linux-apus-devel

historical records of project + 2nd favour

[Alan B. <A.L...@lb...>]

hi,

I am trying to search through some old stuff for APUS. we moved to 
sourceforge in 2000... do we have the previous list discussions etc
archived away or searchable? Or could the archive by emailed to me.

in particular i'm looking for the early stuff when APUS first started and 
the CSPPC would just lock up (interupts) and the Blizzard was still
not working.


second favour: Any chance that someone could compile a kernel for
my APUS box that doesnt have any PCI active? My system is having issues
and i'm not sure if its because of the presence of a Mediator A1200 board
that is really screwing things up when the system undergoes its initial
probing.  i, unfortunately , dont have a cross-compiler.  if someone could
point me as a simple doc i could have a X-compiler within a couple
of days I guess.

alan

Re: historical records of project + 2nd favour

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

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Alan Buxey wrote:
> second favour: Any chance that someone could compile a kernel for
> my APUS box that doesnt have any PCI active? My system is having issues
> and i'm not sure if its because of the presence of a Mediator A1200 board
> that is really screwing things up when the system undergoes its initial
> probing.  i, unfortunately , dont have a cross-compiler.  if someone could
> point me as a simple doc i could have a X-compiler within a couple
> of days I guess.

apt-get install toolchain-source
less /usr/share/doc/toolchain-source/README

And 2 hours later you have one ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
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Re: historical records of project + 2nd favour

[Alan B. <A.L...@lb...>]

hi,

> apt-get install toolchain-source
> less /usr/share/doc/toolchain-source/README
> 
> And 2 hours later you have one ;-)

argh! the pain of not having a Debian x86 box around. I have redhat, 
freebsd (now that would be interesting).  I guess 'toolchain' is the
main clue here. handy for me to work on this anyway as i think there'll be
some Sharp Zaurus code I need to be working on anyway (and that needs
a cross-compiler working too!)

alan 

Re: historical records of project + 2nd favour

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

On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Alan Buxey wrote:
> > apt-get install toolchain-source
> > less /usr/share/doc/toolchain-source/README
> > 
> > And 2 hours later you have one ;-)
> 
> argh! the pain of not having a Debian x86 box around. I have redhat, 
> freebsd (now that would be interesting).  I guess 'toolchain' is the
> main clue here. handy for me to work on this anyway as i think there'll be
> some Sharp Zaurus code I need to be working on anyway (and that needs
> a cross-compiler working too!)

Even then, it's not that difficult if you just want to compile kernels, no
userspace apps.

Something like:
  - copy your PPC includes to /usr/local/powerpc-linux/include.
  - get binutils
  - ./configure powerpc-linux
  - make && make install
  - get gcc
  - ./configure powerpc-linux --enable-languages=c
  - make && make install

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@li...

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

Re: historical records of project + 2nd favour

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

On Fre, 2003-04-18 at 15:58, Alan Buxey wrote:
> 
> second favour: Any chance that someone could compile a kernel for
> my APUS box that doesnt have any PCI active?

PCI has been disabled in the official kernels since 2.4.18-2.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer

Re: historical records of project + 2nd favour

[Alan B. <A.L...@lb...>]

On 18 Apr 2003, Michel D=E4nzer wrote:

> PCI has been disabled in the official kernels since 2.4.18-2.

interesting...any particular reason why?=20

btw, i quickly tried the 2.4.20-1 image - it seems like the
old IDE interupt problem might have re-emerged (LAST_IPL
numbers are pritned, then dead)

alan

Re: historical records of project + 2nd favour

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

On Die, 2003-04-22 at 11:17, Alan Buxey wrote: 
> On 18 Apr 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > PCI has been disabled in the official kernels since 2.4.18-2.
> 
> interesting...any particular reason why? 

>From http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=109114 :

* disable PCI as it seems to cause more grief than joy yet


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Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer