11 Sep 2002 04:58
Updates
Charles Hannum <abuse <at> spamalicious.com>
2002-09-11 02:58:02 GMT
2002-09-11 02:58:02 GMT
So I checked in Christian Limpach's bug fixes for SCSI and Turbo support. I also made some changes to allow the same boot block and kernel to work on both turbo and non-turbo machines, so there is no longer a need to build two sets. I also fixed some problems in the console driver. I've done some testing, and can verify that with these changes I was able to netboot both a mono slow slab and a color turbo slab. (Unfortunately, my mono turbo slab is not here, and my color slow slab seems to be defective -- it can't pass self-test.) There are some caveats, though: 1) I didn't have any SCSI drives handy to test, so the SCSI support may or may not work. Please let me know either way, but especially if it does. 2) On my color turbo, with the SCSI driver enabled, the kernel wedges in a loop printing `esp0: SCSI bus reset' during autoconfig. I haven't looked at this. 3) On the turbo, I get `xe0: discarding oversize frame (len=1519)' periodically (always with the same `len'), and network access seems to be slower than I would expect. It definitely feels slow than the non-turbo slab. I suspect something is still wrong here. 4) On the turbo, the boot block sometimes (well, really more often than not) aborts loading with `enintr: timed out'. That said, it's a step in the right direction, but it's not completely working yet.
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