Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Michael Schmitz
<schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
>>> I'd love to do some further testing. However, I haven't been able to
>>> boot 3.12 on my Amigas yet. Neither elgar (A4000) nor merlin (A1200)
>>> like to boot with 3.12. elgar seems to be stuck forever (it doesn't
>>> show any output beyond what you see), while merlin gets a kernel panic.
>>
>> Merlin crashes because of the futex_init() issue on '030.
>
> Thanks - in that case it might be better to apply the Blizzard SCSI commits
> to an earlier kernel version (they were done on 3.1o IIRC but should apply
> to earlier versions as well)?
If people are patching kernel sources for the Blizzard driver anyway, it
would be only a little bit of extra work to just apply the fix at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/11/141. Or disable CONFIG_FUTEX.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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-- Linus Torvalds
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