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[Files] AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel availableANN.lu
Posted on 22-May-2003 11:23 GMT by Jürgen Schober16 comments
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New Version 2.4.21 Linux Kernel for the AmigaOne is available on sourceforge.net. Most noteable is the support for newer Radeon boards in the kernel fbdev (8500/9000).<bR>
Check out http://amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net/ for more information.

cheers
Jürgen
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 1 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 22-May-2003 10:12 GMT
And the million euro question is: Is the chsum bug gone?
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 2 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 22-May-2003 10:15 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Anonymous):
uh, cksum
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 3 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by takemehomegrandma on 22-May-2003 11:42 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Anonymous):
Checksum. ;-)
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 4 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Amon_Re on 22-May-2003 15:02 GMT
Actually, has anyone else been able to conform the bug was there in the first place?

Don't start flaming me or shouting at me (or eachother) just wondering :)

Amon_Re
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 5 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 22-May-2003 16:33 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Amon_Re):
Well, it sounds realistic a problem. What has to be discovered is WHEN it happens,
to fix it.
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 6 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Amon_Re on 22-May-2003 18:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
Exactly, shouting "it's got bugs" doesn't aid if one can't reproduce them to solve them :)

We actually can agree sometimes :)

Amon_Re
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 7 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by David Scheibler on 22-May-2003 19:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Amon_Re):
Obviously yes if you read Ben Hermans', olegil's and Juergen Schober's comments
in the other thread.
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 8 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Albatorsk on 22-May-2003 19:46 GMT
"Most noteable is the support for newer Radeon boards in the kernel fbdev"

Well, no, actually, the most notable thing is that Linux 2.4.21 hasn't been released yet.
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 9 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 22-May-2003 21:09 GMT
Oh deep joy.

Who gives a flying **** about running Linux on this?

This is *supposed* to be an "Amiga", only here we are fricking YEARS after Amiga Inc told us the "on schedule and rockin'" AmigaOS4 woudl be out, there there is still nothing.

*yawn*

Really amusing to see all the people who rushed out to buy an "Amiga" One saying how great it is at runniing Linux, because even now they STILL can't run AmigaOS on it...
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 10 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 22-May-2003 21:46 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Anonymous):
Woo-hoo, Phas...uhm...Eyetech try to steal the Amiga users away to Linux! >:-D
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 11 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Nate Downes on 22-May-2003 23:51 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Amon_Re):
It's there, it's bad, and it's a symptom of a worse problem.
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 12 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by miksuh on 23-May-2003 07:20 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Anonymous):
I have used years linux as a second OS on my Classic Amiga. i don't see any reason why you could not combine use of AmigaOS and Linux in the future too. When i have enough money for the AmigaOne or pegasos my main OS will be OS4/MOS but I will ofcourse use linux as an second alternative OS, because I can use it.
So Linux is not declining any interest to AmigaOS or MOS, Linux is just another alternative OS which allows you to run mainstream applications when you need those. I don't see why you should not combine best parts of the two worlds.
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 13 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 23-May-2003 07:40 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (miksuh):
You can not "combine" when only one element is available.

Face it - several people bought "Amiga" Ones in the mistaken belief that AOS4 woudl be available some day.

So far, it is not available, nor will it be this side of Christmas 2003.

So, these poor sods who wsted their money on obselete equipment (because lest's face it, by the time AOS4 comes out in 7 months time, an 800MHz G3 will be utterly obselete) now have to pretend how great it is running Linux on their slow old systems - had they actually wanted to run Linux, they coudl have got a much faster Linux system for a fraction of the price. But because of Amiga "on schedule and rockin'" Inc lying and fscking things up time and time again, there is STILL no AOS4 (3 years late, folks - 3 YEARS late).
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 14 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by alan buxey on 23-May-2003 13:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (miksuh):
i, too, have run Linux as a 2nd OS on my classic Amiga for years.

what i can say is that running Linux on AmigaONE makes it 100x easier to discover
and check any hardware bugs. AmigaOS would just crash hard! ;-)

alan
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 15 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Sigbjørn Skjæret on 23-May-2003 15:09 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (alan buxey):
Ehhh, please, no OS in the world could recover from a serious hardware bug, unless it happens to know how to (or just accidentally) work around them.

If the hardware locks up, trashes your data or whatever, no amount of memory protection or somesuch will save you, after all, it's the hardware that fucks up, NOT the software...


- CISC
AmigaOne: Linux 2.4.21 Kernel available : Comment 16 of 16ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 25-May-2003 13:43 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (Sigbjørn Skjæret):
Actually Linux is much, much better than AmigaOS in this regard so Alan is more-or-less right. Examples:

Dodgy SCSI disk in old server => Tons of errors logged, SMART readings low, disk eventually died but we were expecting it.

Random 3D game crashes, diagnosed by leaving machine thrashing with text console, just prior to crash Linux reported an MCE which decoded more or less as "bad RAM". Sure enough replacing a DIMM fixed it.
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