Re: 2.4.0-test? woes

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

On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:02:57PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > permedia, tries to boot generic framebuffer and fails.
> 
> It can't fall back to another driver if the one you want (glint in this case)
> fails.
 Well i was just trying to analyze what's in that log file but i'm no expert
at it =o)))
> 
> 
> >  My Amiga just rebooted (i was running selfcompiled 2.4.0-test4) without
> > apparent reason
> 
> No kernel panic/oops/whatever either?
 Nothing! I've never seen it crashing like this before (there are times that
it hangs but this time it rebooted cleanly in to AmigaOS). There were 3 users
logged but none of them was doing something nasty (ok ok one of them was
playin NetHack ;o)  There is no trace of crash in any of the logs.

> > > > (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. For now i won't be compiling "PCI for Permedia" in.... or
maybe not.... i'm at loss here =o((( Now i would give almost anything to have
2.4.0 working somewhat stable on my Amiga (it feels faster a lot)

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