Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k

2013-12-15 Thread Michael Schmitz
Geert, I've always taken the comment "Atari has a byte-swapped IDE interface" in drivers/ide/falconide.c to mean that the bus interface bas been implemented swapped. What it _does_ appear to signify is that filesystem data to and from disk need to be handled differently from CD, floppy or

Making use of the BigRamPlus?

2013-12-15 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
Hi! Currently there's no sparsemem support in the m68k kernel yet, so the question is: how to make use of the BigRamPlus now? A possible use case would be as swap space, but z2ram shows this during boot: [ 29.04] Z2RAM: using 0K Zorro II RAM and 1152K Chip RAM (Total 1152K) I already b

Re: debian-ports.org getting relatively unstable (hppa)

2013-12-15 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Thorsten, thanks for your help! On 12/15/2013 02:59 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Helge Deller dixit: > >> We noticed, that when we manually binmnu-upload packages, which are >> already in the *same version* on debian-ports, then debian-ports ACCEPT > > When you binNMU packages you add a +b1,

Re: debian-ports.org getting relatively unstable (hppa)

2013-12-15 Thread Helge Deller
Hello Aurelien, On 12/15/2013 09:03 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:54:43AM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: >> On 12/15/2013 06:32 AM, Dave Land wrote: >>> Not sure what's up at debian-ports.org, but I've been trying to >>> debootstrap 2 different HPPA machines for the last coup

Re: debian-ports.org getting relatively unstable (hppa)

2013-12-15 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:54:43AM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > On 12/15/2013 06:32 AM, Dave Land wrote: > > Not sure what's up at debian-ports.org, but I've been trying to > > debootstrap 2 different HPPA machines for the last couple days and > > have been getting a variety of errors (size

Re: debian-ports.org getting relatively unstable (hppa)

2013-12-15 Thread Dave Land
On 12/15/13 3:54 AM, Helge Deller wrote: On 12/15/2013 06:32 AM, Dave Land wrote: Not sure what's up at debian-ports.org, but I've been trying to debootstrap 2 different HPPA machines for the last couple days and have been getting a variety of errors (size mismatches, files not found when they w

Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k

2013-12-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Geert Uytterhoeven dixit: >Actually the Atari one is byte-swapped, i.e. wired incorrectly. Hm, I see. This calls for either conv=swab, using ARAnyM to create HDD images, or some sort of device mapper available on the other platforms, then. (For IDE drives, that is.) I’d not put the hack just int

Re: debian-ports.org getting relatively unstable (hppa)

2013-12-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Helge Deller dixit: >We noticed, that when we manually binmnu-upload packages, which are >already in the *same version* on debian-ports, then debian-ports ACCEPT When you binNMU packages you add a +b1, +b2, … suffix to their versions. ITYM porter upload? >those packages, but if we then try to ap

Re: debian-ports.org getting relatively unstable (hppa)

2013-12-15 Thread Helge Deller
On 12/15/2013 06:32 AM, Dave Land wrote: > Not sure what's up at debian-ports.org, but I've been trying to > debootstrap 2 different HPPA machines for the last couple days and > have been getting a variety of errors (size mismatches, files not > found when they were there 20 minutes before, etc.

Re: Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k

2013-12-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: >>> IDE disks on Falcon are quirky in that the IDE bus interface is little >>> endian >>> by definition, but has been implemented in big endian bus byte order on >>> Falcon. >>> Data written to disk will end up byte swapped. Reading these dis