On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:14:01PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > 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 ? > > > > > > > For 2.6 I'm down to about 200KB, which I think includes some of the > > original A1 files that I'm not using (e.g. _time merged into _setup as a > > preliminary to using todc_time). This is without e.g. the floppy stuff > > and the so-called dma fixes. If it can be made to work, I guess 200KB > > or less (which is still rather a lot). > > Ok. Still too much though, but i guess there is no chance of it changing. > > > > 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 > > > > > Agreed, if it doesn't eventually get merged then it isn't worth doing. > > > > I've heard the people at mai are issuing a binary 2.6.6 to their > > testers, whoever they might be, but they aren't exactly communicative. > > He. > > > My own attempts on 2.6.7 are at a very early stage and have certain > > difficulties (page-up in 'less' locks it, coming out of X gives a > > non-legible screen, and the rtc stuff isn't working properly yet). > > What graphic card and thus fbdev are you using ? > The notorious radeon 9200se, but under 2.6.7 I'm not using a console fb yet, just a vga console. X11R6.7.0 just recognises the card and works without any of the old magic incantations.
> > But then, I was never cut out to be a kernel hacker. Looks like I'm > > Bah, it is like that that one learns. I started the same way, cleaning up the > old POP patches. > > > unlikely to get back to 2.6 before September, unfortunately. > > Too late for sarge anyway, but tell us when you have progress. That said, > consider using the debian-kernel mailing list for this kind of stuff. > Actually, I'm mostly not a debian user, I'm only really here for help with my iBook. In the meantime, anything I do with the A1 kernel will initially be announced on the a1linux group at yahoo, and at amigaworld.net, I don't see any point cluttering this list with it until there is something more usable for people to look at. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce
