Re: Changes in the Valkyrie driver from 2.1.24 to 2.2.18

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Chris Boot wrote:

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It has struck me, after weeks of research, that my problems in booting my
5400/180 cold through OpenFirmware are caused by changes in the Linux

Chris, are you trying to boot with Quik? This, in fact, stopped working
on the 5400/6400 around kernel 2.1.125, IIRC. What's wrong with using
BootX?

Well, I was hoping not to have any Mac OS on this machine except a
full-blown Mac OS 9 when needed.  This would allow me to Quik-boot Linux and
set OF to use /AAPL,ROM when needed through my serial console.  I don't
believe I can choose between booting Linux/Mac OS in any other system using
a serial console (only built-in monitor).

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My suspicions were aroused when, after disabling CONFIG_FB, the machine
booted cold without any problems whatsoever.

And what display?

Well, I usually use the built-in one, but when I disabled CONFIG_FB, I
didn't use a display, I just used my serial console / telnet.

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Is it at all possible to use Valkyrie without going through OpenFirmware at
all?  It is not selectable if I disable CONFIG_FB_OF.  Would it be possible
to port the older non-OF driver to the newer kernel?  What are the
disadvantages of using the older memory-based driver to the newer OF-based
driver?

Have you tried 2.4.0-testX yet?

In 2.4.0-testX, valkyriefb is initialized without the help of offb.
I don't have a 2.2.18 tree at hand, but you can probably use a similar method
in 2.2.18 with some hacking (call valkyriefb_init() from
drivers/video/fbmem.c,
and not offb_init()).

Geert, this modification is contained in the 2.2.18 kernels from bk and
from Paul. It just didn't make it into the official 2.2.18 tree. But
most users of valkyrie probably don't care anyway.

I haven't tried the 2.4 tree because I didn't know how reliable it was.  I
guess it's time to try it now.  How/where do I get it?

You say that these changes didn't make it into the kernel.org tree, but
where do I get the BK images?  Is there a way of getting it through
FTP/HTTP?

Thanks,

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