On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:37:44 +0100, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > Hi, > > a short roundup of issues I am messing with: > > !!! WARNING !!! Kernel 2.4.18 (probably anything <2.4.21) > will eat filesystems on disks>137GB.
* chuckles * I didn't even figured out how to get this damned atari_fdisk to properly enable and setup extended partitions, so my 20Gb HD is pretty much underused already... > Newer kernels will not eat anything but only use max 137GB > on the Q40. The problem is well understood but not trivial > to fix in a way that preserves compatibility and is clean > enough to get accepted into mainstream. Actually, even > a quick and dirty fix is anything but easy. Not a big deal... Even on PCs, many 'old' (read 'one or to years old' !) BIOSes don't even accept hard drives over 60Gb... at least there is no stupid BIOS to impose such limits on the Q60. > Kernel 2.6 didnt boot last time I looked.. problem was probably > introduced around 2.5.99+, appears like an issue with the fragmented > Q40 memory map. > > rpm-4.2x works well with a patch ;) > > glibc-2.3 works :) Cool ! v2.1 is really limitating and some software can't be ported to the Q40/Q60 because of that (e.g. IceWM v1.2.x). > plenty of updated user packages and libs > > gcc issues: > > - libgcc_so in gcc3.3 is incompatible with previous versions > due to a change (a real improvement actually ;) in m68k exception > handling and version number wasnt bumped accordingly.. this makes > system upgrades not practical for average user. No chance to install the two libraries in parallele ? > - patches to improve 68060 performance available (longlong > instructions are most affected) Everything that can squeeze the latest drop of power out of the 68060 is a Good Thing(tm) :-) BTW, who could we bribe, at Motorola, so that they relaunch the 68060 production with modern technology ?... I'm still dreaming about a 2GHz 68060... I bet it would not be ridiculous at all when compared to Intel/AMD's over-complicated and bloated processors... > - ide-cd ICE problem may have been fixed in CVS according to > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12008 > but I didnt have a chance to test yet. For gcc-3.0 I use > a dirty workaround that simply disables the failing sanity check > > - global register variables problem still survives every > attempt to get fixed properly. > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7871 So a gcc v3.2 or 3.3 for the Q60 soon ? :-) > Current showstopper on the way to an updated distribution > is coreutils - sha1sum produces wrong results and I need > to figure out whether it is gcc or coreutils bug before > proceeding. Check the Mandrake site: they updated coreutils recently (I don't remember exactly why though). > On an obscure sidetrack of development, I have a functional > but slightly buggy native ocaml compiler for m68k > (http://www.ocaml.org/).. needed a fast and reliable RAD > language to update the dated, slow and insecure cgi scripts > in the Q40 distribution. RAD ? Thierry.
