Hi,
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, pferrucci wrote:
> De : "Joe Nosay "
> > Where did you get hold of an Amiga? I thought they were a limited sort.
>
> All current models are listed here:
> http://amigaos.net/content/72/supported-hardware
I beg your pardon. I can't see Amigas listed there, but I see
"Ami
De : "Joe Nosay "
> Where did you get hold of an Amiga? I thought they were a limited sort.
All current models are listed here:
http://amigaos.net/content/72/supported-hardware
--Philippe Ferrucci
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> IBM recently announced a powerpc based public cloud
>
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9242457/IBM_hopes_to_Power_cloud_analytics_with_1B_Linux_investment
>
> not sure if this is relevant and/or helpful.
>
> obviously powermac soun
IBM recently announced a powerpc based public cloud
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9242457/IBM_hopes_to_Power_cloud_analytics_with_1B_Linux_investment
not sure if this is relevant and/or helpful.
obviously powermac sound card bugs wont be debugged...
Dean
On 22/11/13 12:34, nello martu
well, cheap like a second hand POWER7 system :-D
--nello
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>
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>
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On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 02:32:27PM +, dabby bentam wrote:
> What patches in 2.4.27?
>
> I always use debian kernels.
Exact, the thing is you really have no idea if the improvement you see is from
these patches, which sound dubious, or from passing from a 2.4.27 to a 2.6.8
kernel, especially a
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: dabby bentam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 11:37:38 +0100
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:30:52AM +, dabby bentam wrote:
> Hi Sven,
>
> Yes i have the pegasos 1 with Apri
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:30:52AM +, dabby bentam wrote:
> Hi Sven,
>
> Yes i have the pegasos 1 with April 2 fix.
> I found even on the 2.4.27 kernel i had dma corruption, it was quite
> annoying.
>
> I tested/modifyed geri patches to build on the 2.6.8 kernel, i have to say
> it has made
Hi Sven,
Yes i have the pegasos 1 with April 2 fix.
I found even on the 2.4.27 kernel i had dma corruption, it was quite
annoying.
I tested/modifyed geri patches to build on the 2.6.8 kernel, i have to say
it has made a difference.
DMA turned on and no corruption so far, large files over ne
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 09:46 +0100, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
> > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> > Von: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > An: Gerhard Pircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Kopie: linuxppc-dev list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: Gerhard Pircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Kopie: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Betreff: Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port
> Datum: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 07:26:01 +0100
>
> Ah, ...
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: Gerhard Pircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Kopie: Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port
> Datum: Fri, 2 Dec
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: Gerhard Pircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Kopie: Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port
> Datum: Fri, 2 Dec
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: Gerhard Pircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Kopie: linuxppc-dev list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port
>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:20:20PM +0100, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
> > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> > Von: Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > An: Gerhard Pircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Kopie: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> > Betreff: Re: AmigaOne
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
Did you have other unreleased patches, too? Anyway it would be good, if you
could comment on these patches, as I'm just beginning to understand how the
Linux kernel works. Therefore I really appreciate any help!
About the inadequate cooling: I have mou
> As far as I can understand you refer to the non cocherent DMA memory
> allocation functions in arch/ppc/kernel/dma-mapping.c, right? Regarding the
> BAT mapping: can you give me an example for this or a link to a reference
> implementation?, because I'm afraid I can only image for now, what you'
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: Gerhard Pircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Kopie: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port
> Datum: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 08:20:45 +0100
>
> hi Gerhard
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: Gerhard Pircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Kopie: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port
> Datum: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:17:47 +1100
>
&g
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> An: Gerhard Pircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Kopie: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: AmigaOne 2.6.x Linux kernel port
> Datum: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 01:36:59 + (GMT)
>
> A few mo
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:19:38PM +0100, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
> Hello!
>
> First sorry for the long mail! :-)
hi Gerhard, ...
Nice to hear from you and the AmigaOne effort again, please don't forget to
send me your patches (preferably to a debian bug report against linux-2.6
even), once there
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 23:19 +0100, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
>
> The code in amigaone_dma-mapping.c was directly copied from dma-mapping.c
> (in arch/ppc/kernel/). I think the main problem lies in dma-mapping.h, were
> I just added some cache flush functions to the DMA allocation functions for
> coh
Ken Moffat a écrit :
A few more comments I forgot to make earlier -
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
I tried to change the code
to handle the AmigaOne platform as a non cache coherent architecture
and to
do all necessary cache flushes in software. AFAIK also the developers of
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Ken Moffat wrote:
My attempts to port this should still be somewhere at
http://www.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop/ if anybody cares
make that http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop/kernel/
(don't you just hate it when you can't remember your own URL, or does
that only apply to
A few more comments I forgot to make earlier -
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
I tried to change the code
to handle the AmigaOne platform as a non cache coherent architecture and to
do all necessary cache flushes in software. AFAIK also the developers of
AmigaOS4 have worked around t
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
I have another question regarding the cputable.c file. Ken Moffat commented
out CPU_FTR_NEED_COHERENT for the AmigaOne platform. I tried to find
information about why this define is needed, but couldn't find anything.
