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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:41:50 +0000
From: David Alan Gilbert <dg@cogency.co.uk>
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Olof Backing wrote:
>
> Hi,
> what about the latest release that people are working on? I have the need
> and the time of going for (ie. porting) the latest kernel
> (2.1.something-like-55-or-so) since I need the support for ROMFS and serial
> console. Anyone with me?
We would all like to be running the latest 2.1. kernels but unfortunatly the
elves are against us.
Until there is a definition for ARM ELF and then patches to GCC, binutils for it
we are stufed.
ARM have been promising the definition for ages now but so far I have
seen very little.
The 2.0.31 patches seem to work (give or take some nasties),
and I know some stuff has emerged into the 2.0.31 kernels
from the 2.1. series - but I doubt its everything you need.
As for 2.0.31 - the 2.0.31-9 patch seems to work on the old (A4xx) machines
with some minor tweaks, although at the moment the determination of MFM
disc sizes seems to have broken as does the ether1 support (which works on
other machines). On the positive side 2.0.31 seems to be SIGNIFICANTLY
faster on the old machines; I mean shockingly faster; I mean it might
actually be usable! And we don't know why.....
Dave
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