Hello Ruediger, Given that my home brewed kernel is running
the light weight version of the RTC . How do I implement the
Heavy weight version ?, Or is it necessary ? I am unable to
find anything in the .config that even remotely looks like
another RTC or the rtc-interupts you mentioned . Tia, JimL
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Ruediger Oertel wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > Hello All, can anyone point me in the right direction to
> > creating a booting kernel on this beast . I have without
> > difficulty created one for the as-200-4/100 that I have also
> > & I followed the recipe I do for that one (minus diff. cpu) .
> > I am also having on heck of a time with the builtin 21040 ether
> > chip on this beast , the redhat generic uses the De4x5.c driver
> > & I get ~50% packet losses with it . The same cable & hub work
> > flawlessly with my sparc . My config is after my .sig .
> > There is more below .
> >
> > Linux version 2.2.13-0.9 (root@pappy) (gcc egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
> > (egcs 1.1.2 release)) #3 Tue Feb 1 15:05:50 PST 2000
> > Booting os Sable using machine vector Sable from SRM
> > Command line: root=/dev/sda3 bootdevice=sda2 bootfile=vmlinux.gz
> > t2_init: HBASE was 0x2000
> > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> > Calibrating delay loop...
> >
> > Solid stop at that point ( Halt or reset ) is all there is .
> > The stock redhat does this .
> >
> > Linux version 2.2.13-0.9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc egcs-2.91.66
> > 19990314/Linux (egcs 1.1.2 release)) #3 Thu Dec 9 17:03:57
> > Booting GENERIC on Sable using machine vector Sable from SRM
> > Command line: root=/dev/sda3 bootdevice=sda2 bootfile=vmlinuz-2.2.13-0.9
> > t2_init: HBASE was 0x2000
> > Setting RTC_FREQ to 1024 Hz (25)
> > Turning on RTC interupts .
> > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> > Calibrating delay loop... 545.26 BogoMIPS
> > .........
> >
> > The only differances I see here is the messages about the
> > RTC . But the rtc is enabled in the config (I know it is) .
> > Tia, JimL
> the RTC is enabled, but just the lightweight-version, i.e. without
> rtc-interrupts (which would break mostly everything for smp).
>
> This is the first time I read of a machine running only with full-RTC ... ?
>
> with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
> Ruediger Oertel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> does "DONT PANIC" give a hint ?
>
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