Re: A1200, kernel 2.4.x and bugs

[Krystian B. <cah...@st...>]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> I've posted this message about 2 weeks ago. There was no answer, so I don't
> know, if it really reached the ml.
>
> Some time ago I installed Debian Woody on my disk. I alsod upgraded kernel
> to 2.4.x (mainly because I need a filesystem with journal - I am tired of
> waiting for fsck to check whole disk, and from time to time I loose some
> important files).
>
> I tried many kernels and used the same system for all test. Results:
>
> 2.2.10 - lacks of any journaling fs, works stable, X works
>
> 2.4.13 - lacks of ext3 support, works stable, X doesn't work (monitor enters
> "power saving mode" and never gets up, keyboard is blocked, "heard-beat"
> works)
>
> 2.4.17 - has ext3 support, X works, standard amiga serial port works, kernel
> is unstable (from time to time it panics with message "Attempted to kill
> interrupt handler!", random networking tasks (inetd, smbd, exim, etc)
> spontanously make "kernel oops" or cause the kernel panic)
>
> 2.4.18-3 - as above, but serial port does not work (when I open a console on
> serial port and type any character system freezes - even no heat-beat), it
> is more unstable as 2.4.17, when I removed IDE support it was even more
> unstable.
>
> 2.4.20 - normally doesn't even boot, panics after detecting a PCMCIA
> Ethernet Card (log attached), when I removed that card it boots, but its
> also unstable.

The truth is that 2.4.x kernel are unstable and above 2.4.13 they're
unusable. There's nobody who can make it work on a1200 because most
developers are A4000 users. I'm one of A1200 user but I'm hmm... almost
alone and I have access to my amiga when I'm at home (studies in another
city)

> I used kernels from linux-apus.sourceforge.net, but there is no difference
> when I tried self compiled kernels.
>
> My system:
> A1200 with BlizzardPPC+SCSI+BVision, 80MBram, PCMCIA KingMax Ethernet, all
> drives are SCSI drives. I don't have any IDE drive. That's why 2.4.x
> kernels boots on my system.

2.4.20 should start using IDE driver. This problem is partially solved.
The thing with apne in 2.4.20 is more complex... I found a few errors in
apne.c driver but unfortunately it doesn't work as it worked in 2.4.18.
The bug is also somewhere else.

> How could I help to solve these problems?

Become Apus developer. If you know C language and you're able to
compile kernel yourself, you can really help us...

Kind Regards