Re: Linux on Amiga A600, a success story (in progress, with possible patch)

[Patrick Bottelberger <patrick.bottelberger@sigon.net>]

Hi Geert,

Geert Uytterhoeven schrieb:
>> Without supplying the '-p' parameter amiboot didn't output anything at
>> all, it just froze the amiga directly after entering the command.
>>     
>
> Even with '-d'?
>   
Yes, even with "-d", no output is printed, after entering the command
("amiboot -d root=/dev/hda5" for example) and pressing "enter" the
system freezes immediately.

> I can't reproduce it on ARAnyM with 3.1.4.
>
>   
>> Call Trace: [<0000ffff>] mm_release+0xa1/0xa4
>>  [<002b84fa>] topology_sysfs_init+0x0/0x1e
>>
>> Seems to prove that, do you think
>>     
>
> But this indeed looks like the same problem. Are you using a Debianized 3.1.4
> source tree?
>   
I just checked again, yes, you're right, i totally forgot i patched my
source tree with the Debian patches, sorry :-(

>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-m68k/msg04709.html would solve the issue?
>>     
>
> Yes, that should fix this problem.
>   
It really did! Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, now i
got sysfs and udev again.
> You cannot rely on that message. It just assumes A2000/A500/A600 etc.
> have an A2000-style clock chip. But on all but A2000 the RTC is optional.
> BTW, I also asked Jens Schönfeld.
>   
After activating CONFIG_RTC_CLASS and CONFIG_RTC_DRV_MSM6242 in the
kernel and finally being able to get the device nodes created
automatically by udev, the RTC now works... somewhat. 8 out of 10 reads
from the RTC (via hctosys inside the kernel at startup, hwclock from
userspace or cat one of the special files inside /sys/class/rtc) return
successfully, but the other 2 return an ioctl()-error. I forgot which
exactly, i'll go upstairs to the Amiga later and write it down.

The PCMCIA-network still doesn't work, i'll recompile the kernel with
CONFIG_APNE=y (instead of m), maybe that will work.


Regards,
Patrick