On Thu, 14 May 2009, Riccardo wrote:
Hi,
The patches that I sent were merged into that release (2.6.29). So X11
works again, and mac_esp supports both SCSI busses on the quadras 9x0.
very cool, I extra checked and I still had the option to disable the scsi BUS
in penguin.
That option is ignored by the current driver.
Indeed I see:
[42949375.000000] mac_esp: using PDMA for controller 0
[42949378.080000] mac_esp: using PDMA for controller 1
Good. PDMA is significantly faster than PIO (used in 2.6.26 and earlier).
My external MO disk doesn't get recognized though. I'll check that it
still works on MacOS though.
X11 doesn't work for me, but I'll write separately about that.
I haven't heard anything more since you raised it on this mailing list
back in October. I never implemented the workaround that was discussed
at the time because I have more pressing bugs on my todo list, and
because I'd like to try and figure out how the hardware works before
resorting to workarounds...
Oh sure, also because once a workaround gets implemented, the motivation
to do the real thing gets even less. The real access would be very good
together with EMILE.
[snip]
Well, we established that the workaround would be OK with either Penguin
or Emile. But the workaround offers no way to update the RTC, which means
more clock drift between reboots worse than with a working RTC driver,
which makes network time more attractive (and as I said in October, clock
batteries are problematic to begin with, and for me this necessitates
network time anyway). So that's why it is a low priority for me.
Finn
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