El sáb, 06-03-2004 a las 09:54, Sven Luther escribió: > On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 12:35:33AM +0100, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > > El mié, 03-03-2004 a las 09:20, Sven Luther escribió: > > > Hello, > > > > > > > Hi > > > > > I have just uploaded the 2.5.25-1 kernel, and as it is NEW, made it > > > available at : > > > > > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.25-1 > > > > As a comment, I prefer a heavy modular kernel (like the x86 .deb ones) > > but I'm not able to compile such kernel so I know it's not as easy to do > > like x86 kernels. > > Please have a look at the powerpc-small kernel. It is primarily geared > at the oldworld pmacs and its floppy based miboot booting, but there is > no reason it could not be used more generally. > > In fact, it was ever the intentions to move to this kernel once it has > been more widely tested, so please go ahead, and please provide feedback > on it. > > The main problem is that i don't yet have discovered the trick to build > the initrd which contain the modules, since if you are going to move the > ide & scsi & network modules to an initrd, you also need it for booting. Yes, my problem is with initrd and thus I cannot test that kernel if the I cannot load the initrd image :-( I will look at this in my spare time, we should get it working... > > > I'm just using your packages now instead of my own compiled kernel with > > an iMac TFT 15" and it seems to be working with only one problem, you > > have compiled the lpt port and the imac does not have such port, the > > problem is that sometims it hangs the machine when discover or cups > > tries to load the parport_pc module :-( > > Mmm, this would be a bug in the discover or cups packages, don't you > think ? Or maybe we could add a check in the partport modules to fail to > load on pmacs, which are known not to have such hardware ? Perhaps it's a bug with discover or cups because they try to load a driver for a hardware I don't have but I don't think such driver should hang the computer, that's also a kernel bug. I don't understand either why the parport_pc is needed with powerpc kernels if they are not pc > > The -powerpc kernels support a wide range of hardware, including some > (as mine), that does have parport support. Yes, I know, that's why I prefer a heavy modular kernel, but Do you need the pc specific driver? The CONFIG_PARPORT_PC help says that it's needed for "All IBM PC compatible computers and some Alphas have PC-style parallel ports." Is it the same for your computer? > > Please fill a bug report, so this doesn't get lost. Ok > > > I had the same problem with my tibook G4 550MHz with other kernels > > compiled by hand. > > Yeah, i guess the bug is in discover then, not sure though. As I said, I see that discover have a bug trying to load a module I don't know but also I'm asking about the need of that module in powerpc kernels. If you need it to get working your parport then I will fill a bug report against kernel 2.4 (and perhaps 2.6) because hangs a machine loading that module, if you don't need it I will do the same but asking to disable that option from the menu when compiling a powerpc kernel. Cheers. > > Friendly, > > Sven Luther -- Carlos Perelló Marín Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC) Linux Registered User #121232 mailto:carlos@pemas.net || mailto:carlos@gnome.org http://carlos.pemas.net Valencia - Spain
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