2.6.2-pa3 framebuffer buglet and broken ALSA harmony driver
Probably better suited to the parisc-linux kernel list, but since I'm not a
kernel hacker, feel free to forward it there:
I just got around trying 2.6.2-pa3 on a 712.
First congratulations for the work done. Although upgrading the config to 2.6
required a lot more handworking than I would have thought, the resulting kernel
is indeed noticably faster that 2.4 on this 712 workstation.
1) One buglet in the framebuffer driver:
The kernel starts booting using the standard penguin as soon as it finds the STI
device, but then later switches to the PA-RISC penguin when it finds the console:
SCSI subsystem initialized
STI GSC/PCI core graphics driver Version 0.9a
id 2b4ded6d-40a00499, conforms to spec rev. 8.04
graphics card name: HPA208LC1024
fb0: stifb 1024x768-8 frame buffer device, HPA208LC1024, id: 2b4ded6d,
mmio: 0xf8100000
ikconfig 0.7 with /proc/config*
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Initializing Cryptographic API
Gecko-style soft power switch enabled.
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
I guess this mostly requires sanity checking in the config, to avoid being able
to enable features that will compete for the same resources?
2) ALSA Harmony drivers break during compiling.
There is an error message about some PCI-related function being undefined, which
breaks the kernel building process dead in its track.
Went back to using the OSS driver and disabled the ALSA drivers, as a result.
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Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
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