Different kernels on OldWorld Macs

[Thomas Kuehner]

Hi all

today I tested different kernels with the UMAX S900 (PPC 8500). Here are the
results:



*  BenH OldWorld SCSI kernel (linux-powermac-ow-scsi-2.4.20-benh)

This works best except that I cannot run MOL because I cannot rebuild MOL
kernel modules by a missing header config file in the kernel package :-(



* BitKeeper 2.4 Stable (vmlinux-bk-2.4.21-pre6)

Mounts / as ext2 because cannot do ext3. No built-in ethernet (MACE) - No
ethernet with DEC compatible PCI card!



* Kernel that shipped with YDL (2.4.20-8d)

Has no UW-SCSI card support. Therefore it cannot find the root device :-(((



* Kernel that YDL postet in the mailinglist (kernel-2.4.21-0.98a.ppc.rpm)

Has no UW-SCSI card support. Therefore it cannot find the root device :-(((



* Official 2.4 kernel (linux-official-2.4-2.4.20)

No built-in ethernet (MACE) - No ethernet with DEC compatible PCI card!



* BenH OldWorld Devel kernel (linux-benh-devel-2.4.20-ben10)

Same as with the stable BenH kernel. Works except for the MOL problem.



* The best kernel I'd ever run was the one that shipped with YDL 2.3

Id did all internal and additional ethernet, US-SCSI and Ultra-ATA support,
and the world was fine.

I do not understand, why the YDL-people removed this features, really I
don't.

It would be pleasant, if thy could offer a recompiled 2.4.20-8d kernel
including all the missing support.

IMHO Linux is most interesting for OldWorld Macs, more less for a G4 that
ships with Mac OS X...


Best guess: Recompiling 2.4.20-8d with adding the missing modules by myself.
- On a 233 MhZ 604e machine with 1,2 GB drive space left??? Funny, he.


Thomas
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