I have some development boards based on the EBSA285 with integrated
Promise 20262 IDE controllers and 13GB Quantum Fireball CR
disks. Currently, they're running a slightly patched version of
2.2.7-rmk4, and the disk performance is horrible -- peaks at a bit
over 6MB/sec while chewing up all of the CPU. Since I want to use them
as servers, this isn't really good enough.
What's my best option for getting this to work? I've tried running
2.2.12-rmk1, but I get weird scheduler crashes and stack corruption
right after the kernel starts up init. I've also tried 2.3.19-rmk1,
but it completely fails to boot -- no console messages at all.
I've had to apply some patches to 2.2.12 to get the machine to boot as
far as it does; when I separate them out I'll either post them or make
them web/ftp available.
Oh -- I'm building my kernels with gcc and binutils from the
gcc-2.95.1-1nw5 and binutils-2.9.1.0.25-1nw2 RPMs from
ftp.netwinder.org. Is this fine, or should I be using something else?
I'm fairly new to Linux on the ARM platform, so I'm still not entirely
sure what the best way to go about this is.
Any suggestions?
--nat
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