Re: Debian kernel v2.6.38

[Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@googlemail.com>]

Hi Thorsten,
>>  - ataflop, atari_scsi, and atafb allocate ST-RAM only at driver
>> initialization,
>>     
>
> Speaking of atafb, with the trimmed-down patch I get garbled video
> with BootColorDepth 1, 4 or 8, and no option or video=atafb:vga2
> both; using video=atafb:vga4 (with BCD=4) has no output at all.
>   
Patch trimmed down in what respect? No ST-RAM pool allocation at all, or 
atafb trimmed down?
> This is no biggie for me, since the boxen work, but e.g. when
> there’s an “mounted n times” fsck, the machine takes ages longer
> to get up, and people will think it has frozen, so I’d very much
> like to get _some_ kind of fix into at least the second version
> of the Debian kernel, once we get past the initial hurdle…
>   
Geert has given me something to think about with the allocate_resource 
suggestion. If that works at module load time (both ataflop and 
atari_scsi ought to work as modules) it definitely would be the 
preferred way.

Cheers,

  Michael