Does anybody know, how this affec
Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:31:42PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> > Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > > What Debian packages? ;)
> > >
> > > The debian kernel packages.
> >
> > There was/is no kernel packages! There's only a kernel
Hi,
Gabriel Paubert wrote:
Hmm, the DMA controller is called the 8237. The 8259 is the PIC, aka
Painful Interrupt Controller.
Sorry! You are right, I always get those to numbers confused ;).
Once upon a while, Intel introduced a couple of PCI/ISA bridge with
enhanced DMA capabilities:
- th
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:16:21PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> >Hmm, last time I used a floppy on my LongTrail, it did work (to my
> >surprise,
> >since a few years earlier it was broken ;-)
>
> >Yes, CHRP had PC-style floppy controllers. And decent South
Hi,
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Hmm, last time I used a floppy on my LongTrail, it did work (to my surprise,
since a few years earlier it was broken ;-)
Yes, CHRP had PC-style floppy controllers. And decent South Bridges used on PPC
(e.g. W53C883) usually support 32-bit ISA DMA.
The South Br
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:24:34PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Quoting Ross Vumbaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > > Bah, that means that the A1 people will again do their own hack for debian
> > > support probably. Ah well, i don't really care.
>
> There will be NO
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:31:42PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > > What Debian packages? ;)
> >
> > The debian kernel packages.
>
> There was/is no kernel packages! There's only a kernel and a root image:
Well, there should be.
> majorskan:/mn
Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Naturaly this is a semi-official Debian GNU/Linux effort! EVERYTHING will
> > end
> > up in 'official distribution'. That's the whole point.
>
> Yeah, but you suffer from the "let's make it perfect before we merge it in"
> syndrom.
True enough. Maybe
Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > What Debian packages? ;)
>
> The debian kernel packages.
There was/is no kernel packages! There's only a kernel and a root image:
majorskan:/mnt/chroots/ppc-a1/image# find -type f
./boot/boot.cat
./boot/boot.img
./dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/curre
Quoting Ross Vumbaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > So, please avoid the errors of your forgoers, and contribute those changes
> > back to debian, even if it really is too late for sarge.
>
> I did, if you take a look at the debian-bf list, a short while after I
> produced the p
Quoting Ross Vumbaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > Bah, that means that the A1 people will again do their own hack for debian
> > support probably. Ah well, i don't really care.
There will be NO 'debian only hack'! Not from me. And everything I do or receive
will (!) one way or
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
> .. extremely sparse. Now on the AmigaOne, floppy DMA happens to not be
> working properly for some other reason, so the floppy driver for the PC
> floppy controller of the AmigaOne appears to try to use virtual DMA and
> it crashes and burns. I had to copy
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 11:03:32AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
I was 'donated' this machine in the sole purpose in getting OFFICIAL support for
the AmigaONE in Debian GNU/Linux. Holding back on ANYTHING will void our
agreement.
So, why didn't you do so ? In all
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:11:42AM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sven Luther wrote:
>
> >Yeah, but what about the debian packages ? And you could have asked for
> >help
> >to clean it up, couldn't you ?
>
> What Debian packages? ;)
The debian kernel packages. You said you wanted to have
Hi,
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:07:14PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
if you want a working floppy drive. The "PPC" version of floppy.h seemed
to be rather Apple specific, and dumped all the necessary stuff to use
PC floppy controllers without DMA (there is a problem us
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
Yeah, but what about the debian packages ? And you could have asked for help
to clean it up, couldn't you ?
What Debian packages? ;)
I worked on this with others in late 2002, early 2003. At that time,
there were other people working on this, so it was assumed it woul
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:07:14PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
> if you want a working floppy drive. The "PPC" version of floppy.h seemed
> to be rather Apple specific, and dumped all the necessary stuff to use
> PC floppy controllers without DMA (there is a problem using the ISA DMA
> with the f
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 11:03:32AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > > 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 b
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:01:43PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sven Luther wrote:
>
> >So, please avoid the errors of your forgoers, and contribute those changes
> >back to debian, even if it really is too late for sarge.
