linux-apus-devel

2.4 report

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

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

What really made me happy was that I could finally burn a CD with my
IDE CD-R (2.2 freezes when cdrecord is invoked). So, SCSI-generic and
IDE-SCSI both work.

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.

BTW, amifb shows unresolved symbols when compiled as a module.
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CH-8803 Rüschlikon/Switzerland, Tel.  +41-1-724-84-42  Fax.   +41-1-724-89-56
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Re: 2.4 report

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

Frank Petzold wrote:

> What really made me happy was that I could finally burn a CD with my
> IDE CD-R (2.2 freezes when cdrecord is invoked). So, SCSI-generic and
> IDE-SCSI both work.

Very cool. Can you please add a comment to that bug?


> 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.

MFC might not be in 2.4, but Jouko or Roman should have a working amiserial.


> BTW, amifb shows unresolved symbols when compiled as a module.

Hey, you're a developer, aren't you? ;)


Michel


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______________________________________________________________________________
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Debian Woody floppy images

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

Hello Michel,

i think you know that i am giving my collaboration to test 
APUS Debian Woody boot floppies with the supervision of 
Sven Luther.
I think that now the tests are more than beta and i wish
that this software could be tested also by other APUS 
people that uses Debian.
Note however that now this is still classified unstable.
1st) May i upload in some manner, somewhere in
     Our SourceForce space this software, with the
     needed notes and instructions ? 
2nd) I have seen in Debian package lists that 2.4.4
     kernel .deb appeared but after a while quickly 
     disappeared. (i however got my own copy... :))  
    Why this?  
     I had tested it with boot_floppies and all was fine:
     The kernel package was correctly handled when MAKing 
     boot floppies and also the root image loading was OK. 
     The 2 driver's images that was created was loaded 
     correctly and was very amazing to see the (very big) 
     list of modules that was possible to configure! 

For Sven,

As you asked me i am going to upload, if approved,
the boot images to SourceForge, these will be better 
that the ones i have uploaded to you:
they (what i have uploaded to you) had a problem in
the borders visualization that now is fixed,
and this copy will be with 2.4.4 ( unstable...) ;-).
I have finished 3 little progs to extract, build, boot 
and load the floppy disks (1.76M) with the 1.44M file
images. Note the word boot. :-).
I am refining these three and they will be added, 
with instructions, in the tarball i shall upload.
I shall also meet Alan Buxey: his program that creates
the boothack strings is a very good idea and i wish
to use it...
I am also continuing to update from Debian CVS my 
own archive of the software but i haven't seen yet 
added that two patches needed by APUS.
What do you think about ?

Weather report.
Now is evening.
I am sweating and my 17' monitor's plastic is near to melt.  
This is a sunny country... ;-) 
I wish to know if someone is able to build a sweaty face:
happy :-) , sad :-( , humour ;-) , but sweat ?
:))

Regards
-- 
                                                 Giorgio Terzi
                                                

Re: Debian Woody floppy images

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

Giorgio Terzi wrote:

> i think you know that i am giving my collaboration to test
> APUS Debian Woody boot floppies with the supervision of
> Sven Luther.
> I think that now the tests are more than beta and i wish
> that this software could be tested also by other APUS
> people that uses Debian.
> Note however that now this is still classified unstable.
> 1st) May i upload in some manner, somewhere in
>      Our SourceForce space this software, with the
>      needed notes and instructions ?

Sure go ahead! I suggest /home/groups/l/li/linux-apus/htdocs/debian/,
preserving the Debian directory hierarchy.

> 2nd) I have seen in Debian package lists that 2.4.4
>      kernel .deb appeared but after a while quickly
>      disappeared. (i however got my own copy... :))
>     Why this?

