Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)
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 able to
> > > forward patch those, it would be really great, and we may even consider adding
> > > them to the debian kernel package, altough i fear what Christoph will have to
> > > say from a 1.8MB patch. Is all this really necessary ?
> > >
> >
> > For 2.6 I'm down to about 200KB, which I think includes some of the
> > original A1 files that I'm not using (e.g. _time merged into _setup as a
> > preliminary to using todc_time). This is without e.g. the floppy stuff
> > and the so-called dma fixes. If it can be made to work, I guess 200KB
> > or less (which is still rather a lot).
>
> Ok. Still too much though, but i guess there is no chance of it changing.
>
> > > Bah, please don't go the same way this happened last year, and have a thought
> > > at providing the packages back upstream, altough i believe it may well be too
> > > late for the sarge release by now, at least for debian-installer which is very
> > > near the release.
> > >
> > > Friendly,
> > >
> > > Sven Luther
> > >
> > Agreed, if it doesn't eventually get merged then it isn't worth doing.
> >
> > I've heard the people at mai are issuing a binary 2.6.6 to their
> > testers, whoever they might be, but they aren't exactly communicative.
>
> He.
>
> > My own attempts on 2.6.7 are at a very early stage and have certain
> > difficulties (page-up in 'less' locks it, coming out of X gives a
> > non-legible screen, and the rtc stuff isn't working properly yet).
>
> 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 console. X11R6.7.0 just recognises the card and works
without any of the old magic incantations.
> > But then, I was never cut out to be a kernel hacker. Looks like I'm
>
> Bah, it is like that that one learns. I started the same way, cleaning up the
> old POP patches.
>
> > unlikely to get back to 2.6 before September, unfortunately.
>
> Too late for sarge anyway, but tell us when you have progress. That said,
> consider using the debian-kernel mailing list for this kind of stuff.
>
Actually, I'm mostly not a debian user, I'm only really here for help
with my iBook. In the meantime, anything I do with the A1 kernel will
initially be announced on the a1linux group at yahoo, and at
amigaworld.net, I don't see any point cluttering this list with it until
there is something more usable for people to look at.
Ken
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