Bug#65309: UDMA66 boot floppies video problem
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In <[🔎] 20000608171430.A2167@gondor.apana.org.au>,
at "Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:14:30 +1000",
with "Bug#65309: UDMA66 boot floppies video problem",
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
herbert> On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:09:34AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
herbert> > > I was thinking more of woody, where (hopefully) initrd will be used and the
herbert> > > number of flavours should come down to one again.
herbert> >
herbert> > so how about for potato? this is somewhat release critical.
herbert>
herbert> Disable fb.
Then, according to your previous advice (which qouted in the mail below)
we should provide other kernels with -fb.
In <[🔎] 20000607215358.A19627@gondor.apana.org.au>,
at "Wed, 7 Jun 2000 21:53:59 +1000",
with "Bug#65309: UDMA66 boot floppies video problem",
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
herbert> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:32:35PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
herbert> > I do have a patch to allow run-time enabling of fbdev devices; however, I am
herbert> > reluctant to build kernels that do not use the official kernel source.
herbert> > Herbert, are you willing to patch Debian's kernel source for this? Please
herbert> > see bugs #56617/57129.
herbert>
herbert> IMHO the best way to handle this is to have separate kernel images for the
herbert> CJK releases, i.e., kernel-image-2.2.15-cjk or kernel-image-2.2.15-fb.
I think we should provide at least one kernel with fb support.
If the compact kernel will drop fb support, then I will prepare to build
and upload the kernel-image-2.2.15-fb based on kernel-image-2.2.15-compact.
And we have to build and upload the pcmcia-modules package to match with it.
I think if the fb-support patch which defaults not to use fb written
by Hatta and sent to BTS is used, then we does not need the separate
kernel & pcmcia-modules packages.
Our kernel-source has already some modifications from the official
kernel source from Linus:
kernel-source-2.2.15 for DEBIAN
-------------------------------
These patches were appllied:
* Big Physical Area (2.2.5)
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/fachbereich/AG/heiss/linux/bigphysarea.html
(quoted from README.Debian in kernel-source)
These modifications were also made:
* Fixed an overflow bug in stallion.
* Don't load a module that we're already trying to load (Chris Butler).
* Don't align the stack by 16 bytes on i386.
* Fixed a typo in tgafb.c.
* Added CONFIG_APM_DISABLE_BY_DEFAULT.
* Fixed a typo in aha152x.c.
* __asm__ fixes for egcs (hfmodem/refclock.c).
* Fixed a couple of argument processing bugs in main.c (Eric Delaunay).
* Fixed sparc64 crashes (David Miller).
Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
$Id: README.Debian,v 1.28 2000/04/25 05:32:18 herbert Exp $
The fbdev patch is not so different one from the CONFIG_APM_DISABLE_BY_DEFAULT
patch mentioned above. I don't know why the former can't be used while the
latter has been already used.
Please do not ignore the requirements for users.
--
Taketoshi Sano: <sano@debian.org>,<sano@debian.or.jp>,<kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
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