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

2014-01-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 01/07/2014 09:45 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> If people are patching kernel sources for the Blizzard driver anyway, it >> would be only a little bit of extra work to just apply the fix at >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/11

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

2014-01-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/07/2014 09:45 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > If people are patching kernel sources for the Blizzard driver anyway, it > would be only a little bit of extra work to just apply the fix at > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/12/11/141. Or disable CONFIG_FUTEX. Oh! I need to set up a cross-build envir

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

2014-01-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/07/2014 09:38 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: >> Merlin crashes because of the futex_init() issue on '030. > > Thanks - in that case it might be better to apply the Blizzard SCSI > commits to an earlier kernel version (they were done on 3.1o IIRC but > should apply to earlier versions as well)?

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

2014-01-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
Geert, Adrian, I'd love to do some further testing. However, I haven't been able to boot 3.12 on my Amigas yet. Neither elgar (A4000) nor merlin (A1200) like to boot with 3.12. elgar seems to be stuck forever (it doesn't show any output beyond what you see), while merlin gets a kernel panic.

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

2014-01-07 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: >>> I'd love to do some further testing. However, I haven't been able to >>> boot 3.12 on my Amigas yet. Neither elgar (A4000) nor merlin (A1200) >>> like to boot with 3.12. elgar seems to be stuck forever (it doesn't >>> show any output beyon

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

2014-01-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:09 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I'd love to do some further testing. However, I haven't been able to > boot 3.12 on my Amigas yet. Neither elgar (A4000) nor merlin (A1200) > like to boot with 3.12. elgar seems to be stuck forever (it doesn't > show any output be

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

2014-01-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/05/2014 02:20 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote: >> Hint: it would be nice if the authors would submit them to the >> rightmailing >> lists, so the appropriate maintainers can apply them. I don't go over >> SCSI >> and Ethernet. > > The Blizzard SCSI driver still needs testing on the remaining suppo

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

2014-01-04 Thread Michael Schmitz
Geert, There are also the newly resurrected drivers for the Blizzard SCSI controller and the X-Surf100 by Michael Karcher which need to be merged upstream :). Hint: it would be nice if the authors would submit them to the rightmailing lists, so the appropriate maintainers can apply them. I d

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

2013-12-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/28/2013 08:50 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hint: it would be nice if the authors would submit them to the rightmailing > lists, so the appropriate maintainers can apply them. I don't go over SCSI > and Ethernet. > > scripts/get_maintainer.pl .patch Don't worry, Michael Karcher is very mu

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

2013-12-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:06 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/25/2013 11:51 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> Stefan Niestegge dixit: >> >>> Thanks to the kernel i got from Geert, i do now have network support >>> on my NetUSBee, too. >> >> Wonderful! As soon as this hits the vanilla kern

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

2013-12-25 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
Am 26.12.2013 um 00:06 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : > There are also the newly resurrected drivers for the Blizzard SCSI > controller and the X-Surf100 by Michael Karcher which need to be > merged upstream :). Yeah, the NCR SCSI driver seems quite stable without serious problems. At least

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

2013-12-25 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/25/2013 11:51 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Stefan Niestegge dixit: > >> Thanks to the kernel i got from Geert, i do now have network support >> on my NetUSBee, too. > > Wonderful! As soon as this hits the vanilla kernels, we will > have this in the Debian kernel as well (if .config changes

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

2013-12-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Stefan Niestegge dixit: >Thanks to the kernel i got from Geert, i do now have network support >on my NetUSBee, too. Wonderful! As soon as this hits the vanilla kernels, we will have this in the Debian kernel as well (if .config changes are required DO PING ME so I can submit that to the Debian Li

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

2013-12-25 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Hello and happy christmas, i managed to make an ext3 filesystem on my Falcons harddisk and copy the base-m68k content over. The former 4GB partition on /dev/hda4, which i wrote the ext2 filesystem to, is now mounted and used as my swap partition. Thanks to the kernel i got from Geert, i do now h

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

2013-12-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit: >On 12/17/2013 10:03 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: >> then did 'zcat m68k-base.e2z | dd of=debian.img' Uhm, this will also work and save space (remove the .e2z file though): $ mv m68k-base.e2z debian.img.gz $ gzip -d debian.img.gz Note that this needs “long filen

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

2013-12-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
Stefan, thanks for your perseverance - it does appear something is wrong with the tar program from FreeMINT. Hi, i had better results now, after i got this hint on the MiNT-List: You might look into HDDRIVER specs also. Although never tried myself, it should be able to write single partitio

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

2013-12-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/17/2013 10:03 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: > I transfered m68k-base.e2z to my Falcon (FreeMinNT), > then did 'zcat m68k-base.e2z | dd of=debian.img' > > Then i run HDDRUTIL.PRG and choose "Load image" from the > 'Partition' Menu. I did not check the byteswap checkbox. > > Now i can boot Debi

