re: apne

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On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, [iso-8859-2] Krystian Bac=B3awski wrote:
> > As far as I know apne driver in current version of kernel makes oops.
> >=20
> > I found out that apne driver in 2.4.20 kernel was modified by someone w=
ho
> > knew nothing about amiga (he/she cut out a lot of code with GAYLE symbo=
ls
> > and replaced readb/writeb with inb/outb). I replaced apne.c from curren=
t
> > cvs tree with old one from 2.4.18-cvs. As for me it works.
>=20
> PCMCIA is some sort of ISA, so inb() and friends should be OK.
> Most probably the ISA changes in the m68k-specific part of the tree weren=
't
> ported to APUS.

Of course should be ok, but someone also cut GAYLE_OFFSET and friends. Is
amiga pcmcia driver has anything to do with ISA ? Amiga 1200 doesn't have
ISA. PCMCIA is serviced by GAYLE chip.

> DISCLAIMER: since I don't have a PCMCIA Ethernet card I cannot guarantee =
that
> it works in the m68k tree neither.

I've posted that message yesterday, when I was really tired. Kernel with
this driver boots but there's something wrong not only with apne but also
with other things. For example when debian sarge boots sometimes it hungs
up on message line with "Setting system clock...", apne is detected but
it is not fuctional (as it was in 2.4.18).   =20

BTW. Also 2.4.18 kernel behaves oddly. It's quite stable but try to
install xserver 4.x.x and you will start running through the minefields :)
I've lost one ext2 partition and two reiserfs because of xserver 4.1.0
running on 2.4.18. I found out that this version corrupt data written to
harddisk. Xserver 4.2.1 is a bit better it doesn't corrupt data written to
"/" partition, but sometimes it trashes swap partition (what randomly
causes programs finish) and after a xserver's restart every(!) program
ends with "segmentation fault" error.

Regards
Krystian Baclawski

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