Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:45:38AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Quoting Ken Moffat <ken@kenmoffat.uklinux.net>:
>
> > might be because you don't have ide=nodma in the bootargs. That way
> > lies pain and an eventual reinstall.
>
> We suspect a faulty memory. I'll try your solution, and we'll see...
>
> Update: Nope, 'ida=nodma' didn't do any difference. I'll have to wait for
> the new memory until I can proceed.
>
> > No kidding, was it only 1.8MB ? it felt more.
>
> Sorry, it WAS more. Should have been 3.0Mb! That's including the CVS
> directories and all the CVS key words which (it seemed) was quite easy
> to filter out. Applying a bit of filtering, I ended up with 762Kb. Much
> better :)
>
> > Yes, I did look through it and I've extracted the real changes and put
> > them at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop.
>
> I've put mine in 'digestable' chunks at http://www.bayour.com/AmigaONE/.
>
> There's a number of stuff that I'm not sure about...
>
> * linux-2.4.22_full.patch.txt
> This is a raw diff between upstream and the CVS version.
>
> * linux-2.4.22_semi.patch.txt
> This is the un-digastable patch (special params to diff to filter out
> MOST of the CVS stuff though).
>
>
> * syskonnect.patch.txt
> * ieee1394.patch.txt
> These seems to be totaly unrelated to the AmigaONE. Don't know where
> it comes from, but I guess from the 'bleeding edge upstream 2.4'...
>
> * powerpc.patch.txt
> Most of this is also availible in the 'kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc'
> Debian GNU/Linux source package (which I thought I'd add the AmigaONE
> patch(es) to).
>
> Not all of it is rejected (after adding the Debian GNU/Linux PPC patch)
> though! Maybe that's the 'bleeding edge PowerPC patch'?
>
> * strange.patch.txt
> This file is stuff that I found ... 'strange'. They look like spelling
> errors etc, but I don't know for sure (yet - have to look closer)...
>
>
> * amigaone-2.4.22.patch.txt
> This seems to be ALL that's AmigaONE related. It applies _almost_ clean
> to the linux-2.4.25 tree (which is the kernel that's used in the source
> package mentioned above).
>
> Trying to apply this on 2.4.25 shows that I've done something wrong when
> I 'digested' the patch. I've corrected this below...
>
> * amigaone-2.4.25.patch.txt
> This is the AmigaONE patch modified slightly for 2.4.25... It's ONLY the
> AmigaONE relevant part.
> The 'linux-2.4.25.PowerPC/' directory I'm comparing against is the
> original/upstream 2.4.25 kernel tree with the PowerPC patch found in the
> 2.4.25 ppc kernel package, NOTHING else...
>
> The only one I'm really interested in and which will end up in the source
> package mentionend above is the last one. The others could 'be nice', but
> they are not relevant for this task...
>
> > Seem to work mostly ok with
> > 2.4.25 and later (read the docs, most people who have commented get
> > adequate results with the work-around for disk dma. Not perfect by any
> > means, but it's a start). You'll need mkimage from u-boot to build the
> > uImage. But, you'll need to use an older kernel to install the system
> > before you can do this.
>
> I've packaged part of uboot (1.0.0) - the mkimage binary. The rest seemed
> irrelevant at this time.
>
> The 'linux-kernel-di-powerpc' package from the 'debian installer' will
> depend on this (and the 'kernel-{image,modules}-2.4.25-amigaone' packages
> which will in turn be built using the source kernel package above) to make
> the installer aware of AmigaONE.
Ok, so what is your plan ? Build your own forked debian-installer, or
contribute your changes back to the main debian kernel ?
Also notice that powerpc is phasing out the 2.4.x kernels in favor of the
2.6.x ones, which will be installable by default, so if you would be able to
forward patch those, it would be really great, and we may even consider adding
them to the debian kernel package, altough i fear what Christoph will have to
say from a 1.8MB patch. Is all this really necessary ?
I had a quick look at it, and there is two remarks i can do :
1) please call those amigaone-2.4.25.diff, as they should.
2) it would be nice to remove all those .orig files cluttering the patch,
and you may bring the size down a bit. Also, please resolve :
linux-2.4.25.PowerPC/arch/ppc/boot/Makefile.rej
Also, are those patches against the kernel-source-2.4.25 package, or against
the kernel-source + kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc package ?
Finally, i will be releasing a 2.4.26 powerpc kernel package next week, so
please provide a diff against this one (kernel-source + powerpc patch).
> Everything here is already done localy. I just have get my AmigaONE installed
> so I can start building packages for the PPC :)
Bah, please don't go the same way this happened last year, and have a thought
at providing the packages back upstream, altough i believe it may well be too
late for the sarge release by now, at least for debian-installer which is very
near the release.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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