Re: [PATCH v2] amiflop: get rid of sleep_on calls

[Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 05:21:17PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> > I just tried out my Amiga and it appears to be in better shape than
> > expected.  So I might get to actually test it when I find the time.  My
> > Amiga has no Linux installation so I need to whip up a ramdisk or
> > something else sufficient to test it.
> 
> I think the good old ELF ramdisk at
> ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/unix/Linux/680x0/v2.0/filesys/filesys-ELF-2.0.x-1400K-2.gz
> should be sufficient to give it a try...

Not that easy with just 8 Megs of Fast RAM.  Besides, I couldn't gunzip
the file to look at the image, gzip gives a format error.

Now, I finally got to test it with a very simply self-made initrd.  So
far I only did some read tests in a single thread (dd to /dev/null at
various offsets).  It didn't crash or hang, but I noticed that the
floppy motor is never shut off (I'm not sure about the motor, at least
the floppy LED stays on).  However, that is not a regression, I tested
the mainline code and it shows the same problem.