>
> I did, if you take a look at the debian-bf list, a short whil
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Finally, i will be releasing a 2.4.26 powerpc kernel package next week, so
please provide a diff against this one (kernel-source + powerpc patch).
Fair enough. I'll do 2.4.25 packages localy to test the kernel with, and when
you release 2.4.26 I'll 'port' everyth
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
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.
That was 2.4.21-benh not 2.4.22.
2.4.22 they supposedly based off a stock kernel, but I kinda doubt that
too (no idea what they based
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
So, please avoid the errors of your forgoers, and contribute those changes
back to debian, even if it really is too late for sarge.
I did, if you take a look at the debian-bf list, a short while after I
produced the patches for the Woody installer (last year). But no o
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 06:37:27PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sven Luther wrote:
>
> >Bah, that means that the A1 people will again do their own hack for debian
> >support probably. Ah well, i don't really care.
>
> There is no "A1 people". There is just myself, Ken, and Turbo who own
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
Bah, that means that the A1 people will again do their own hack for debian
support probably. Ah well, i don't really care.
There is no "A1 people". There is just myself, Ken, and Turbo who own
AmigaOnes, AFAIK. Everyone else who ever did anything to do with Linux
on
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> That's not the correct fix. VGA_MAP_MEM() should take into account the ISA
> memory space offset.
>
> And in fact it does, cfr. include/asm-ppc/vga.h, just make sure to initialize
> vgacon_remap_base with the correct ISA memory space offset.
>
> >
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:24:09PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > What graphic card and thus fbdev are you using ?
> > > >
> > > The notorious radeon 9200se, but und
Quoting Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 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.
Ah. That explain quite a lot I guess. I already suspected a 'backport' of
some kind, but a 'fork' is more or less the s
Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 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 o
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > * 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
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:24:09PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > 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
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 04:24:09PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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
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 wo
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 b
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 k
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, 'id
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:45:38AM +0200, 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...
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
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> I got my AmigaOne yesterday, and I'm currently trying to install it with
> the ISO @ SourceForge. However, I'm having some troubles with the IDE disk,
> cable or something completley different - 'device not ready for command' or
> something like that
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 06:21:17PM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> I got my AmigaOne yesterday, and I'm currently trying to install it with
BAh, you should have gotten a pegasos 2 with full 2.6.7 kernel and
debian-installer support :)
> the ISO @ SourceForge. However, I'm having some troubles w
I got my AmigaOne yesterday, and I'm currently trying to install it with
the ISO @ SourceForge. However, I'm having some troubles with the IDE disk,
cable or something completley different - 'device not ready for command' or
something like that.
Quoting Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I think
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 03:32, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> I don't see ANY damn reason why you need to drag that debate in here,
> but let's just say certain other OSes doesn't have a problem marking DMA
> buffers as non-cacheable.
Hehehehehe, that's getting funny :) (Note that I don't know anyth
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:04:14AM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sven Luther wrote:
>
> >BTW, i am curious, what is the latest status of the AmigaOne thingy, i
> >almost don't hear about those anymore, and since there were problems
> >with the buggy northbridge, i had a feeling that produc
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
BTW, i am curious, what is the latest status of the AmigaOne thingy, i
almost don't hear about those anymore, and since there were problems
with the buggy northbridge, i had a feeling that production stopped or
something such, but then my info comes mostly from anti-amiga
Hi,
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Turbo Fredriksson writes:
Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE
in Debian GNU/Linux?
Implement it.
If the kernel source needs patching, try to get the patch into the
main kernel.org tree, or the Debian kernel-source package, or th
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:32:06AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Since I'm no kernel hacker I'm not the guy to bug about this. Like I
> >>>said
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
and it should be compilable with GCC 3.3.
Oooh, I didn't notice that. It's been fixed :-)
--
AmigaOne dev list FAQ (when I say F, I mean F):
http://www.samfundet.no/~olegil/amiga/
Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Since I'm no kernel hacker I'm not the guy to bug about this. Like I
said, I can help with patches to kernel-package and amiga-fdisk. Kernel
is not my field. I know MA
Hi,
Christoph Hellwig writes:
> Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> > A "significant" amount of people have already written to tell me that if
> > they had been given boards for free it would have happened. Now, would
> > it, or would it NOT, help to have a BIT of money in that regard?
> Although IB
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:11:11PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
>
> > > U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
> > > mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
> > > image and outputs a bootable image)
> >
> >
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:14:28PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
>
> >
> > Since I'm no kernel hacker I'm not the guy to bug about this. Like I
> > said, I can help with patches to kernel-package and amiga-fdisk. Kernel
> > is not my field. I know MAI the
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:51:43AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Turbo Fredriksson writes:
> >
> >
> >>Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE
> >>in Debian GNU/Linux?
