2.2.18p19

2.2.18p19

[Giuliano Pochini]

Ok, I've just tried 2.2.18p19 tree from linuxcare. At the end of the make
process, after vmlinux has been created, it complains:


ld -T ../vmlinux.lds -Ttext 0x00800000 -o zvmlinux.tmp head.o misc.o
../coffboot/zlib.o vreset.o kbd.o of1275.o
vreset.o: In function `vga_init':
vreset.o(.text+0x3c2): undefined reference to `loops_per_jiffy'
vreset.o(.text+0x3c6): undefined reference to `loops_per_jiffy'

Same thing with the official 2.2.18p19.

I first tried USB-HIDBP and it freezes at boot. Less a second after the
mouse is turned on, it lights off and all freezes. 2.2.16p hadn't this
problem. USB-HID works fine.
My IDE CDROM is now /dev/hda instead hde. The ZIP is hdb instead of hdf.

I'm now trying to d/l the bk tree. rsync connection refused :-(

Bye.

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Re: 2.2.18p19

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>
>Ok, I've just tried 2.2.18p19 tree from linuxcare. At the end of the make
>process, after vmlinux has been created, it complains:
>
>
>ld -T ../vmlinux.lds -Ttext 0x00800000 -o zvmlinux.tmp head.o misc.o
>../coffboot/zlib.o vreset.o kbd.o of1275.o
>vreset.o: In function `vga_init':
>vreset.o(.text+0x3c2): undefined reference to `loops_per_jiffy'
>vreset.o(.text+0x3c6): undefined reference to `loops_per_jiffy'

I fixed that in the bitkeeper _2_2 tree, looks like Paulus don't have the
fix. You should not really care since you probably don't need the zImage.
The fix is easy, repalce the definition of loops_per_sec by
loops_per_jiffy in arch/ppc/boot/vreset.c and divide the value by HZ (100).

>Same thing with the official 2.2.18p19.
>
>I first tried USB-HIDBP and it freezes at boot. Less a second after the
>mouse is turned on, it lights off and all freezes. 2.2.16p hadn't this
>problem. USB-HID works fine.
>My IDE CDROM is now /dev/hda instead hde. The ZIP is hdb instead of hdf.
>
>I'm now trying to d/l the bk tree. rsync connection refused :-(

Hrm.... remind me your hardware ? I'll update my rsync tree from the
latest _2_2 tomorrow, I don't know it Paul's linux-pmac-stable is up-to-
date with bk _2_2.

Also, I don't think the boot protocol USB drivers will do any good for
you, especially if you use ADB-like keymaps. You should probably use the
HID drivers, as those were well tested on macs.

Ben.

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Re: 2.2.18p19

[Timothy A. Seufert]

At 5:20 AM +0100 11/4/00, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>Also, I don't think the boot protocol USB drivers will do any good for
>you, especially if you use ADB-like keymaps. You should probably use the
>HID drivers, as those were well tested on macs.

Not only that, but they seem to work better on PCs too.  I have
multiple computers, and a nifty KVM switch which is based on USB so
that I can easily share one USB keyboard & mouse among all my
computers even though one is a cheap PC and the others are Macs.  I
had problems with RH7 on the PC (wouldn't recognize the USB keyboard)
until I recompiled the kernel and selected HID instead of HIDBP.

   Tim Seufert

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