On Thu, 14 May 2009, Riccardo wrote:
> Hi, > > > The patches that I sent were merged into that release (2.6.29). So X11 > > works again, and mac_esp supports both SCSI busses on the quadras 9x0. > > > > very cool, I extra checked and I still had the option to disable the scsi BUS > in penguin. That option is ignored by the current driver. > Indeed I see: > [42949375.000000] mac_esp: using PDMA for controller 0 > [42949378.080000] mac_esp: using PDMA for controller 1 Good. PDMA is significantly faster than PIO (used in 2.6.26 and earlier). > My external MO disk doesn't get recognized though. I'll check that it > still works on MacOS though. > > X11 doesn't work for me, but I'll write separately about that. > > > I haven't heard anything more since you raised it on this mailing list > > back in October. I never implemented the workaround that was discussed > > at the time because I have more pressing bugs on my todo list, and > > because I'd like to try and figure out how the hardware works before > > resorting to workarounds... > > Oh sure, also because once a workaround gets implemented, the motivation > to do the real thing gets even less. The real access would be very good > together with EMILE. > [snip] Well, we established that the workaround would be OK with either Penguin or Emile. But the workaround offers no way to update the RTC, which means more clock drift between reboots worse than with a working RTC driver, which makes network time more attractive (and as I said in October, clock batteries are problematic to begin with, and for me this necessitates network time anyway). So that's why it is a low priority for me. Finn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
