Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Update of CVS repository

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On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 23:41 +0100, Tobias Netzel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I finally put all my patches into the CVS repository.
> Because I have no experience in using CVS I updated some files that I 
> didn't change. And I didn't comment the changes at all.
> The changes consist of:
> - rewrite of PowerBook interrupt handling
> - patch of the PMU driver
> - enabling of power saving features
Previously stable 1400c w/250 Mhz Newer Tech G3 now has serious power
management problems with these changes.  Booting the kernel results in
system going to sleep as it attempts to recognize the ide devices.
System can only be revived by removing power and resetting.  Did you
test these power management changes?

> - SONIC driver (still not working - needs to be tested and improved on 
> PowerBooks 500PPC and 2300)
> - CS8900 driver for the Focus EtherLAN 1400
> - SMC9194 driver
> - change in the 8390 driver to not recognize cards that don't have an 
> 8390 chipset
> - update of the PowerBook SCSI driver to use Pseudo-DMA (there are 
> still issues with the driver blocking the kernel while doing I/O 
> transfers)
> - SWIM 2 floppy driver for the PowerBook expansion bay (still not 
> working)
> - update of the serial port driver to be more reliable (still needs to 
> be improved because of issues with hanging interrupts)
> - change in the hfsplus filesystem driver to allow an HFS plus 
> filesystem to be remounted read/writeable when although it is unclean
> - fix of the Menuconfig script to allow using it when the filename of 
> the awk executable is not "awk" but for example "gawk"
> - maybe something more that I forgot
> 
> I have built a working kernel from the repository.
> In order to be able to compile "Mach Kernel" images for use with the 
> MkLinux boot loader you have to use binutils prior to version 2.16 .
> The highest version of gcc that will produce a working kernel is 3.3 
> but 2.95 may be needed for Performas for example (for whatever reason).
> 
> Tobias
>