Do you have output of dmesg showing the drivers loading or the PCI bus scanned?

onboard net not working, but the pci one :)
i keep looking... could only be someting little

by the way, with efika.forth the old 2.6.19 kernel binary from bplan issnet working anymore..

oops iam pretty blind... found it, i hope :) build onging

read & working! thx for all the good and quick helps.

It should, but I might have nuked a compatible entry by accident so one driver or another might stop detecting.

However that's probably highly unlikely. The 2.6.19 kernel shouldn't be affected at all by the changes the Efika script makes.

The openSUSE guys removed the EFIKA ethernet dirver, as non functional, in 'factory' :-) I hope, it will be included again with the next snapshot. 'efika.forth' should be publicized a bit more...

Tell them to put it back because it's a firmware bug and not a driver bug.

We can't publicise it more than it is being; everyone who does this stuff (Olaf etc.) already knows of it, and there is too much politiking around on who should shoulder the burden of fixing the bugs.

One Linux distro might remove support for ethernet.

One might require efika.forth and explain nicely how to use it.

One might recode it into a Linux patch and C code.

One might just whine about how our firmware doesn't support this, and Yaboot, and lots of other stuff, and refuse to support us.

Then the distro that was nice, will drop support for the architecture completely, or the developer will leave, and we start again.

I wrote the script to appease the guys on the LinuxPPC list who insisted that device tree hacks should be done in firmware and if possible very quickly removed from Linux. That goal has been done; we can remove the device tree fixups from Linux right now, and using efika.forth, the system will work wonderfully.

However now we have to convince the distro guys to ditch Yaboot and use GRUB2 since Yaboot cannot load efika.forth before it loads Linux, we have to explain to the users how they must run and load the script to get stuff to work, they will need GRUB2 which they will refuse to supply in distros because it is "unstable"..

All in all, it's too much politiking for me. We make one set of developers happy and another one jumps up and down angry at us.

The script is there for use. If they are really motivated to support Efika they will find a way to use it. If they are not, then we lose, but nobody here seems to want to do the work. I don't mean at Genesi - if we had the time or resources we would fix the firmware instead.

We gave away hundreds of boards and I don't see anyone really going out and fixing up Linux distros or submitting patches or releasing driver fixes at all, except those (Grant, Sylvain and Domen) who already pledged to do this before the Efika release.

And especially I see nothing from the guys who had projects pertaining to Linux kernel development and distribution support.

EDIT: this post is useles.. don't do this!

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Actually, the patch included with efika-dts-20071114.zip does not apply cleanly, when you have already patched 2.6.23.8 with nixnut's patches. Here is a new one:

000-powerpc-remove_pegasos_efika_dt_fixups.2.6.23.8.diff

Here is small "howto patch vanilla-sources-2.6.23.8 for efika":



it's easier than it looks like...

Neko: I would really like to see a fixed firmware. This efika.forth isn't bad, but it's not *that* user friendly...

EDIT: look at this shiny output :-)

mhh.. somehow the EFIKA network connection 'freezes' with the above patches. don't use it for now..

/me searches for the updated network driver

EDIT: nah.. this won't lead anywhere. let's just move on to 2.6.24_rcX :roll:

There's a couple of patches for the ethernet driver on linuxppc-dev - one from David Woodhouse that hit patchwork, but one from Jon Smirl that fixed some data corruption (same behaviour you had!) didn't get there.

It's in my inbox but I can't find reference to it on the archives or anywhere online (ARGH!)

Remember to get the new ethernet driver working you need the fixes from efika.forth.

I'm about a day away from a comprehensive solution which will burn the script into nvram for you guys.. :)

Thanks for the info. I'll wait for it poping up in patchwork.

Better to look through the archives. If Patchwork didn't pick it up automatically it's not going to find a 2 week old mail and add it today.

ok. I thought it would "not yet" be in patchwork.

Is it this patch?



(from http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-de ... 46090.html )

It's to late to build/test another kernel today. I'll test this tomorrow.

That's the one. Jon Smirl, wrong skb's referenced.. bingo.

yes, this works like a charm now!