Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
Ross, you would get better answers on this kind of stuff by asking on the
linuxppc-dev list for example.
Since figured out, but thanks for the pointer, I'll ask there in future.
Just to check, is it this list: http://lists.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev/ ?
Regards,
Hi,
We need some information to try and fix a problem we have with the most
recent 2.4.x kernels (a particular area of memory where the NVRAM is
located, cannot be accessed anymore once the Linux kernel boots, looks
like it's being mapped out).
The machine uses a 745x CPU, and I understand
Hi,
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Hmm, last time I used a floppy on my LongTrail, it did work (to my surprise,
since a few years earlier it was broken ;-)
Yes, CHRP had PC-style floppy controllers. And decent South Bridges used on PPC
(e.g. W53C883) usually support 32-bit ISA DMA.
The South
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
I have serious doubts the a1bootloader will be considered open source by
debian-legal, but i may be wrong.
How can you say this when you have never seen it in your life?
The a1boot loader (which we call SLB) makes use of GPL code for the
ext2/3 reading routines
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
Well, AOS 4 was supposed to use a hardware dongle to work, so ...
Which is unrelated to the boot loader.
The a1boot loader (which we call SLB) makes use of GPL code for the
ext2/3 reading routines (taken from GRUB), so it will be GPL'd too.
Cool. So i could try
Hi,
Gabriel Paubert wrote:
Hmm, the DMA controller is called the 8237. The 8259 is the PIC, aka
Painful Interrupt Controller.
Sorry! You are right, I always get those to numbers confused ;).
Once upon a while, Intel introduced a couple of PCI/ISA bridge with
enhanced DMA capabilities:
-
Hi,
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
To clarify that, the a1bootloader isn't just using routines from GRUB,
it is based around the same idea. It's a kind of GRUB for UBoot,
currently only useful if you use RDB partition maps, but technically you
can stuff it into an MBR as well. It isn't very
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
So, please avoid the errors of your forgoers, and contribute those changes
back to debian, even if it really is too late for sarge.
I did, if you take a look at the debian-bf list, a short while after I
produced the patches for the Woody installer (last year). But no
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
There's a number of stuff that I'm not sure about...
Remember that the A1 version of 2.4.22 is based on 2.4.22-ben1 or
-ben2.
That was 2.4.21-benh not 2.4.22.
2.4.22 they supposedly based off a stock kernel, but I kinda doubt that
too (no idea what they based
Hi,
Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Finally, i will be releasing a 2.4.26 powerpc kernel package next week, so
please provide a diff against this one (kernel-source + powerpc patch).
Fair enough. I'll do 2.4.25 packages localy to test the kernel with, and when
you release 2.4.26 I'll 'port'
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
Yeah, but what about the debian packages ? And you could have asked for help
to clean it up, couldn't you ?
What Debian packages? ;)
I worked on this with others in late 2002, early 2003. At that time,
there were other people working on this, so it was assumed it
Hi,
Jens Schmalzing wrote:
Turbo Fredriksson writes:
Anyone have an idea how to get 'official' support for the AmigaONE
in Debian GNU/Linux?
Implement it.
If the kernel source needs patching, try to get the patch into the
main kernel.org tree, or the Debian kernel-source package, or
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
BTW, i am curious, what is the latest status of the AmigaOne thingy, i
almost don't hear about those anymore, and since there were problems
with the buggy northbridge, i had a feeling that production stopped or
something such, but then my info comes mostly from
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
Compared to same priced x86 laptops, around 1300 Euros inclusive VAT,
the disadvantage of the ibook is that the screen is smaller (12 only)
but with mostly the same resolution. This can maybe even be seen as an
advantage in certain cases, as it makes for smaller laptops,
), but for that money, I can get a very powerful x86
laptop from a good company like IBM or Asus or some other.
Regards,
Ross..
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Hi,
Michael Cameron wrote:
All these laptops have built in modems too.
But beware, some are winmodems.
Not all of them ?
Possibly true, I haven't been shopping for a laptop for a long time though I
thought that some Sonys and possibly some Dells had non-winmodems. Perhaps
better
Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
My price includes tax (which we call GST of 10%). I like PowerPC (I have
So there is at least a 10% price difference here, which make your price
more like 1650 Euros.
I don't understand your calculation? My price _includes_ the tax, if I
remove the tax, it is
Hi,
Some of you might have heard of new PowerPC boards that are ATX form
factor, and will be priced and produced for consumer use.
We have been using Linux on them for a while now, and there is now a web
site dedicated to running Linux on these boards (kernel source + some
quick docs, pictures,
Hi,
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 11:26, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
A colleague is trying to get the distributed.net client in Linux to use
Altivec with a 7451 G4 CPU. I understand that when we build the program,
our version of gcc needs to support altivec (?) (I know nothing
Hi,
Guillaume Morin wrote:
As I understand it, the gcc vector extensions are only usable in gcc
3.2 (maybe 3.1), and you'd have to rebuild everything down to glibc
with -mabi=altivec if you want to use that.
No, you don't need to rebuild glibc to use gcc vector extensions. Indeed
Hi,
Guillaume Morin wrote:
You also need to build the program with -maltivec.
Re: gcc-3.2 not found - sorry I just found out why. I didn't realise
that testing packages were in the main pool area as well.
Regards,
Ross..
Hi,
A colleague is trying to get the distributed.net client in Linux to use
Altivec with a 7451 G4 CPU. I understand that when we build the program,
our version of gcc needs to support altivec (?) (I know nothing of
this).. is that right? We use gcc 2.95.3, would it support altivec, is
there
Hi,
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
ISA I/O space is the low part of PCI I/O space.
ISA memory space is something different (not available on Macs).
