Re: 2.4.0-test? woes

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

Robert Ramiega wrote:

> > > > > (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
> > > > ?
> >
> > Right, but that's independent of the PCI stuff. Noone has bothered to
> > adapt
>  I just can't get the connection between PCI for Permedia, Permedia support
> and bootstrap.

It's just that the way information about the PCI bridge is passed by boothack
to the kernel has changed in the later boothack versions. The 2.4 kernel
hasn't been adapted yet and thus it always thinks there's no Permedia2, so
pm2fb doesn't work.


> For now i won't be compiling "PCI for Permedia" in.... or maybe not.... i'm
> at loss here =o(((

_Don't_ compile it in because it

o doesn't work (the kernel doesn't even boot for me)

o isn't needed for pm2fb (I think I was a bit over-busy to this respect in
  2.2, in particular I forgot about the m68k Amigans who don't have PCI yet)


> Now i would give almost anything to have 2.4.0 working somewhat stable on my
> Amiga (it feels faster a lot)

Funny, it seems to be the other way around for most other archs...


Michel


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