Re: hyperCOM1 and whippet fixes

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

Alan Buxey wrote:

> to all: If you make diffs, please use the patch manager, i can then grab
> these and apply them to the sources I use to make the boot kernels -
> looking forward to being able to supply people the latest serial drivers
> as modules 8-)

Yes Alan, I think it would be very nice if you could build the latest 2.2 CVS
(with pending patches applied as well) on a regular basis for the test module.


A few suggestions:

- Please put the files into a subdirectory which is named like the archives


For the config:

- Don't set CONFIG_MODVERSIONS. As you have noticed, it causes problems for us
  and isn't needed anyway as we're stuck with 2.2.10 ;)

- Set CONFIG_PCI and CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC

- You have set CONFIG_PARPORT and CONFIG_PARPORT_AMIGA, but IIRC only
  CONFIG_M68K_PRINTER works (comments?)

- CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY: Are there IDE floppies for Amigas?

- Set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI (at least as a module)

- Set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BUDDHA

- Set CONFIG_FILTER and CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES

- Set CONFIG_A2091_SCSI, CONFIG_GVP11_SCSI, CONFIG_CYBERSTORM_SCSI,
  CONFIG_CYBERSTORMII_SCSI, CONFIG_BLZ2060_SCSI, CONFIG_BLZ1230_SCSI,
  CONFIG_FASTLANE_SCSI and CONFIG_OKTAGON_SCSI

- Set CONFIG_APNE

- Set CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED, CONFIG_SLIP_SMART and CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6

- Set CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22

- Don't set CONFIG_NVRAM, but you might set CONFIG_RTC

- Set CONFIG_HFS_FS, CONFIG_MSDOS_FS, CONFIG_VFAT_FS and maybe CONFIG_ROMFS_FS

- Set CONFIG_SOUND_OSS and CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS (it's a software synthesizer
  for MIDI stuff)

- Finally, set CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ


I leave to you what you build into the kernel and what as modules. In general,
Stuff which isn't needed at boot time (before modules can be loaded) should be
a module so the kernel isn't bloated too much.


TIA

Michel


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