Peter Cordes wrote:
There are a lot of PPC fixes that haven't been merged into Linus's tree. Have a look at http://www.linuxcare.com.au/paulus/kernels.html and http://www.fsmlabs.com/linuxppcbk.html. (The instructions for rsync given on the fsmlabs page don't work. I was able to get the kernel with bitkeeper, though. To compile it, I had to bk extract it to another directory, since bitkeeper has all the filenames as s.foo instead of foo.)
I tried to use rsync as stated on the fsmlabs page but it no longer works. It used to work at some stage because I rsynced an 2.3 kernel some time ago. I used the ftp method and it worked for me :)
I haven't gotten the enhanced RTC driver to work on my SMP powermac in any of the 2.4 kernels I've tried. I get unresolved symbols when linking if I try to put it in the kernel, or in rtc.o when I have it as a module. I've also had problems with building NFS or smbfs as modules with some kernels. (Are these known problems, or should I be telling people about this?)
I don't know about RTC. Never used it (knowingly). I have had problems with the sound driver. I had the Sound Support and PowerMac DMA Sound selected as modules but I didn't here any beeps in my gnome-terminals. If I select "Y" instead of "M", then I do get the bell sound in my terminals.
Brendan Simon.