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| author | Joachim Nilsson <joachim@gnufans.org> | 2003-01-08 07:20:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Joachim Nilsson <joachim@gnufans.org> | 2003-01-08 07:20:00 +0000 |
| commit | 760be7eb3267117d4449f9fa4c53c6b596156b9d (patch) | |
| tree | 6f348af3a7fda1e61520074e606f4bc9dce87a77 /Hurd/JoachimNilssonHurdPage.mdwn | |
| parent | 0c86cb60795034fa9feb729808cf3665ff4bc200 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Hurd/JoachimNilssonHurdPage.mdwn b/Hurd/JoachimNilssonHurdPage.mdwn index c7976000..9e2acda6 100644 --- a/Hurd/JoachimNilssonHurdPage.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/JoachimNilssonHurdPage.mdwn @@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ I have used the Linux 2.2.22 patch as the base and added the Linux ide-2.2.20.01 **_Comments:_** -* A new alpha release will soon be made, the above lacks a couple of the drivers I wanted to include. -* Progress is slow. Off-board chipsets seem more difficult ... +* Progress is slow. + * Off-board chipsets seem more difficult ... + * PIIX chipset works, tuning included. ---- @@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ I have used the Linux 2.2.22 patch as the base and added the Linux ide-2.2.20.01 To test any of the work in this project you first need to upgrade the OSKit to Linux 2.2.22 (or later) using my patches below. The first stage deals with network drivers, 10 and 100 Mbps. Gigabit ethernet I have no possibility to test ... so they are **not** included. -I may, at a later date, include updates to drivers by Donald Becker. His company keeps new drivers at <http://www.scyld.com/network/> +I may, at a later date, also include updates to drivers by Donald Becker. See the drivers at <http://www.scyld.com/network/> <table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"> <tr> @@ -103,7 +104,7 @@ I may, at a later date, include updates to drivers by Donald Becker. His company * The patches are cummulative, i.e., you only need one. * The patches only upgrade existing OSKit drivers, they don't add support for new ones. Unlike the corresponding Linux patches. -To build [[Mach/OskitMach]] you also need some other [[Mach/UsefulOskitPatches]]. As well as two unofficial GNUmach2 patches. See Daniel Wagners post to bug-hurd, <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-December/011134.html>, or the [[Mach/UsefulOskitPatches]]. +To build [[Mach/OskitMach]] you also need some other [[Mach/OskitPatches]]. As well as two unofficial GNUmach2 patches. See Daniel Wagners post to bug-hurd, <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-December/011134.html>, or the [[Mach/OskitPatches]]. **_Tested NICs:_** @@ -219,15 +220,15 @@ These I have and will test eventually 3. Enable the sound drivers in the OSKit -- port a useful sound daemon. 4. SMP support for GNUmach2 - Current OSKit is broken. -## <a name="TWiki_FreeBSD_NIC_drivers_for_GN"> </a> [[TWiki/FreeBSD]] NIC drivers for GNUmach +### <a name="TWiki_FreeBSD_NIC_drivers_for_GN"> </a> [[TWiki/FreeBSD]] NIC drivers for GNUmach - I have looked into this a bit. The [[TWiki/FreeBSD]] PCI drivers are initialized from the [[TWiki/FreeBSD]] PCI probe. GNUmach uses the Linux PCI stuff which means the [[TWiki/FreeBSD]] probe will not run - this is probably solved in some ingenious way int the OSKit, but I've yet to find out about that. + I have looked into this a bit. The [[TWiki/FreeBSD]] PCI drivers are initialized from the [[TWiki/FreeBSD]] PCI probe. GNUmach v2 uses the Linux PCI stuff which means the [[TWiki/FreeBSD]] probe will not run - this is probably solved in some ingenious way in the OSKit, but I've yet to find out about that. ---- Feel free to contact me if you have any comments or suggestions. --- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - Nov 13th 2002 +-- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - Jan 8th 2003 ## <a name="Comments"> Comments </a> |