CRUX PPC

DONE!

I've just made a bootable iso for the sam440ep:

Hi,

when using patch linux-2.6.23.14-denx-Sam440ep.patch

i get:

can't find file to patch at input line xxxx no mater which file.
for example yosemite.c, even this does not work.

please help, where do I get these missing files?
what patch command/s do I use?

thanks

hi,

talking about
during installation process when you need to build your own kernel:



we are going to release our CRUX PPC 2.4RC1 with new ports repository enabled :wink:

please, stay tuned and give us your feedbacks!

You mean rc11, I suppose!

Hello,

I spent the last three days testing the lastest 2.4pre10 iso.

This is the point where i am currently :

- Sound is not (yet) working [1]
- PCI still broken (see forum), I can't use X
- I had some trouble with RTC. I had to tweak directly inside the .config to have the RTC working.
- network seems ok
- USB seems ok (mounting scsi cdrom, card reader)

I hope next release will see the pci working!

Thanks for the good work.

Czk.

[1]
undefined reference to 'bcom_gen_bd_tx_release|reset|init|release' in file mpc52xx_ac97.c

EDIT :

Just resolved the compile issue for the sound. Don't forgot to add Bestcomm GenBD in the plateform support section. Notice that the .config file in the iso for Efika do not have CONFIG_PPC_BESTCOM_GEN_BD enabled. This might cause trouble compiling with sound support.

hi Tcheko,
thanks a lot for your wide feedback! :D

We are going to release a Release Candidate (and then, quickly, the stable one). Just now i'm bootstraping all ISO packages to clean our binaries. After that we'll move 2.4 sources and ports repositories on our new svn server ().
We are going to enable a Wiki too.

CRUX PPC 2.4RC1 'll have 2.6.24.x kernel, i.e. an impruved Efika support. I'll be happy to receive your .config 'cause, for the moment, i've not an Efika to try.
BTW, sound isn't enabled in our minimal boot kernels.

About PCI and X.org, please read here:

and give a try with the patched xorg packages (xorg-server#1.4.0.90-3peg)

Thanks a lot too for cruxppc :) Too much fun with this source based distro. Much more painful than any other one! ;)




Great. Count on me for testing.



My .config is not module enabled and quite minimalistic supporting only what i need (ie : sound, usb, ether, ata, pci video, ext3, vfat, no ramfs/romfs or other fancy useless stuff). I plan to mod the kernel with some tiny patches to tear the size down. Actually my kernel is around 1.5Mb with driver inside. Too much :)

Where can I push my .config?



Sound is not really well supported anyway... I read some post on powerdev and it seems that the bestcomm sound driver is a three legged elephant...

Sadly, I planned to use my efika as a plug and play broadcasting server for live concert. I will have to wait that sound support works better... :(



I patched. X works now. I fight to install xfce4. Lots of dep... :)

To summarize :

Sound is installed, no error while playing sound but can't get any sound out yet. I unmuted and pushed the volume with alsamixer which recognize the ac97 soundcard. Will have to dig this further...

X is working now with the (binary :( ! ) patched xorg packages.

Network seems ok but I haven't plugged ether to some network switch. I will test network (dhcp, static, raw transfert performance) this week end if I have time to.

USB seems to work flawlessly. I tried an USB scsi slim dvdram with success (no burning, just reading from), My 1Gb vfat USB Pendrive is detected. I can mount/unmount it without trouble. This help with data transfert between my main host to Efika...

I did not test serial or other Efika features like irDa but I guess this works too...

Is there a tool for testing linux stuff? You see, kind of a roadmap with checkboxes? Some software company do this...

Hope this help.

Cya.

Efika works great with linux-2.6.24 (properly patched and configured, of course), these are the patch

and the .config and some screenshots:
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Easy for you. You did push one hour ago the config and the patch! ;)

I started my installation from latest iso 2.4pre11 for testing purpose and I never said that Efika do not work well with linux. It ask a lot of work to learn out to make it work the right way. Many post in many forums shows that it is not **easy** to make it work flawlessly.

Anyway, thanks for the patch and config. I will give a try to them tonite.

Czk.

CRUX PPC 2.4RC2 (32bit) with enabled new ppc port's repository 'll be available this week. Stay tuned!

Just to report that kernel 2.6.24.2 with efika patch from crux.it works fine.
I did upgrade cruxppc 2.2.1 -> to 2.4RC1 without problem this we.

Hope to see another 2.4RC release soon.

Czk.

hi,
thanks a lot for your feedbacks!!

Btw, do you have manually upgraded or with upgrade option in SETUP ?
2.2.1 -> 2.4 is really a big upgrade.

I did upgrade booting from the cd. I was warned that it could go wrong but it worked. Notice that my 2.2.1 did not have much tuning and was near straight out of the box install. I did the upgrade from the CD after upgrading the kernel to 2.6.24.2... I do think I play with fire doing this way but it worked...

How do we keep a system up to date? I was wondering about this. Googled a bit, it seems that it is not a trivial task ! Even with package managing stuff and carefully planed path, it looks like complex, difficult and dangerous.

It seems one of the most dangerous part to upgrade is the glibc which impact the whole system from kernel to simple command.

that's right. Upgrading is always a critical situation. :?

To update you can use ports or ilenia.
We are moving 2.4 branch to a new SVN server () then our repositories 'll be available again.

CRUX PPC 2.4RC5 (32bit and 64bit) with enabled new ppc ports repository is ready to be downloaded from our new website:

CRUX PPC 2.4RC6 (32bit and 64bit) with enabled new ppc ports repository is ready to be downloaded from our new website:




on 64bit machine: install64 root=/dev/hda
on iMac G5: install64 root=/dev/hda video=ofonly


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