Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Dave Jones wrote: > > > Can you repeat this with .17rc1 ? > > Dave, first, I'm sorry for the random complaint. It was uncalled for. > Obviously we wouldn't even be here if not for folks like you. Thank you. > > Yes, we'll try .17rc1 as we get time. The big effort this week is to try > to get 2.4.13 to really work on the l440gx, we're having eepro problems > again, the machine comes up and can send but not recieve RARP packets :-( > > FYI, another big problem we've had as 2.4 progresses is the gradual "bit > rot" of the framebuffer stuff. The Cirrus Logic devfb stuff just sort of > stopped working with 2.4.7 or so and has not come back. Same with the > matrox stuff -- I am not sure what's happening here. I don't know if the > other devfb is the same, but I'm wondering who I should relay this kind of > experience to. We've missed having working devfb. It was wonderful while > it lasted!
Hmm. The only framebuffer stuff I have had working was the permedia chip. I have a problem with blanks not being written to the screen (and so have left over text mode garabage) but otherwise it all works. > The other thing we've seen here is that 2.4.16 won't work with Two Kernel > Monte any more, we're not sure why. Ron. As of 2.4.14 the kexec stuff was working fine. I'll check back in a few days and see if it works on 2.4.16. I haven't published because I haven't yet verified that the alpha works... > Everything up to 2.4.13 is fine. > 2.4.16 just hangs, and that's when we found the vmware problem too. > Something changed in 2.4.16 startup, and that's the main reason I don't > recommend it for linuxbios-based systems. Maybe linuxbios should start > contributing to regression testing with new kernel versions? Can we help > somehow? > > Finally, I don't know if anyone knows this, but big chunks of MTD won't > even compile from 2.4.13 on if you turn them on. If memory serves it's the > flash translations layer stuff but I can get you more specifics. If you > want to see yourself just turn ALL the mtd stuff on, about 25% of it won't > compile. Ron big chunks of the MTD code was initially poorly factored. And that stuff has broken. Things link amd_flash.c. Last I looked this wasn't a real problem. Eric
