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Re: IOBlix Zorro2 Serial driver

[Michel <da...@re...>]

Alan Buxey wrote:

> > > I am not sure if it is portable to A1200 because i have not that
> > > computer to test the driver.
> >
> > I'm sure there's people who'd like to test it - Alan, will you make a new
> > (test ?) release?
> 
> I could do - erm, I'll need the diff though - unless its been uploaded
> somewhere. Actually, theres a thought...can we have a diff area in the FTP
> section at linux-apus?

There's the patch manager - and he's attached the diff to his announcement...


Michel


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Re: IOBlix Zorro2 Serial driver

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

hi,

> > I am not sure if it is portable to A1200 because i have not that
> > computer to test the driver.
> 
> I'm sure there's people who'd like to test it - Alan, will you make a new
> (test ?) release?

I could do - erm, I'll need the diff though - unless its been uploaded
somewhere. Actually, theres a thought...can we have a diff area in the FTP
section at linux-apus?

alan

Re: Drivers situation

[Michel <da...@re...>]

fh...@at... wrote:

> >> > 1) Is anyone working on Cyberstorm SCSI ?
> >> >    Nicholai said to me months ago that nobody was working on it.
> >> >    The situation is changed or not ?
> >>
> >> Fred Heitka is working on it but unfortunately hasn't had much success.
> >> Please
> >> join my efforts to make him contribute the code to the CVS repository :)
> 
> Actually my last name is "Heitkamp".

Oops, my apologies.


> I have yet to get the driver to pass the cache test.

What do you think about Richard Hirst's new driver Ken mentioned?


Michel


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Re: 2.4 amiserial

[Michel <da...@re...>]

Frank Petzold wrote:

> On 2.2.10, the MFC driver hangs and no bytes get through after a while
> (especially if Netscape is started). In 2.3 using amiserial, I D/L'd some
> files, browsed with netscape and ran a find / ... at the same time. The
> modem (56k) was hanging on the internal serial. There were only some packets
> lost, but the connection stayed up. After I quit the find, the packet loss
> was gone immediately.

That sounds very very good.


> Now I only need a driver for the GVP-II, and I shall switch to 2.3 :-))

You first :)

Please excuse my ignorance, is it a disk interface or what?


Michel


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2.4 amiserial

[<fp...@zu...>]

I have tested the new amiserial driver in 2.4-test yesterday. It works
even better than the MFC3 on 2.2.10! (Setup: A4k CSPPC/233, 128MB, MFC3, 
CV64/3D, GVP-II, / on internal IDE)

On 2.2.10, the MFC driver hangs and no bytes get through after a while
(especially if Netscape is started). In 2.3 using amiserial, I D/L'd some
files, browsed with netscape and ran a find / ... at the same time. The
modem (56k) was hanging on the internal serial. There were only some packets
lost, but the connection stayed up. After I quit the find, the packet loss
was gone immediately. 

Now I only need a driver for the GVP-II, and I shall switch to 2.3 :-))
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Re: FAQ and docbook

[<fh...@at...>]

In <Pin...@en...>, on
07/05/00 
   at 08:30 AM, Ken Tyler <ke...@we...> said:


>Hello,

>Does any one have any experience with docbook as used in the FAQ.

No but I have a docbook setup installed on PC Linux that works some of the
time.  I got most of the files from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=3928

I think I am still missing a few style sheets though.

I grabbed every one I could find.

>I've download the docbook files, read the READMEs but still can only
>create faq.txt of zero size, along with 200 (error limit!) element
>undefined errors - I'm missing something pretty basic.

There are a couple evironment variables that you have to set up. The tools
have to find the catalog files and there is also a path statement that is
needed.   I'd tell you what the are except I don't have Linux booted at
the moment.