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

2013-12-17 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 17.12.2013 12:59, schrieb Stefan Niestegge: > Am 17.12.2013 12:37, schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: >> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: >>> both of the tar commands unpack the tarball, but end with message >>> "exit due to previvous errors" at /var/tmp >> >> Perhaps FreeMINT

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

2013-12-17 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 17.12.2013 12:37, schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: >> both of the tar commands unpack the tarball, but end with message >> "exit due to previvous errors" at /var/tmp > > Perhaps FreeMINT doesn't support the "t" bit on the /var/tmp director

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

2013-12-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: > both of the tar commands unpack the tarball, but end with message > "exit due to previvous errors" at /var/tmp Perhaps FreeMINT doesn't support the "t" bit on the /var/tmp directory? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert --

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

2013-12-17 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 17.12.2013 07:40, schrieb Michael Schmitz: > Stefan, > Is it possible to make this partition scheme with HD Driver under TOS? >>> >>> That's about the only way I know of. >> >> Okay, i did this. Then i used FreeMiNT to make an ext2 FS on the LNX >> partition. >> The kernel boot messages te

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

2013-12-16 Thread Michael Schmitz
Stefan, Make sure the BGM/FAT partition is less or equal 128 MB in size - the logical sector size may not exceed the kernel page size of 4k. Why this? Falcon has Tos 4.04 and allows than 128MB partitions iirc. I always use 500 MB for my first TOS partition. Limitation of the Linux VFAT fil

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

2013-12-16 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 16.12.2013 19:20, schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: >>> There’s a ready-made ext2fs image in the same directory where I put >>> the tarball. >> >> Thorsten, how would i unpack this image? The manpage of dd doesn't tell >> how to write a gzipp

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

2013-12-16 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: >> There’s a ready-made ext2fs image in the same directory where I put >> the tarball. > > Thorsten, how would i unpack this image? The manpage of dd doesn't tell > how to write a gzipped image. zcat gz | dd of=... Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

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

2013-12-16 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 14.12.2013 02:22, schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > There’s a ready-made ext2fs image in the same directory where I put > the tarball. > > bye, > //mirabilos > Thorsten, how would i unpack this image? The manpage of dd doesn't tell how to write a gzipped image. Thanks, Stefan signature.asc Desc

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

2013-12-16 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Stefan Niestegge dixit: >Is it possible to just unpack a tarball of a debian/68k system to that >partiton under FreeMiNT? That is what i tried with m68k-base.tgz . Yes, BTDT. But it is easier to dd(1) the ext2fs image under FreeMiNT. In your case this should even be more reliable. bye, //mirabil

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

2013-12-16 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 16.12.2013 12:21, schrieb Stefan Niestegge: >>> Is it possible to make this partition scheme with HD Driver under TOS? >> >> That's about the only way I know of. > > Okay, i did this. Then i used FreeMiNT to make an ext2 FS on the LNX > partition. > The kernel boot messages tell me it mounted

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

2013-12-16 Thread Stefan Niestegge
Am 14.12.2013 01:11, schrieb Michael Schmitz: > Stefan, > >> i am trying to install linux on my Atari Falcon. >> >> My first partition should be BGM/FAT, so TOS can run. >> The second one is ext2 filesystem, for the unix stuff of MiNT. >> I have a third partition, also ext2 for programs and data i

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

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: 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

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

2013-12-14 Thread Michael Schmitz
Thorsten, 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 disks on any other architecture requires that data be swapped

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

2013-12-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
ragnar76 dixit: >On 14.12.2013 02:22, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> … Ragnar would know I think. >i'm sorry, no. i've tried it before. I had no reason to do this but i >think i have a spare hdd. I will find it out. No, what I meant was, you would know, because you and Frosch were there when I tried i

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

2013-12-13 Thread ragnar76
hi list, On 14.12.2013 02:22, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > … Ragnar would know I think. i'm sorry, no. i've tried it before. I had no reason to do this but i think i have a spare hdd. I will find it out. greetings ragnar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

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

2013-12-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Schmitz dixit: > 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 disks on any > other > architecture requires t

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

2013-12-13 Thread Michael Schmitz
Stefan, i am trying to install linux on my Atari Falcon. My first partition should be BGM/FAT, so TOS can run. The second one is ext2 filesystem, for the unix stuff of MiNT. I have a third partition, also ext2 for programs and data i use from MiNT. The fourth i want to use for linux root (wh

Partitioning Atari Falcon in order to run linux/m68k

2013-12-13 Thread Stefan Niestegge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi i am trying to install linux on my Atari Falcon. My first partition should be BGM/FAT, so TOS can run. The second one is ext2 filesystem, for the unix stuff of MiNT. I have a third partition, also ext2 for programs and data i use from MiNT. The fo