Hi Chris,
I agree on the TGA and USB issues. I will be testing out the idea of disabling
the future domain scsi driver in the generic kernel to see if that will help
boot up the miata. I also have to play with the PC164LX stuff to make sure it
works right.
-Octave
>Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:03:17 -0800 (PST)
>From: Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com>
>To: Chris Selivanow <cselivanow@qwicnet.com>
>cc: Slackware Alpha Development <slackware-alphadevel@slackware.com>
>Subject: Re: [slackware-alphadevel] Kernel for Avanti systems
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>> Started to install slack alpha on my AS400 this past weekend
>> (from a sync that I did around the 11th, our firewall has
>> been having problems, so I don't have anything newer and this
>> might no longer apply). I noticed that after aboot loads the
>> kernel and the kernel takes over that I no longer get a
>> console display. Of course, this is because the kernel didn't
>> have TGA framebuffer support included. It would be nice if it
>> was included. Of course, it would also be nice if we could
>> have one generic kernel too ;)
>
>Yes, having the one generic kernel would be a very nice thing. Maybe it's
>time to steal another distribution's configs. :)
>
>As for the TGA framebuffer support, that brings up a few interesting
>questions. I've basically figured out that the only framebuffers that work
>on Alphas are the TGA ones, correct? Additionally, there's a certain set
>of options that *must* be enabled for the TGA framebuffer to work.
>
>So if I were to nuke all framebuffer support except for the TGA cards,
>would that cause significant problems? Does anyone see a problem with
>that?
>
>I might also remove all USB support from the kernels since: (1) I don't
>think there are too many Alphas with USB support, and (2) I don't believe
>the OHCI drivers work properly. What does everyone think?
>
>--
>Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
>@n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
>print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
>
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