Probably a misunderstanding of the FTP admins. The source package was called
kernel-patch-2.4.4-apus and there was one binary package of the same name (for
the user to build his own kernels) and another one called
kernel-image-2.4.4-apus . I got a grave bug against the binary
kernel-patch-2.4.4-apus package because kernel-source-2.4.4, which it depended
on, was removed. I reassigned the bug to the ftp.debian.org virtual package so
that this package would get removed as well, but it seems all the packages
have been removed now. :(

Actually, I think the bug might have been against the source package in the
first place, that would mean I didn't look well enough, shame on me.

Anyway, I'll do my best to make sure there will be up-to-date 2.4 kernel
packages for the woody release. Speaking of this, are there any imminent
changes for 2.4.5 or can I go about making packages?


>      I had tested it with boot_floppies and all was fine:
>      The kernel package was correctly handled when MAKing
>      boot floppies and also the root image loading was OK.

Seems the move to use kernel-package for building does pay off. BTW did you
also get questions about lilo when installing kernel-image-2.4.4-apus?

>      The 2 driver's images that was created was loaded
>      correctly and was very amazing to see the (very big)
>      list of modules that was possible to configure!

I think a lot of modules I build won't be used by anyone, especially on the
boot-floppies, but as we're not limited space-wise, who cares? :)


> I am also continuing to update from Debian CVS my
> own archive of the software but i haven't seen yet
> added that two patches needed by APUS.

What patches?


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)    \   Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast   \        XFree86 and DRI project member

Re: Debian Woody floppy images

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

Hi,

"Michel Dänzer" wrote:

> Anyway, I'll do my best to make sure there will be up-to-date 2.4 kernel
> packages for the woody release. Speaking of this, are there any imminent
> changes for 2.4.5 or can I go about making packages?

I don't have anything right now. I can reproduce Ken's problem now, but
I'm still looking for the real cause...

bye, Roman

Re: Debian Woody floppy images

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:57:22PM +0200, Michel D=E4nzer wrote:
> Giorgio Terzi wrote:
>=20
> > i think you know that i am giving my collaboration to test
> > APUS Debian Woody boot floppies with the supervision of
> > Sven Luther.
> > I think that now the tests are more than beta and i wish
> > that this software could be tested also by other APUS
> > people that uses Debian.
> > Note however that now this is still classified unstable.
> > 1st) May i upload in some manner, somewhere in
> >      Our SourceForce space this software, with the
> >      needed notes and instructions ?
>=20
> Sure go ahead! I suggest /home/groups/l/li/linux-apus/htdocs/debian/,
> preserving the Debian directory hierarchy.
>=20
> > 2nd) I have seen in Debian package lists that 2.4.4
> >      kernel .deb appeared but after a while quickly
> >      disappeared. (i however got my own copy... :))
> >     Why this?
>=20
> Probably a misunderstanding of the FTP admins. The source package was c=
alled
> kernel-patch-2.4.4-apus and there was one binary package of the same na=
me (for
> the user to build his own kernels) and another one called
> kernel-image-2.4.4-apus . I got a grave bug against the binary
> kernel-patch-2.4.4-apus package because kernel-source-2.4.4, which it d=
epended
> on, was removed. I reassigned the bug to the ftp.debian.org virtual pac=
kage so
> that this package would get removed as well, but it seems all the packa=
ges
> have been removed now. :(
>=20
> Actually, I think the bug might have been against the source package in=
 the
> first place, that would mean I didn't look well enough, shame on me.
>=20
> Anyway, I'll do my best to make sure there will be up-to-date 2.4 kerne=
l
> packages for the woody release. Speaking of this, are there any imminen=
t
> changes for 2.4.5 or can I go about making packages?
>=20
>=20
> >      I had tested it with boot_floppies and all was fine:
> >      The kernel package was correctly handled when MAKing
> >      boot floppies and also the root image loading was OK.
>=20
> Seems the move to use kernel-package for building does pay off. BTW did=
 you
> also get questions about lilo when installing kernel-image-2.4.4-apus?

This should only happen if lilo is installed on the box, should it not ?

