On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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. >
Make sure you're using registered memory if you've got more than one stick of it. If you need more advice on which memory works/doesn't work (the old single-sided/double-sided type of issue, I think), bug me privately - I've got some old private A1 archives I can dig through. > > 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/. > For 2.4, there doesn't seem a lot of point. If you look at the code, a lot of it is somewhat rough (not a comment on the people who wrote it, in their situation I'd probably have done something similar if I was able to). > There's a number of stuff that I'm not sure about... Remember that the A1 version of 2.4.22 is based on 2.4.22-ben1 or -ben2. > > * 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'... > see above > * 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)... > again, I put these down to using the 2.4-ppc tree instead of Marcelo's. > > * 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. Umm, looks like you've got Configure.help.orig in your non-A1 tree, probably from a failed patch, and that forms 99% of this file - I think you've put up the wrong stuff here. > 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... > I'm not overly interested in the debian kernel packages for the A1, at least not until the A1 is in the main kernel. However, if I can sort out the rtc stuff and track down another error which might be kernel related, I'll be putting up some new patches for 2.4.27 (hint - use dumpe2fs to have a look at the dates for your rootfs: I've gone beyond 1903 now, but I'm managing to trash the year back to 1984). At that point I'll probably revisit my rescue CD (also on my zarniwhoop page). > > 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. > That's all you need. 1.0.0 is old, but I imagine that part hasn't changed. > 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. > > Everything here is already done localy. I just have get my AmigaONE installed > so I can start building packages for the PPC :) > Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
