Re: Kernel 2.4.23 on Cobalt Qube2

[Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>]

Rainer Canavan wrote:

> I haven't tried my Qube2 yet, since that one's already wrapped up and
> ready for Karsten Merker to pick up - he's going to send it to the 
> Tulip Expert, so those problems may go away soon, hopefully. As to 
> kernel versions starting about 2.4.17, I've never had the tulip driver
> running reliably on my Qube2, but always got at least 2.4.18 and later 
> working properly on my nasRaq (there was some patching involved at times, 
> if I recall correctly).

Are these patches lying around someplace by chance?  I've used the 
patches on Paul Martin's site (which enables detection of the cobalt's 
"modified" tulip), as well as a patch from Karsten which fixed serial 
console and also enabled the tulip driver.  Both of those patches don't 
seem to fix the tulip's issue of halting though, so either I have broken 
hardware, or I've done something unique in my setup that triggers the issue.

I'd like to get ahold of any patches that I haven't tried yet in an 
attempt to either nail the problem or isolate the cause.

btw, anyone ever gotten tulip-diag to compile on mips?


--Kumba

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