Re: Status

["Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 07:32:13PM +1200, schmitz wrote:
It seems I never sent my answer, the server ran out of memory while I was
typing this...

> Hi Geert,
> >On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 23:28, Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org> wrote:
> >>Then, after I return from the python summer school, I will switch to m68k
> >>again. But I have no working m68k buildd here. Two or three Amigas should
> >>power up, but the kernel problems I had on crest (ariadne driver) are still
> >
> >For the record: zorro8390 driver for Ariadne II.
> >(original Ariadne is working fine)
> For the record - even though the apne driver throws a watchdog
> panic, it still appears to work fine in 3.0.0, dropping hardly any
> packets with a flood ping (2.6.37 dropped loads of packets - tested
> by Tuomas). I was planning to test the genirq branch on the apne
> driver next.
> 
> If Christian can bring his Amiga back online I'm sure we can either
> bisect his ariadneII problem or at least check whether it behaves
> better in the genirq branch.
> From memory, it was possible to remotely install kernels on the
> Amiga and reboot it successfully remotely, Christian?

Yes, with the right mix of startup-sequences and kernels it was possible to
autoboot and even change the kernel remotely. Only when the kernel hangs you
have to reboot the machine via keyboard, it would pick the next kernel in
the list then. I will have to set that up again on crest (aahz is not yet
upgraded to the TLS kernel). However, this only works as long as nothing
goes wrong. One kernel crash, and you need to reboot manually (or could we
enable the watchdog in the kernel to automatically reboot?).

Christian