Re: 2.4.0-test? woes

[Robert R. <ro...@pl...>]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 03:31:47PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> Possible, but it never hurts to try. Well possible that my (minor) changes to
> those files broke things so badly :(
 I've looked at the diff and it seemed that there are no big changes (but
some constants|macros appeared there so i figured that something had to
changed not only in pm2fb but in other files (don;t remember right now as i
looked at it some days ago) In the meantime i suspected something wrong with
gcc/binutils so i thought i'll rebuild 2.4.0-test4 with included (Your)
config file (only thing i changed was including IP aliasing support)

> >  Is PCI for Permedia needed in kernel to use X
> 
> It shouldn't. If it doesn't work without, that's a bug.
 Actually i don't know (i didn't try it.. i just think that XF4 can't find
permedia, tries to boot generic framebuffer and fails.
 My Amiga just rebooted (i was running selfcompiled 2.4.0-test4) without
apparent reason i start to think that there is something wrong with memory
management under test4 (i had mutt exitting abnormally twice)
 Anyway i'll recompile test5 (and i'll also try it with test4's pm2fb) and
see how it goes (i should now it tommorow morning)
> 
> > (and if so which bootstrap should i use the new one that's required for
> > 2.2.10 kernel or the old one that was kindly included by Michel Danzer in
> > 2.4.0-test4 tarball) ?
> 
> Note that PCI doesn't work yet in 2.4 . Guess I should also move that to a
 So basicaly for now with 2.4 we are stuck at old bootstrap right ?
> branch, unfortunately I don't have time to work at it right now.
 sounds familiar =o)))))

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