> >
> >
> >Implement it.
> >
> >If the kernel source needs pat
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:20:14AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Turbo Fredriksson writes:
>
> > Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE
> > in Debian GNU/Linux?
>
> Implement it.
I think the kernel patch for those is more big than the pegasos one, and
i am
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:35, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >>Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
> >>Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
> >
> >
> > That has nothing to do with big players at all.
>
> Are you saying I hav
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ken Moffat wrote:
>
> Can I ask the idiot's question ( where can I subscribe to
> linuxppc-devel ) please ? Google seems to think an embedded '-' is some
> sort of wildcard these days.
>
> Ken
>
Sorry, I see it's -dev, so lists.linuxppc.org
--
das eine Mal als Tragödie, da
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> Not really. I don't remember having seen your patch on linux-kernel or
> linuxppc-devel either. Send me a pointer to the patches and I'll review
> then and try to get them in. If you actually want the stuff maintained
> in newer releases I'd need
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
>
> U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as mkvmlinuz,
> called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk image and
> outputs a bootable image)
The mainline 2.4 kernel is already patched to use mkimage to create a
uImage, i
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
>
> Since I'm no kernel hacker I'm not the guy to bug about this. Like I
> said, I can help with patches to kernel-package and amiga-fdisk. Kernel
> is not my field. I know MAI themselves were working on porting the 2.6
> kernel, but I haven't heard a
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:04:52PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I cannot BELIEVE how silly this discussion got, and so quickly as well.
> > It's likely to be me, so I'll just shut the fuck up now. Good bye.
>
> Although IBM has a lot of money they haven't sent me a single piece
> of hardwar
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:16:40PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> I think you're reading a bit much into a small joke which even had a
> smiled on it.
>
> A "significant" amount of people have already written to tell me that if
> they had been given boards for free it would have happened. N
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
That has nothing to do with big players at all.
A
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
image and outputs a bootable image)
That's crap. Fine for embedded maybe, but it should really be able
to
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >>Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
> >>Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
> >
> >
> >That has nothing to do with big players at all.
>
> Are you sa
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
Can't uboot load the ramdisk separately like yaboot can ?
Duh, I must have misunderstood this then. So uboot is the bootloader
for AmigaOne? Then it should be taught to load an uncompressed kernel
and a separate ramdisk from a rea
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
That has nothing to do with big players at all.
Are you saying I have more money than IBM? I would certainly hope not ;-)
Seriously, I think Eyet
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
Can't uboot load the ramdisk separately like yaboot can ?
Duh, I must have misunderstood this then. So uboot is the bootloader
for AmigaOne? Then it should be taught to load an uncompressed kernel
and a separate ramdisk fro
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> Can't uboot load the ramdisk separately like yaboot can ?
Duh, I must have misunderstood this then. So uboot is the bootloader
for AmigaOne? Then it should be taught to load an uncompressed kernel
and a separate ramdisk from a real root filesystem. Also, i
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 11:11, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
>
> > > U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
> > > mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
> > > image and outputs a bootable image)
> >
> > That's crap.
Hi,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> > U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
> > mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
> > image and outputs a bootable image)
>
> That's crap. Fine for embedded maybe, but it should really be able
> to load a pl
> Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players.
> Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-)
That has nothing to do with big players at all.
Ben.
>
> The firmware is U-Boot, so the kernel needs a bit of patching. Most of
> the guys working on the Linux kernel got tied up in writing stuff for
> AmigaOS4. It seems to me that unless one happens to be IBM or one of the
> other big players getting more than a few lines into any of the places
Hi,
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren writes:
> kernel-patch-powerpc (unfortunately, we don't have anything later than
> 2.4.22 at the moment. Trying to follow the kernel development with a
> small team and no inside contacts feels like ice skating uphill)
Well, a number of people that can be considered "insid
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:51:43AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
The firmware is U-Boot, so the kernel needs a bit of patching. Most of
the guys working on the Linux kernel got tied up in writing stuff for
AmigaOS4. It seems to me that unless one happens to be IBM o
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:51:43AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
> The firmware is U-Boot, so the kernel needs a bit of patching. Most of
> the guys working on the Linux kernel got tied up in writing stuff for
> AmigaOS4. It seems to me that unless one happens to be IBM or one of the
> other
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson writes:
Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE
in Debian GNU/Linux?
Implement it.
If the kernel source needs patching, try to get the patch into the
main kernel.org tree, or the Debian kernel-source package, or the
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