While a valid hd-media for current Unstable is being built by Adrian,
I though I could play around with Debian Sarge that was the latest
version with official m68k support. I got into my hands a D-Link
DE-660+ PCMCIA card that according [1] should work on Linux; I
already tested on AmigaOS and NetBSD/amiga and it's working like a
charm. The issue is that Debian Sarge doesn't detect it and there is
not even a kernel message referencing the pcmcia.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/tree/master/debian/installer/modules
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/tree/master/build/pkg-lists
Hi Adrian,snapshots.
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Sent: domingo, 26 de septiembre de 2021 14:51
Did you check whether the necessary kernel modules are present on the
booted installer system? They should be in /lib/modules/$(VERSION)/*.
On Debian Sarge it lists: 8390.o, a2065.o, apne.o, ariadne.o, dummy.o, hydra.o and zorro8390.o
The apne.o is the Amiga PCMCIA NE2000-compatible driver [1]. But it won't detect the DE-660+ for some reason (it ends on a kernel dump) if I force loading it.
Then it needs to be enabled as a debian-installer module in the directory
debian/installer/* in the kernel packaging source [1].
The module that contains apne driver is not on hd-media initrd, but it is in a udeb package -don't know which one- read after iso-scan got the ISO from any partition with a supported filesystem. So I can test it on Sarge hd-media, but not on recent
Also, I have seen there have been very recent kernel patches from Michael Schmitz to the Amiga PCMCIA driver [2], it looks like for probing 16-bit cards; so I think it will be better to make tests on a recent kernel snapshot rather than the old Sargedistribution. I will wait for the fixed hd-media.
If I am successful, I will make a install video -like the one I did for NetBSD [3]- and write updated install and FAQ documentation :)
Regards,
Carlos
[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.14.7/source/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/apne.c
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-m68k/1630206710-5954-3-git-send-email-schmitzmic@gmail.com/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ5fuCA5tM8
Carlos Milán Figueredo | HispaMSX System Operator | http://www.hispamsx.org | | telnet://bbs.hispamsx.org | https://calnus.com
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the 16 bit / 100 Mbit patches to
be accepted into the mainstream kernel. Haven't had any feedback from
netdev, and the review process on linux-m68k wasn't too encouraging
either. That said, I have another respin of the patch series in the
pipeline (need to check that this is a good time to submit patches to
netdev first).
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:02 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the 16 bit / 100 Mbit patches to
be accepted into the mainstream kernel. Haven't had any feedback from
netdev, and the review process on linux-m68k wasn't too encouraging
either. That said, I have another respin of the patch series in the
pipeline (need to check that this is a good time to submit patches to
netdev first).
Thanks for your perseverance!
We're at rc3 (i.e. past merge window), so net-next should be open for submission.
On 9/27/21 10:11, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:02 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the 16 bit / 100 Mbit patches to
be accepted into the mainstream kernel. Haven't had any feedback from
netdev, and the review process on linux-m68k wasn't too encouraging
either. That said, I have another respin of the patch series in the
pipeline (need to check that this is a good time to submit patches to
netdev first).
Thanks for your perseverance!
We're at rc3 (i.e. past merge window), so net-next should be open for submission.
Yes, it would be great if these improvements could get merged. :-)
And I should finally get my X-Surf500 setup configured so we can work on
that driver as well.
Adrian
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Hi Michael,
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:02 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the 16 bit / 100 Mbit patches to
be accepted into the mainstream kernel. Haven't had any feedback from
netdev, and the review process on linux-m68k wasn't too encouraging
either. That said, I have another respin of the patch series in the
pipeline (need to check that this is a good time to submit patches to
netdev first).
Thanks for your perseverance!
We're at rc3 (i.e. past merge window), so net-next should be open for submission.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
On 27/09/21 21:11, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:02 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the 16 bit / 100 Mbit patches to
be accepted into the mainstream kernel. Haven't had any feedback from
netdev, and the review process on linux-m68k wasn't too encouraging
either. That said, I have another respin of the patch series in the
pipeline (need to check that this is a good time to submit patches to
netdev first).
Thanks for your perseverance!
We're at rc3 (i.e. past merge window), so net-next should be open for submission.
Quick inspection of DaveM's netdev status page confirms that it indeed is.
I've so far sent APNE patches to net, not net-next, as these are
improvements to an existing driver. Anything wrong with that?
Hi Michael!
From: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
Sent: lunes, 27 de septiembre de 2021 0:00
Please check whether your card is indeed one of the supported 8390 or
compatible based cards (10 or 100 Mbit).
Taking a look at the Windows drivers, I can confirm it is indeed NE2000-compatible, but I was not able to find a reference to the 8390. It works on AmigaOS with cnet.device and on NetBSD/amiga out of the box.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the 16 bit / 100 Mbit patches to
be accepted into the mainstream kernel. Haven't had any feedback from
netdev, and the review process on linux-m68k wasn't too encouraging
either. That said, I have another respin of the patch series in the
pipeline (need to check that this is a good time to submit patches to
netdev first).
Thanks for letting me know. Am I correct to assume that the patch is to improve "possible" Linux support for cards that under AmigaOS would need the cnet16.device on AmigaOS?
Regards,
Carlos
Carlos Milán Figueredo | HispaMSX System Operator | http://www.hispamsx.org/ | telnet://bbs.hispamsx.org/ | https://calnus.com
We're at rc3 (i.e. past merge window), so net-next should be open for
submission.
Quick inspection of DaveM's netdev status page confirms that it indeed is. >>
I've so far sent APNE patches to net, not net-next, as these are
improvements to an existing driver. Anything wrong with that?
Fixes should have "[net]", new development "[net-next]".
I usually just ignore all of that, as I mainly send fixes to the netdev maintainers ;-)
Fixes should have "[net]", new development "[net-next]".
OK - patch has hopefully made it to netdev now.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/log/
Hi Michael!
On 9/28/21 09:19, Michael Schmitz wrote:
Fixes should have "[net]", new development "[net-next]".
OK - patch has hopefully made it to netdev now.
I'm not seeing it here, am I missing something?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/log/
Adrian
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