic card and thus fbdev are you using ?
The notorious radeon 9200se, but under 2.6.7 I'm not
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
That's not the correct fix. VGA_MAP_MEM() should take into account the ISA
memory space offset.
And in fact it does, cfr. include/asm-ppc/vga.h, just make sure to initialize
vgacon_remap_base with the correct ISA memory space offset.
There's
Quoting Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The 'linux-kernel-di-powerpc' package from the 'debian installer' will
depend on this (and the 'kernel-{image,modules}-2.4.25-amigaone' packages
which will in turn be built using the source kernel package above) to make
the installer aware of
Quoting Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
might be because you don't have ide=nodma in the bootargs. That way
lies pain and an eventual reinstall.
We suspect a faulty memory. I'll try your solution, and we'll see...
Update: Nope, 'ida=nodma' didn't do any difference. I'll have to wait for
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:45:38AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Quoting Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
might be because you don't have ide=nodma in the bootargs. That way
lies pain and an eventual reinstall.
We suspect a faulty memory. I'll try your solution, and we'll see...
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Quoting Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
might be because you don't have ide=nodma in the bootargs. That way
lies pain and an eventual reinstall.
We suspect a faulty memory. I'll try your solution, and we'll see...
Update: Nope, 'ida=nodma'
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
Also notice that powerpc is phasing out the 2.4.x kernels in favor of the
2.6.x ones, which will be installable by default, so if you would be able to
forward patch those, it would be really great, and we may even consider adding
them to the debian
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:14:01PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
Also notice that powerpc is phasing out the 2.4.x kernels in favor of the
2.6.x ones, which will be installable by default, so if you would be able to
forward patch those, it would be
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:14:01PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
Also notice that powerpc is phasing out the 2.4.x kernels in favor of the
2.6.x ones, which will be installable by default, so if you would be
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:24:09PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:14:01PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
Also notice that powerpc is phasing out the 2.4.x kernels in favor of
the
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:24:09PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
What graphic card and thus fbdev are you using ?
The notorious radeon 9200se, but under 2.6.7 I'm not using a console fb
yet, just a vga
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
* amigaone-2.4.25.patch.txt
This is the AmigaONE patch modified slightly for 2.4.25... It's ONLY the
AmigaONE relevant part.
Umm, looks like you've got Configure.help.orig in your non-A1 tree,
probably from a failed patch, and that forms 99% of
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
I got my AmigaOne yesterday, and I'm currently trying to install it with
the ISO @ SourceForge. However, I'm having some troubles with the IDE disk,
cable or something completley different - 'device not ready for command' or
something like that.
I got my AmigaOne yesterday, and I'm currently trying to install it with
the ISO @ SourceForge. However, I'm having some troubles with the IDE disk,
cable or something completley different - 'device not ready for command' or
something like that.
Quoting Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 06:21:17PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
I got my AmigaOne yesterday, and I'm currently trying to install it with
BAh, you should have gotten a pegasos 2 with full 2.6.7 kernel and
debian-installer support :)
the ISO @ SourceForge. However, I'm having some troubles
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 03:32, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
I don't see ANY damn reason why you need to drag that debate in here,
but let's just say certain other OSes doesn't have a problem marking DMA
buffers as non-cacheable.
Hehehehehe, that's getting funny :) (Note that I don't know
Hi,
Christoph Hellwig writes:
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
A significant amount of people have already written to tell me that if
they had been given boards for free it would have happened. Now, would
it, or would it NOT, help to have a BIT of money in that regard?
Although IBM has a
Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Since I'm no kernel hacker I'm not the guy to bug about this. Like I
said, I can help with patches to kernel-package and amiga-fdisk. Kernel
is not my field. I know
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
and it should be compilable with GCC 3.3.
Oooh, I didn't notice that. It's been fixed :-)
--
AmigaOne dev list FAQ (when I say F, I mean F):
http://www.samfundet.no/~olegil/amiga/
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:32:06AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Since I'm no kernel hacker I'm not the guy to bug about this. Like I
said, I can help with
Hi,
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Turbo Fredriksson writes:
Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE
in Debian GNU/Linux?
Implement it.
If the kernel source needs patching, try to get the patch into the
main kernel.org tree, or the Debian kernel-source package, or
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
BTW, i am curious, what is the latest status of the AmigaOne thingy, i
almost don't hear about those anymore, and since there were problems
with the buggy northbridge, i had a feeling that production stopped or
something such, but then my info comes mostly from
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:04:14AM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
BTW, i am curious, what is the latest status of the AmigaOne thingy, i
almost don't hear about those anymore, and since there were problems
with the buggy northbridge, i had a feeling that production
Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the
AmigaONE in Debian GNU/Linux?
