On 4/29/07, Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Brian Morris wrote: > hi, >
There was an old version of one of my IRQ patches that would hang the NuBus when a slot driver (e.g. SONIC) was closed. Since the IDE interrupt is also on a NuBus slot, this would lock up the shutdown process. It won't affect SCSI machines in the same way.
?? Unless it had the SONIC ethernet card ? the add-on card i was thinking of buying, some others may have them (works in "lcIII" slots).
> > so if sonic driver is ok now, would that be a better / faster one than > the Asante or Farollon chips. have one asante card now, between two > machines. could buy a sonic. costs a little bit more. Either one should work fine, but I would expect the SONIC driver to be marginally faster since it uses a zero-copy algorithm.
q630 also has a comm slot. there may be a card which works in here, but I am not sure if the quadra is typeII or what the requirement is. still it would be nice to get "full speed" that is 10Mbps rather than 800kbps.
> > _________ > > one more comment on RAM > > i think 32MB is that OK ? i found that sarge could boot with 20 but it > was not happy. to run emacs (xemacs = better) say. > > i think i need at least 64 for etch, bare minimum. Did you try it with 32 MB? I haven't installed etch yet...
i have the kernel with 32 and i had tried compiling some textbook examples c++ codes that was quite a bit slower than seemed reasonable. it was just as slow with 2.2/3.3 though, as 2.6/4.1. i had been upgrading from/to testing but i have not done it thorough upgrades. that is only what i had to to install application - dependencies. like i tried to explain here before my home internet is very very slow. i need cd images to do a dist-upgrade. Unless I feel like jumping through some hoops to build a local partial mirror. I could maybe do that. I was hoping someone knew how to make just the template for jigdo, because that uses the ordinary mirrors and is supposed to replace images anyway. on the other hand, there is currently it seems no way to make custom cd, so maybe the local mirror is best. I had also copy my old disk onto a free partition on my laptop for aranym use but it would not go and I heard aranym was busted on ppc. so that is still sitting there. I don't mind too much waiting a few months to upgrade, there are still in my areas anyway bugs/regressions (including the one I just mentioned) which might clear up in a security update. Although may it would help to have some more testing of etch for 68k, to show it is OK it could then be reinstated officially (ha, ha) ??
-f > > brian > > >
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