Re: Is now a good time to revisit kernel booting on OldWorld PowerMac
--- Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 04:20:32PM -0700, brian wrote: hi, all i just got a later 2.6.18-rc7 experimental, of september16, from link sven posted earlier last week: http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/ will try it tonight (unless advised otherwise) Please try : http://people.debian.org/~luther/linux-image-2.6.18-rc7-powerpc_2.6.17+2.6.18-rc7-0experimental.1_powerpc.deb Or wait for tomorrows snapshot which include the fix. this one boots my beige (G3 3/98 rev b, 192RAM, ... ) straight into sarge (ready for upgrade, i guess). i ran top and let it idle a few minutes and watched the buffer/cache go up. it wanted about 40 MB to idle and 80 more for the b/c. i started aptitude , it starts fast and took 8MB. so as far as i could tell w/out upgrading, it is fine. no help for the powerbook (603ev 2/97, 80RAM) though. hmmm. (i used the 3400 to make the ram disk and copied it over via applenet) mixed on this. i actually have a task for the beige i got last week, so something good there. still i find typing with the newer laptops very tough on my hands (old keyboard = much better ergonomics for me). brian __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is now a good time to revisit kernel booting on OldWorld PowerMac
hi, all i just got a later 2.6.18-rc7 experimental, of september16, from link sven posted earlier last week: http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/ will try it tonight (unless advised otherwise) brian note: have claim by some kernel developer (not ppc) resisting the initrd things that they waste RAM, creating problems for older more limited machines (which may have hard limits as well as expensive proprietary memory modules). I personally do notice that my new world mac is using twice the RAM for everything, according to output of top, compared to my old world. the main differences are 2.6.15 vs 16 and initramfs.conf modules=most vs modules=dep (cuts ramdisk size by ~40%). should not this be a bug, or is simply dealing with newer hardwares, or is cause by problems in 16,17 , maybe fix in 18. we'll see i guess. --- brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i tried the sept5th version of 2.6.18-rc6 from ppckernel with bootx on powerbook3400, it hangs at the first line, Welcome to linux ... i tried to pull Sven's link there but that page was blank/said adress unavailable - check spelling. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is now a good time to revisit kernel booting on OldWorld PowerMac
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 04:20:32PM -0700, brian wrote: hi, all i just got a later 2.6.18-rc7 experimental, of september16, from link sven posted earlier last week: http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/ will try it tonight (unless advised otherwise) Please try : http://people.debian.org/~luther/linux-image-2.6.18-rc7-powerpc_2.6.17+2.6.18-rc7-0experimental.1_powerpc.deb Or wait for tomorrows snapshot which include the fix. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