Fred

Re: Drivers situation

[<fh...@at...>]

In <Pin...@en...>, on
07/05/00 
   at 08:22 AM, Ken Tyler <ke...@we...> said:



>On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] D nzer wrote:

>> > 1) Is anyone working on Cyberstorm SCSI ?
>> >    Nicholai said to me months ago that nobody was working on it.
>> >    The situation is changed or not ?
>> 
>> Fred Heitka is working on it but unfortunately hasn't had much success. Please
>> join my efforts to make him contribute the code to the CVS repository :)

Actually my last name is "Heitkamp".   I have yet to get the driver to
pass the cache test.  I am not sure what is wrong, but Ken seems to think
the CPU cache is getting in the way.  I have let the pieces that reserve
the I/O space alone.  The driver uses check_region/request_region to
reserve I/O space for the kernel, but that doesn't seem to allow the SCSI
chip to access memory properly.  What I plan to do next is use the bits
out of the 53C7xx driver to see if that makes any difference, unless
someone has a better idea. 

>I thought I might have been able to help Fred a little but the code is
>very different from the 53c7xx driver that I've looked at.

Yes the code is written in a completely different style from that of the
53c7xx driver but it appears to be a close cousin of the  driver used in
the sym53c8xx driver, which is used for a number of  cards for the PC. 
Alas they are all ISA or PCI cards.  I am trying to  find someone who can
tell me the major differences between
accessing cards on the Amiga vs. the PC.  If the driver ever does get to
work, I would eventually like to see it combined with the sym53c8xx.c in
order to take advantage of the active development. If that's all possible
of course.

Fred

FAQ and docbook

[Ken T. <ke...@we...>]

Hello,

Does any one have any experience with docbook as used in the FAQ.

I've download the docbook files, read the READMEs but still can only
create faq.txt of zero size, along with 200 (error limit!) element
undefined errors - I'm missing something pretty basic.

Ken.

Re: Drivers situation

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Ken Tyler wrote:

> Richard Hirst is working on a 770 driver (Not Amiga) that is about two
> weeks away.

Hey great - as I said in my previous post: Rock & Roll :)


Now let's dream of times to come when the USCSI on Cyberstorms is finally
supported and thousands and millions of happy CS users will be using Linux ;)


Michel


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Re: Drivers situation

[Ken T. <ke...@we...>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:

> > 1) Is anyone working on Cyberstorm SCSI ?
> >    Nicholai said to me months ago that nobody was working on it.
> >    The situation is changed or not ?
> 
> Fred Heitka is working on it but unfortunately hasn't had much success. Please
> join my efforts to make him contribute the code to the CVS repository :)

I thought I might have been able to help Fred a little but the code is
very different from the 53c7xx driver that I've looked at.

But,

Richard Hirst is working on a 770 driver (Not Amiga) that is about two
weeks away.

I had a hacked together sim710 driver for the 4091 (and all the amiga7xx.c
cards) but 'mispalaced' it, now having another go - properly this time,
and I'll continue to try to get my 4091 to work reliably.

(neither sim710 or 53c7xx drivers work reliably on PPC & (A4091 | A4000T)
scsi combination but seem OK on everything else - bugger!).

Ken

Re: hyperCOM1 and whippet fixes

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Gordon Huby wrote:

> Fixed ser_whippet.c to compile and install as a module.
> 
> Previously it would compile as a module, but would no load with
> /sbin/insmod ser_whippet
> it complains about unresolved symbols
> 
> Also fixed ser_hypercom1.c to compile and install as a module.

Excellent! Looks like things are starting to rock and roll :)


> I've got three files here.
> 
> One patch file against the latest APUS-2.2.10 cvs with all the above
> fixes.
> A tar.gz file containing the compiled modules.
> And a readme explaining how to use the modules
> 
> I could upload them to sourceforge site or send them to Michel
> 
> What should I do with them?
> 
> Be Nice. ;)

Sign up at SourceForge and apply for developer status directly to me. Believe
me, the process isn't hard *grin*


In the meantime, you could upload the patch to the Patch Manager (Put the
readme on top of it) and maybe upload the modules to the FTP incoming
directory so we can put them in contrib or something?


TIA

Michel


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Re: Drivers situation

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Giorgio Terzi wrote:

> i wish to inform you that i shall try to write the parallel drivers
> of the same card (LP & PLIP) because they seems quite simple
> (not easy).

Cool, good luck!


> 1) Is anyone working on Cyberstorm SCSI ?
>    Nicholai said to me months ago that nobody was working on it.
>    The situation is changed or not ?

