Hi, A while ago Rocard Mottola (sp?) said he had compiled 2.6.10 with some fixes from Brad and/or Finn (don't remember). He also asked anyone interested in...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Feb 5, 2005 11:28 am
7145
Hi, Oops sorry, ignore the first post please. Somehow I missed that I had also captured the interrupt messages, attached now. A while ago Rocard Mottola (sp?)...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Feb 5, 2005 11:38 am
7146
Hi Erik, ... ADB is the last thing to start, but I don't compile it into my kernels. What sort of NIC was it that got skipped, was it a Daynaport? I have a ...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Feb 5, 2005 2:36 pm
7147
... I would have expected both ethernet drivers to get loaded at the same time. The macsonic driver (onboard) first, then mac8390 (nubus). Are you sure both...
Brad Boyer
flar@...
Feb 5, 2005 11:44 pm
7148
... The only thing I know about the NIC is what is says in the Nubus output. The only markings I could find on the PCB of the NIC where consistent with the...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Feb 6, 2005 7:58 pm
7149
... I'll try to check it out when I get a kernel without adb. That'll hopefully allow me to boot into multi-user mode so sshd is started. Thanks, Erik ...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Feb 6, 2005 8:03 pm
7150
... It probably isn't compiled in. I'm not sure as I didn't build the kernel, Ricardo Mottola did. I still haven't found the time to build a cross-compiler...
Erik C.J. Laan
elaan@...
Feb 6, 2005 8:07 pm
7151
... If your i386 box is running Debian, take a look at the toolchain-source package for an easier way to build cross-compile toolchains. It supports nearly...
Brad Boyer
flar@...
Feb 6, 2005 8:31 pm
7152
Hey, ... drivers for both are compiled in. I slapped in all mac drievrs except the "generic media device support". Fact is that Sonic is almost the only...
Riccardo Mottola
rollei@...
Feb 7, 2005 9:47 am
7153
... No the Sonic driver is not working on your Quadra 840. As the 840 is an AV Mac it uses the Mace driver for the onboard Ethernet not the Sonic driver. I'm...
Raylynn Knight
audilover@...
Feb 8, 2005 5:57 am
7154
... Yes. I have a patch for that, re-using lots of code from the linux-mac68k 2.2 kernel. The SONIC driver in 2.4 is quite broken (and it is the same in 2.6). ...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Feb 8, 2005 3:13 pm
7155
... And I have to say Finns' 2.6 patch works great on my performa 575 with Apple Sonic card (with offset 2 and 32 bit dma). Now if we could only get a working...
bob_b@...
Feb 8, 2005 3:49 pm
7156
... Well, the devexit part in initializing the function table is supposed to be there to prevent references to stripped __exit functions. It should work to...
Brad Boyer
flar@...
Feb 10, 2005 5:15 pm
7157
... Having finally looked at the definition of the __devexit_p macro, it seems to me that the release method is supposed to be a null pointer. So Noah's patch...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Feb 12, 2005 5:04 am
7158
... I'm not sure this will get accepted in the mainline. In one sense, it's the right fix, because the release function being NULL only matters in the module...
Brad Boyer
flar@...
Feb 12, 2005 7:56 am
7159
... Indeed. __devexit_p() is used to set a function pointer for a routine that's in the __exit section, i.e. a cleanup routine. If module support and hotplug...
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert@...
Feb 12, 2005 9:20 am
7160
... ^^^^^^ __devexit, of course ... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@... In personal...
Geert Uytterhoeven
geert@...
Feb 12, 2005 9:21 am
7161
... If I understand correctly, that is a problem because macscsi_release calls NCR5380_exit which now has the __devexit attribute. I gather that this change...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Feb 12, 2005 11:12 am
7162
... An __exit function calls sht->release, so #ifdef MODULE is sufficient. ... _______________________________________________ linux-mac68k mailing list ...
Noah Misch
noah@...
Feb 13, 2005 4:09 am
7163
... I don't agree. MODULE is insufficient because when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is undefined and this driver is built into the kernel, it will not load. This is because...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Feb 13, 2005 6:02 am
7164
... Neither way will the check run for !MODULE,!HOTPLUG. By checking HOTPLUG besides, you additionally permit the check for !MODULE, HOTPLUG. In that...
Noah Misch
noah@...
Feb 13, 2005 6:32 am
7165
... True. Bad example. ... Why is it legitimate for sht->release to be NULL in that case? It won't be set NULL by the __devexit_p macro. For the purpose of...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Feb 13, 2005 7:28 am
7166
... Given !MODULE+HOTPLUG, sht->release will be NULL if the driver marked its release function with __exit and wrapped the .release pointer with __exit_p. ...
Noah Misch
noah@...
Feb 13, 2005 7:55 am
7167
I know a couple of friends already who have met a few nice honey’s off of this kind of stuff, but what do you think? I think it is pretty cool from what I...
K_Dennison
6b59194699cd41b664e23...
Feb 18, 2005 3:44 am
7168
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Noah Misch wrote: ... I would say that the "driver didn't set a release method" check was not intended to be a sanity check for discarded...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Feb 22, 2005 10:42 am
7169
... __devexit, of course. Either way, the second sentence now looks false. Given MODULE+!HOTPLUG, exit_this_scsi_driver and the __devexit .release are ...
Noah Misch
noah@...
Feb 23, 2005 4:02 am
7170
Once again I've been working on the interrupt handling in the 2.6 kernel (trying to fix the DP8390 transmit timeouts and MACE FIFO overruns). I noticed that...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Mar 1, 2005 10:52 am
7171
... Ah, I see. I was wondering if maybe it was there because some machines were using alt_via_mapping that shouldn't be. But I guess not. Thanks. -f ... ...
Finn Thain
ft01@...
Mar 2, 2005 4:20 am
7172
looking through the last three months of the mailing archives i see various references to 2.6 tests and/or patches, but i cant seem to find any place to obtain...
Mike Frysinger
vapier@...
Mar 10, 2005 6:41 am
7173
Hi Mike, ... Yes. It is maintained by Geert Uytterhoeven. Here is the repo: http://linux-m68k-cvs.apia.dhs.org/ The mailing list is this one, ...
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