Re: APUS still supported?
On 12.02.2006, Christian Steigies wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:12:41PM +0100, Adan Kohler wrote:
>> Hello,
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> I think APUS is still supported, but Sven will know all about it. I see
> powerpc-apus patches in the 2.6.15 svn which regularily conflict with m68k
> patches, so I assume there is still active development for apus. However,
> you are more than welcome to also test the m68k kernels. For basic
> testing, you would not even need a fully installed m68k system, although
> if you have a spare partition, that would not hurt either. For starters,
> you could simply boot the kernel with amiboot and maybe use the sarge
> installer boot floppy to see something happening. I would be very
> interested if, and how, you get the PicassoIV to work in your machine.
> I have one in my Amiga2000, and I never got any output from it in Linux,
> except from the integrated flicker fixer, but at a lousy resolution,
> fairly bad picture quality, plus a few lines at the bottom of the display
> are out of bounds for my monitor, which makes entering commands on the
> console a little difficult. I have no idea if PicassoIV is still supported
> in linux-2.6, but my problems might just be due to missing Zorro2 support,
> which would be easier to fix than if the board is not supported at all.
The code for PicassoIV is included in clgenfb (2.4.27 kernel) as well as
cirrusfb (2.6.15 kernel). With a little luck, you should be able to use it
once we found out how to tell the 2.6 kernel that it should use cirrusfb
instead of afb.
> Once I saw a PIV in action, I think in an Amiga3000, but that was just
> after the potato release I think, so probably with a 2.2 kernel, things
> have changed quite a bit since then.
>
> Christian
>
>
Best Regards,
Peter
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