On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Petr Stehlik wrote:
> > > >From "should work", I take it that no out-of-tree patches are > > > >required... > > that is correct - no ARAnyM specific patches are required for booting > Atari kernel on ARAnyM. But if you add one small patch you get real > power-off and also ethernet networking. Good to know. > BTW, there is a lot of other things that could be added by patching the > linux kernel - one of them is direct access to host drives or > filesystems (which would greatly speed things up since the emulated IDE > is PITA), the other is direct access to (acceelerated) host graphics > (which again would greatly speed the system since emulating VIDEL > bitplanes is another great PITA) but I won't bother with that when > stability is not solved yet. > > > > but which tree should work? Are you referring to mainline, > > > linux-m68k or debian kernel? > > See above. An Atari kernel. Or m68k kernel with Atari support. MC68040, > VIDEL bitplane graphics... Does mainline contain all Atari related > patches already? I've been waiting ages for that (since 0.9pl3? ;-) and > IIRC the vanilla always lacked a few bits here or there... I think the mainline 2.4 tree is closed (other than for regressions). But it would be great if your ethernet/poweroff work could be merged into the linux-m68k 2.4 tree. -f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