I should mention I am not using a Mac, it is an AmigaOne/MAI Teron
board, which is basically an ATX board with a VIA Southbridge (hence the
ISA
Hi,
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
I tried to built it (after changing CHRP_ISA_IO_BASE), but for some
reason there is no inb or outb functions, i.e
sio.c: In function `sio_write':
sio.c:80: warning: implicit declaration of function `outb'
sio.c: In function `sio_read':
sio.c:87: warning:
Hi,
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
O.k the inb and outb is fine now, but I get this weird (link) problem:
/sio.c:46: undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section
.fixup'
/sio.c:46: undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section
.fixup'
/sio.c:46: undefined reference to
Hi,
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
You didn't mmap() /dev/mem? You do need to use the mmap() result as _IO_BASE,
not the physical 0xfe00.
That's what you can do in ioperm().
Thanks for that! I got your program to build, and mine to build (and
work as I expected) after using mmap() from
Hi,
Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
This is kind of a survey for PowerPC Linux users.
Is it OK to make 32-bit PowerPC apps bigger and
slower to allow for running them on IBM's 64-bit
hardware? This would hurt everyone running Linux
on a Mac.
32 bit PowerPC Linux is not exclusive to the Mac. It is
Hi,
Michael D. Crawford wrote:
Although the extra services required for x86 might be cheaper to install
at first than the more expensive TerraSoft motherboard, the power bills
you receive would probably eat any savings in a few months.
Just a quick reminder to all that they are not called
Hi,
Craig Morehouse wrote:
Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard?
If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind.
Yes. I have the AmigaOne PowerPC board. The Terrasoft PowerPC board
(from MAI) and the AmigaOne are basically the same board, except that
the
Hi,
Rogério Brito wrote:
On Jan 19 2003, Craig Morehouse wrote:
Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard?
If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind.
Please, forgive my ignorance on the subject, but I see that
lately people are talking more and
Hi,
Are any of you out there using SB Live cards or ES1371 cards on your
PowerPC boxes?
Just curious to know because I get mixed results here, and I wonder if
there are some endian problems perhaps.
Regards,
Ross..
Hi,
As mentioned in the past, there is a new PowerPC board for consumers
called AmigaOne, and we have been porting the Linux kernel+some
drivers to it.
I run Debian Woody on mine and of what does work, works quite well.
I would like to help Debian support this board as a flavour of PPC (if
Hi,
Derrik Pates wrote:
I'm attaching a patch which does fix some of the problems with 3Dfx
video boards on big endian systems (like PowerPC). First, it introduces
setting bit 20 (Host byte word swizzle, from the Voodoo3 register
docs) in the srcFormat register setting, for the do_putc() and
Hi,
Derrik Pates wrote:
Ok, I'm attaching a better version of the previous patch, including a
fix that makes the boot logo appear correctly. I'm still trying to sort
out the hardware cursor.
The uglyness only happens in the 24bpp mode, I have found that the patch
doesn't fix it here, it
Hi,
Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote:
For boot-floppies questions, you can mail to debian-boot, but for
powerpc
boot-floppies, you probably got Colin's attention already. We can try to
help you out if you get in a bind.
I know just enough to be really dangerous. If it's more like a CHRP or
PReP
Hi,
William Crowshaw wrote:
This may be good news for people like me who'd rather
not support Apple by buying their over-priced,
eye-candy hardware and yet still want to use a
PowerPC. The company that produces YDL is selling a
PowerPC motherboard and complete systems. Here's the
link with
Hi,
Eric Deveaud wrote:
No.
But shame on me, I have to confess that I'm stupid.
Apparently the problems comes from bad HorizSync an VertRefresh values.
just putting something correct solve the problem.
As I was experimenting some problems with the radeonfb driver, before
BenH solve the
Hi,
Eric Deveaud wrote:
What's the problem that you were having with the radeonfb driver?
While trying to include the radeonfb driver (ie CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y) I
lost the console at boot time, it stay definitevely black.
it has been corrected by BenH few times ago
I've got a problem with
Hi,
Michel Dänzer wrote:
I switced over to a Radeon 7000, and I am getting similar results with
paletter, plus screen corruption. One interesting thing is the mouse
pointer is broken up, i.e, my mouse pointer is like the below right:
/\\ /
/ \ -- \ /
||
Hi,
Michel Dänzer wrote:
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 17:04, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
Finally, if I am not using radeonfb, and am using plain VGA console, and
I load X with radeon driver, then exit X, the screen goes blank (monitor
enter power saving mode) and nothing I do will bring it back.
I
was happening in the past). The mouse pointer is a block
in all resolutions/depths. I can't get a normal pointer.
I'll try it with a pm2.
Regards,
Ross..
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Hi,
Sven Luther wrote:
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 03:59:07PM +1100, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
What version of pm2fb did you use ? Err, that is in what kernel where
you using it ?
2.4.19
Notice that the pm2fb driver is quite old and unmaintained, so it may
not really have caught up
Hi,
Michel Dänzer wrote:
I'm working on getting Debian Linux ported to a new PPC board called an
AmigaOne.
I've been trying to use XFree86 4.1 with a Permedia2 (glint) video card.
It all seems to work well, but the palette is somehow trashed in most modes.
In 8bpp modes, the palette is
Hi,
von Boehn, Gunnar wrote:
I heard that the northbrigde which is used in the Amiga-One
and Pegasos has a bug which makes it loose data if you copy a lot.
As far as I know Bplan is going to take back and replace
all Pegasos sold so far.
Can anybody verify this info?
There is a bug yes,
Hi,
I'm working on getting Debian Linux ported to a new PPC board called an
AmigaOne.
I've been trying to use XFree86 4.1 with a Permedia2 (glint) video card.
It all seems to work well, but the palette is somehow trashed in most modes.
In 8bpp modes, the palette is fine.
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