Fred Heitka is working on it but unfortunately hasn't had much success. Please
join my efforts to make him contribute the code to the CVS repository :)

(BTW Giorgio: Sign up at SourceForge and mail me your username privately so I
can add you to the project and you can commit your changes yourself).


> P.S. Dear Michel, thank you for the patch manager suggestion,
>      i am a sort of "caveman" about Mailing List services :-) .

No problem, you'd be the first to use the Patch Manager ;)


Michel


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hyperCOM1 and whippet fixes

[Gordon H. <go...@gh...>]

Hi, I've got a couple of fixes for APUS 2.2.10

Fixed ser_whippet.c to compile and install as a module.

Previously it would compile as a module, but would no load with
/sbin/insmod ser_whippet
it complains about unresolved symbols

Also fixed ser_hypercom1.c to compile and install as a module.

I've got three files here.

One patch file against the latest APUS-2.2.10 cvs with all the above
fixes.
A tar.gz file containing the compiled modules.
And a readme explaining how to use the modules

I could upload them to sourceforge site or send them to Michel

What should I do with them?

Be Nice. ;)

Regards,

Gordon.

Re: Zorro programming

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 fh...@at... wrote:
> Has any of you folks that have done extensive Zorro programming ever wrote
> a tutorial to help the newbie APUS programmer?  It not here's your chance?
> 
> Seriously, Is there a good place of information for avoiding newbie
> problems and pitfalls?

You did read Documentation/zorro.txt? It's not much, but I think it's
everything we have.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Drivers situation

[Giorgio T. <de...@ip...>]

Hi,
this is the second episode of my last mail concerning IOBlix driver,
i wish to inform you that i shall try to write the parallel drivers
of the same card (LP & PLIP) because they seems quite simple 
(not easy).
But i shall delay them because of Italy's summer weather: i have not 
the air conditioning in my apartment and the off-limits programming
is not in my philosophy ;-). 

Jokes apart.
I wish to have some informations about Cyberstorm SCSI driver
and Buddha IDE driver.
1) Is anyone working on Cyberstorm SCSI ? 
   Nicholai said to me months ago that nobody was working on it.
   The situation is changed or not ?  
2) Buddha IDE driver has a problem on my computer: when reboot
   it locks the process of restart and i must switch off the machine
   and then (naturally) on. This problem is described in its docs in 
   the kernel's source block devices directory, but i wish to know 
   if there is someone that is improving it.
   I have tried to remove the $FC0 write instruction because ,as of
   that docs, it is used only with buggy hardware. The driver ignored
   my modify continuing to work normally after the new kernel's 
   compilation and bootstrap, but the reboot problem still remains.     
   Do you know something about ? 
   Any suggestion ?

Thanks

P.S. Dear Michel, thank you for the patch manager suggestion,
     i am a sort of "caveman" about Mailing List services :-) .
     
 
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                                                 Giorgio Terzi

Re: 2.4 report

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Frank Petzold wrote:
> BTW, amifb shows unresolved symbols when compiled as a module.

Which symbols? It works fine as a module on my m68k box.

If it's the amiga_intena_valse, please update the APUS stuff cfr.
arch/m68k/amiga/config.c.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: struct Node offsets Problem fixed (i think) (fwd)

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Nicholai Benalal wrote:
> *** Vidaresänt brev, ursprungligen skrivet av Giorgio Terzi den 27-Jun-00 ***
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> (because of alignments ;-)  please read this e-mail with something
> like a plain editor, with fixed width font, thanks).

> struct Node                                 offsets
> {                                      packed   not packed
    [...]
> } __attribute__ ((aligned (2), packed));

struct ConfigDev has had `__attribute__ ((packed)) since ages.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: IOBlix Zorro2 Serial driver

[Michel <da...@re...>]

Giorgio Terzi wrote:

> this is my first attempt to make a driver for Linux so
> please be patient with me :). Thanks.
> 
> I send to you the diff file for the 2.2.10 APUS kernel and
> soon as possible i will send it to our 68K brothers.
> It adds itself in the make menuconfig general menu of the kernel
> and can be compiled as a module.
> 
> In my box (A4000) it works pretty but i think it needs some other
> tests.
> 
> I am not sure if it is portable to A1200 because i have not that
> computer to test the driver.