There's a woody install/boot CD (basically a special kernel -
base kernel with AmigaONE patch?) on http://amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net/.
From what I remember, all one have to do is packaging the
kernel
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson writes:
Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE
in Debian GNU/Linux?
Implement it.
If the kernel source needs patching, try to get the patch into the
main kernel.org tree, or the Debian kernel-source package, or the
Debian kernel-patch-powerpc
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson writes:
Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE
in Debian GNU/Linux?
Implement it.
If the kernel source needs patching, try to get the patch into the
main kernel.org tree, or the Debian kernel-source package, or the
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:51:43AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
The firmware is U-Boot, so the kernel needs a bit of patching. Most of
the guys working on the Linux kernel got tied up in writing stuff for
AmigaOS4. It seems to me that unless one happens to be IBM or one of the
other big
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:51:43AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
The firmware is U-Boot, so the kernel needs a bit of patching. Most of
the guys working on the Linux kernel got tied up in writing stuff for
AmigaOS4. It seems to me that unless one happens to be IBM
Hi,
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren writes:
kernel-patch-powerpc (unfortunately, we don't have anything later than
2.4.22 at the moment. Trying to follow the kernel development with a
small team and no inside contacts feels like ice skating uphill)
Well, a number of people that can be considered inside
The firmware is U-Boot, so the kernel needs a bit of patching. Most of
the guys working on the Linux kernel got tied up in writing stuff for
AmigaOS4. It seems to me that unless one happens to be IBM or one of the
other big players getting more than a few lines into any of the places
Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
That has nothing to do with big players at all.
Ben.
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
image and outputs a bootable image)
That's crap. Fine for embedded maybe, but it should really be able
to load a plain
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 11:11, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
image and outputs a bootable image)
That's crap. Fine for
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
Can't uboot load the ramdisk separately like yaboot can ?
Duh, I must have misunderstood this then. So uboot is the bootloader
for AmigaOne? Then it should be taught to load an uncompressed kernel
and a separate ramdisk from a real root filesystem. Also,
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
Can't uboot load the ramdisk separately like yaboot can ?
Duh, I must have misunderstood this then. So uboot is the bootloader
for AmigaOne? Then it should be taught to load an uncompressed kernel
and a separate ramdisk
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
That has nothing to do with big players at all.
Are you saying I have more money than IBM? I would certainly hope not ;-)
Seriously, I think
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
Can't uboot load the ramdisk separately like yaboot can ?
Duh, I must have misunderstood this then. So uboot is the bootloader
for AmigaOne? Then it should be taught to load an uncompressed kernel
and a separate ramdisk from a
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
That has nothing to do with big players at all.
Are you saying I have
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
image and outputs a bootable image)
That's crap. Fine for embedded maybe, but it should really be able
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
That has nothing to do with big players at all.
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:16:40PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
I think you're reading a bit much into a small joke which even had a
smiled on it.
A significant amount of people have already written to tell me that if
they had been given boards for free it would have happened. Now,
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:04:52PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
I cannot BELIEVE how silly this discussion got, and so quickly as well.
It's likely to be me, so I'll just shut the fuck up now. Good bye.
Although IBM has a lot of money they haven't sent me a single piece
of hardware
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Since I'm no kernel hacker I'm not the guy to bug about this. Like I
said, I can help with patches to kernel-package and amiga-fdisk. Kernel
is not my field. I know MAI themselves were working on porting the 2.6
kernel, but I haven't heard a
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as mkvmlinuz,
called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk image and
outputs a bootable image)
The mainline 2.4 kernel is already patched to use mkimage to create a
uImage, it's
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Not really. I don't remember having seen your patch on linux-kernel or
linuxppc-devel either. Send me a pointer to the patches and I'll review
then and try to get them in. If you actually want the stuff maintained
in newer releases I'd need
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
Can I ask the idiot's question ( where can I subscribe to
linuxppc-devel ) please ? Google seems to think an embedded '-' is some
sort of wildcard these days.
Ken
Sorry, I see it's -dev, so lists.linuxppc.org
--
das eine Mal als Tragödie, das
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:35, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
That has nothing to do with big players at all.
Are you saying I have more money
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:20:14AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson writes:
Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE
in Debian GNU/Linux?
Implement it.
I think the kernel patch for those is more big than the pegasos one, and
i am not
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:51:43AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson writes:
Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE
in Debian GNU/Linux?
Implement it.
If the kernel source needs patching, try to get the
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Since I'm no kernel hacker I'm not the guy to bug about this. Like I
said, I can help with patches to kernel-package and amiga-fdisk. Kernel
is not my field. I know MAI themselves
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:11:11PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
image and outputs a bootable image)
That's crap.
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