Re: 2.6.x-amiga kernel + misc.
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> So I finally put the PIV into my Amiga2000. In AOS it works pretty well, the
[...]
Amiga 2000. So this is the Zorro II version of the Picasso IV? Or is it the
Zorro III version in a Zorro II slot?
> In Linux it does not work that well yet. The scandoubler still works, so I
> get a colour picture on my monitor and do not have to use special hardware
> like my FBAS to VGA converter anymore! But I could not get any PIV modes to
> work yet. I tried 2.4.27 with the clgen driver, the kernel says no supported
> hardware detected, I tried 2.6.8, with clgen and cirrusfb as a module,
> nothing found either it seems. Do I need other boot options for cirrusfb?
> The 2.6.8 kernel-images include only very few video drivers, simply because
> they do not compile, a few compile as a module though. Is that intentional?
> Probably the kernel would become even larger when more drivers are built in,
> but how do I switch to another fbdriver then? I tried fbset in 2.6.8 after
> loading the cirrusfb module, but that framebuffer did not show up in fbset.
> With linux-2.2.25, clgen does not find a supported board either. Since I
> heard that Picasso should work at least with 2.2.25, I assume this is a
> ZorroII problem again? The board does show up with lszorro, but the kernel
> does not detect it?
Apparently clgen/cirrusfb support the Zorro III version of the Picasso IV only
:-(
Probably there are not that many differences, except for the memory and
register mappings. Unfortunately Klaus is no longer around to ask :-(
What does `lszorro -v -v' show? Anyone with the Zorro III version around to
compare?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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