RE: NCPFS, anyone?
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> In my latest attempt, I changed the 2.5.40 Makefile to use the
> sparc64-linux-gcc compiler which I used to successfully compile
> 2.4.19. This time, the boot got past the 'Booting Linux' but perhaps
> my options are not set right because, after getting the black screen,
> the characters were unreadable.
The FB layer has been undergoing a lot of changes. Not sure what Vid card
the blade100 has, but my ati mach64 based one in the Ultra5 exhibited the
same behavior. At one point, I was actually looking at this, and James
Simmons had some modifications to his bk tree at
http://fbdev.bkbits.net/fbdev-2.5 alas, my job has mostly shifted here, and
I have been unable to get back to looking into this for some time to see if
his updates worked. YMMV.
> Linux eventually hung but, because of
> the unreadable font, I couldn't say where.
Also, is it IDE based? I was definitely having problems with IDE in 2.5
after 2.5.13. Not sure of the status of that yet either. Maybe you can
turn off framebuffer support, and see how far it goes?
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> Any suggestions for getting 2.5.x kernels running are appreicated.
> Otherwise, I'll have to try your patches on a 2.4 kernel.
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> Thanks for all you work and I look forward to testing.
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