Re: linux >= 2.6.18 kernel with aranym ethernet support?

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:38:37PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:45:17PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Hello 68k porters,
> > 
> > Is there a linux kernel 2.6.18 (or newer) with aranym ethernet support
> > available ? Or a patch to apply ?
> 
> I use 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 from etch-m68k. I haven't gotten it to work right
> from an initrd (some sort of framebuffer thing), but it works fine
> booting a disk image.  I haven't had success with the 2.6.21 kernels:
> 2.6.21-1-02 doesn't have ethernet and 04 hangs at scsi probing.

Excellent! I just got the official etch-m68k kernel and it booted fine.
The aranym ethernet support works fine too. Is it in upstream or in the
Debian patch ?

Unfortunately network performance are not good compared to 2.4.27.
It seems that the kernel stays idle instead of processing packets.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here.