Re: 68040 buserror patch
On 7 Oct, this message from Andrew McPherson echoed through cyberspace:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Michel Lanners wrote:
>> On 6 Oct, this message from Andrew McPherson echoed through cyberspace:
>> >> The patch applies with minimal intervention to 2.2.16 from mac68k CVS
>> >> and it seems to work (for me at least :). Would somebody with write
>> >> access to CVS please commit it?
>> >>
>> >
>> > OK, I applied the patch and it seems to work. ypbind runs now. :) I put up
>> > a kernel at ftp://macduff.dhs.org/pub/cvs/vmlinux-2.2.16-100500.gz. I'll
>> > commit the patch to CVS shortly.
>>
>> Though your kernel does run, it locks up on my Performa 475 after some
>> time (of inactivity?).
>>
>
> Hmmm.... that's not good at all. Question: Does your Performa still have a
> 68LC040 processor, or does it have a full 68040?
Regular 68040. Got it at work out of an old Texas Instruments Unix box
;-)
> Of course, if you have a regular 68040, then we've got a larger problem.
> :( It works on my 660AV quite nicely. I'd appreciate further feedback from
> 68(LC)040 owners on this to decide whether or not we should pull it from
> CVS.
I'll go about compiling kernels myself next. Anybody got experience in
cross-compiling m68k kernels on PPC? Do these kernels actaully work?
Cross-compiling should be a lot faster ;-), and I've got a
cross-compiler installed (gcc 2.95.something, IIRC).
Cheers
Michel
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