> >      The 2 driver's images that was created was loaded
> >      correctly and was very amazing to see the (very big)
> >      list of modules that was possible to configure!
>=20
> I think a lot of modules I build won't be used by anyone, especially on=
 the
> boot-floppies, but as we're not limited space-wise, who cares? :)

:)

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Re: Debian Woody floppy images

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:49:44PM +0200, Giorgio Terzi wrote:
> Hello Michel,
> 
> i think you know that i am giving my collaboration to test 
> APUS Debian Woody boot floppies with the supervision of 
> Sven Luther.
> I think that now the tests are more than beta and i wish
> that this software could be tested also by other APUS 
> people that uses Debian.
> Note however that now this is still classified unstable.
> 1st) May i upload in some manner, somewhere in
>      Our SourceForce space this software, with the
>      needed notes and instructions ? 
> 2nd) I have seen in Debian package lists that 2.4.4
>      kernel .deb appeared but after a while quickly 
>      disappeared. (i however got my own copy... :))  
>     Why this?  
>      I had tested it with boot_floppies and all was fine:
>      The kernel package was correctly handled when MAKing 
>      boot floppies and also the root image loading was OK. 
>      The 2 driver's images that was created was loaded 
>      correctly and was very amazing to see the (very big) 
>      list of modules that was possible to configure! 

mmm, very nice, ...

> For Sven,
> 
> As you asked me i am going to upload, if approved,
> the boot images to SourceForge, these will be better 
> that the ones i have uploaded to you:
> they (what i have uploaded to you) had a problem in
> the borders visualization that now is fixed,
> and this copy will be with 2.4.4 ( unstable...) ;-).
> I have finished 3 little progs to extract, build, boot 
> and load the floppy disks (1.76M) with the 1.44M file
> images. Note the word boot. :-).
> I am refining these three and they will be added, 
> with instructions, in the tarball i shall upload.
> I shall also meet Alan Buxey: his program that creates
> the boothack strings is a very good idea and i wish
> to use it...
> I am also continuing to update from Debian CVS my 
> own archive of the software but i haven't seen yet 
> added that two patches needed by APUS.
> What do you think about ?

mmm, will have a look nextly, and commit the patches. Michel could do it also,
if you send the diff to him.

> Weather report.
> Now is evening.
> I am sweating and my 17' monitor's plastic is near to melt.  
> This is a sunny country... ;-) 
> I wish to know if someone is able to build a sweaty face:
> happy :-) , sad :-( , humour ;-) , but sweat ?
> :))

=) ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther

Re: Debian Woody floppy images

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

Sven LUTHER wrote:

> > I am also continuing to update from Debian CVS my own archive of the
> > software but i haven't seen yet added that two patches needed by APUS.
> > What do you think about ?
> 
> mmm, will have a look nextly, and commit the patches. Michel could do it
> also, if you send the diff to him.

I think it's better if you do it after a peer review here, I don't a
boot-floppies setup handy and wonder if I even have write access to the
repository?


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)    \   Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast   \        XFree86 and DRI project member

Re: Debian Woody floppy images

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:28:31PM +0200, Michel D=E4nzer wrote:
> Sven LUTHER wrote:
>=20
> > > I am also continuing to update from Debian CVS my own archive of th=
e
> > > software but i haven't seen yet added that two patches needed by AP=
US.
> > > What do you think about ?
> >=20
> > mmm, will have a look nextly, and commit the patches. Michel could do=
 it
> > also, if you send the diff to him.
>=20
> I think it's better if you do it after a peer review here, I don't a
> boot-floppies setup handy and wonder if I even have write access to the
> repository?

Every developper has commit rights on the debian cvs tree.

Just follow the correzsponding README file in the boot floppy package.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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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______________________________________________________________________________
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)  \  CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \   member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS

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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CH-8803 Rüschlikon/Switzerland, Tel.  +41-1-724-84-42  Fax.   +41-1-724-89-56
 Business email: fp...@zu...          Private email: pe...@he...
   The opinions expressed here are mine and not necessarily those of IBM.

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

[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

[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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