... This list probably isn't complete/accurate. But just to fill in some side questions, the only OSS mac is the Mac IIfx, and the only PSC macs are the AV...
Brad Boyer
flar@...
Aug 12, 2004 4:45 pm
6971
Hello, I'd like to write the floppy driver for quadra, centris, LC, II and others... But I need some information, I found driver in netBSD, but it is for IWM ...
Laurent Vivier
LaurentVivier@...
Aug 22, 2004 10:38 pm
6972
... This page says that there's already a linux driver for SWIM III, http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/ Someone ported the mklinux floppy driver (SWIM III) to...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Aug 23, 2004 3:21 am
6973
... Alright! Good to see someone's interested in doing something :). ... I have a document on SWIM internals. At some point Apple gave these documents to...
Alfred G. de Wijn
dwijn@...
Aug 23, 2004 6:58 am
6974
... I've worked on that stuff off and on, so if someone gets to this before I get back to it, talk to me about it. I got the IIfx SCSI almost working, but not...
Brad Boyer
flar@...
Aug 23, 2004 7:39 pm
6975
... Sorry to followup on my own message, forgot to write something. I also tested with the Syquest turned of, as you see from the 2.2.25 bootlog I'll generate...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Aug 25, 2004 2:01 pm
6976
Hi, These are the results of my experiments with the 2.6.7 and 2.6.8 kernels from Christian's site (http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/kernel-image/) on...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Aug 25, 2004 2:01 pm
6977
... There seems to be something wrong with the SONIC driver. Under 2.2.25 it reports: eth0: onboard / comm-slot SONIC at 0x50f0a000 eth0: revision 0x0004,...
Alfred G. de Wijn
dwijn@...
Aug 25, 2004 2:12 pm
6978
... Unfortunately yes I'm sure. First I'd only tried 2.6.7 and received the backward seek error. So I filtered both 2.6.7 and 2.6.8 through Finn perl-script...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Aug 25, 2004 3:49 pm
6979
... Because I'm not a coder I can't help with that, but thought that maybe the second NIC has a play in these errors. So this evening I took the second...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Aug 25, 2004 9:08 pm
6980
... Interesting. I configured SONIC out of the kernel to get past that (my Q650 also has a second, non-SONIC NIC). ... This is the ADB crash. You can delay it...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Aug 26, 2004 3:40 am
6981
... Are you sure about that? Christian's image for the Amiga I tried during the weekend didn't need this fix for Amiboot. And Amiboot does show the backward...
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert@...
Aug 26, 2004 8:54 am
6982
... http://lists.linux-m68k.org/pipermail/linux-m68k/ Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --...
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert@...
Aug 26, 2004 8:55 am
6983
... Thanks, Geert. Here is the post, in case anyone is interested in an ADB related panic dump... ...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Aug 26, 2004 1:23 pm
6984
... I'm not sure about the ADB problems, but netBSD seems to have a working SONIC driver. Maybe someone with a Q650, C skills, time and motivation could have...
Alfred G. de Wijn
dwijn@...
Aug 26, 2004 1:28 pm
6985
... Kars, the serial console on the Q650 really is cactus in 2.4 and 2.6 (works in 2.2). However, "debug=ser" does work, which is what Erik used. Following his...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Aug 26, 2004 1:53 pm
6986
... I just checked out the amiga and mac kernel images and they do need fixing (according to objdump -p, I don't have Amiboot). So, I guess Roman's patch ...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Aug 26, 2004 2:31 pm
6987
... Yep, same result here. The kernel I did manage to boot with Amiga-Lilo did have the stack program header... Strange... ... I can confirm it fixed my...
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert@...
Aug 26, 2004 3:03 pm
6988
... No alas I think there are more issues as Finn already pointed out, like the Sonic ethernet driver not working and the ADB panic dump. There's probably some...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Aug 26, 2004 9:44 pm
6989
... It is this patch for linux 2.6.8, http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2004/08/msg00322.html It is not in the linux-m68k CVS yet. It fixes the "unsupported...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Aug 27, 2004 2:30 am
6990
... I've just tested a 2.6.8.1 kernel configured without sonic or ADB on the Quadra 650. With this kernel I am able to login via rlogin over the kinetics...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Aug 29, 2004 8:08 am
6991
... I can only confirm I'm using the onboard Sonic. I hope someone with knowledge of the ethernet driver can indeed tell us wheter this change should be in...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Aug 31, 2004 9:39 am
6992
... Here's the corresponding patch, as sent to Marcelo: http://linux-m68k-cvs.ubb.ca/~geert/linux-m68k-2.4.x-merging/integrated-2.4.23-pre2/098-sonic.diff ...
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert@...
Aug 31, 2004 9:59 am
6993
... Sonic is broken on macs, and I think that the only other user of sonic.c is the MIPS jazzsonic driver. On the 2.2 front, the other drivers that call...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Aug 31, 2004 10:13 am
6994
... I can test a new 2.2.25 kernel right after it being available. With 2. kernsl there are other issues (SCSI disconnnect (probably solved with patch from...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Aug 31, 2004 10:18 am
6995
... Is there any instrumentation in the mac-specific code? ... I'm afraid it didn't help. ... I don't know which flags do what, but I turned these on, anyway: ...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Sep 2, 2004 2:05 am
6996
Hi Kars, ... Well, I just learned that the SCSI problem is not limited to read/write devices. I tried this: $modprobe isofs $mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt ...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Sep 2, 2004 4:33 am
6997
Hello, with information given by Alfred G. de Wijn and some examples in linux and netBSD, I wrote a floppy driver for the SWIM controller. You can find...
Laurent VIVIER
laurentvivier@...
Sep 2, 2004 1:21 pm
6998
Thank you Laurent, I will try this out next time I get my lc575mobo-in-a-colourclassic set up again. cheers! -Eric ... ...
Eric Shattow
shadow@...
Sep 2, 2004 10:25 pm
6999
Hello, my ADSL is up again, so I put some binaries in the EMILE sourceforge project page. I put a bootable floppy and ramdisk on a floppy. You can boot on the ...