etch on aranym, was Re: [buildd] Etch?
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Petr Stehlik wrote:
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> I have installed woody, sarge and even early etch on ARAnyM but
> unfortunately it was not running stable enough. I suspect there is a
> minor bug somewhere in CPU or hardware emulation (that doesn't appear
> under other Atari operating systems!) that causes the instability. I
> haven't been able to track it down, though.
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> It's a pity since I got even the ethernet networking working so it would
> be real easy to use ARAnyM as a debian build machine.
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> In the following message (Feb 2006) I explain how weird it behaves:
> https://lists.bobek.cz/pipermail/cz-bobek-lists-aranym/2006-February/008657.html
That thread didn't seem to generate much sympathy... the aranym devs
probably need a workload that consistently triggers the bug? Is it
difficult to reproduce the bug?
In that thread you have a link to aranym-linux-kernel-2.4.27-12.tar.gz. Is
the latest kernel not working on aranym?
-f
> Few simple steps to get the linux-m68k (actually Debian Sarge) running on
> ARAnyM: http://wiki.aranym.org/manual#linuxm68k_on_aranym
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> Petr
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