I'm sure there's people who'd like to test it - Alan, will you make a new
(test ?) release?


Thanks for the submission Giorgio!


Michel


PS: Actually, there's a patch manager on SourceForge ;)

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IOBlix Zorro2 Serial driver

[Giorgio T. <de...@ip...>]

Hi,

this is my first attempt to make a driver for Linux so
please be patient with me :). Thanks.

I send to you the diff file for the 2.2.10 APUS kernel and
soon as possible i will send it to our 68K brothers.
It adds itself in the make menuconfig general menu of the kernel 
and can be compiled as a module.

In my box (A4000) it works pretty but i think it needs some other 
tests.

I am not sure if it is portable to A1200 because i have not that
computer to test the driver.



Bye,

-- 
                                                 Giorgio Terzi

Zorro programming

[<fh...@at...>]

Has any of you folks that have done extensive Zorro programming ever wrote
a tutorial to help the newbie APUS programmer?  It not here's your chance?

Seriously, Is there a good place of information for avoiding newbie
problems and pitfalls?

Fred

Re: 2.4 report

[Roman Z. <zi...@fh...>]

Hi,

> > Unfortunately, I was not able to make either amiserial nor MFCIII serial
> > work. amiserial did not compile (neither as module nor in kernel) and it
> > looks like the MFC stuff was never compiled at all.
> 
> I can confirm amiserial doesn't build.

Hmm, somehow it got lost. Anyway, it's commited now, sorry for the delay.

bye, Roman

Re: 2.4 report

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

hi,

> I'm having problems to boot it ("Compressed image too large!").

dont compress the image. i found that upon decompression you get that
error.
 
alan

Re: 2.4 report

[Frank P. <fp...@zu...>]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 03:57:48PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> It tried to compile MFC for me (as a module), but there were errors. The same
> goes for most ethernet drivers, the joystick driver, ...

I tried to give the MFC driver the includes from 2.2, but it failed anyway. 
Unfortunenately I do not have more time to really port it to 2.4.
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Re: 2.4 report

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Frank Petzold wrote:
> 
> I have done some tests with the 2.3 (2.4-test2) kernel yesterday. It
> boots, and I can compile a kernel under it.

I'm having problems to boot it ("Compressed image too large!").


> Unfortunately, I was not able to make either amiserial nor MFCIII serial
> work. amiserial did not compile (neither as module nor in kernel) and it
> looks like the MFC stuff was never compiled at all.

I can confirm amiserial doesn't build.

It tried to compile MFC for me (as a module), but there were errors. The same
goes for most ethernet drivers, the joystick driver, ...


Michel


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Re: the FTP site and the other stuff

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Alan Buxey wrote:

> > The stuff on the Project Page is located on download.sourceforge.net.
> > If you have time Alan, please upload everything from the FTP area there
> > (old versions for the modules can be uploaded, just give the correct date)
> > and move it to obsolete.
> 
> hmmm, this doesnt give much scope - i like all the file areas that are in
> the FTP directories... it also allows people to just mirror the stuff to
> their harddrive. with the current situation you have to CVS to get the
> kernel source and then use web browser (or FTP) to get the boothack and
> kernel image.

But with CVS, one can always be up to date with development without needing
much bandwidth.

For the releases, we should just put the diffs to the native kernel there as
well, I really don't see a point in putting the whole tree anywhere.


> what would people think if I cleaned up the FTP area (and also moved some
> older modules to the linux-apus modules area)

Please do, and please move stuff to be removed to obsolete instead of removing
it right away. My plan is to remove things from obsolete if we ever run out of
space.


> and got the latest 2.2.x and
> 2.3.x via CVS and placed those into FTP (so less experienced people can
> just keep using FTP to get latest LinuxAPUS source code kernel?)

I don't like that. From The Project Page: "Projects may choose to have files
other than their main releases available via anonymous FTP."

I think in the long run, the FTP area should hold nothing more than contrib,
misc etc.


Michel


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