Re: Docs for programming FDC on Alpha

["B. James Phillippe" <bryan terran org>]

On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Jaap Schellekens wrote:

> B. James Phillippe writes:
>  > floppy driver (2.88MB thing, "bizaare FDC" message, etc), and the second is
>  > that the ftape driver for Alpha is unmaintained.
> 
> Are you sure? I use the latest ftape driver 4.02 in my XLT300 and it
> works fine. You need the 4.xx driver, previous versions do not seem to 
> work on  the alpha.

Ah, are you running 2.0?  The problem I am having must be 2.1 related,
then.  The first problem I had (I am using 4.02, btw [trying to use it,
anyway]) was with the inclusion of <asm/current.h> by <linux/sched.h>.
David Miller pointed out that I needed to add "-mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8" to
the MCONFIG.  That got me almost all the way.  The compile bombed out later
on 2.1-related timeout handling changes.  Perhaps it was unwise of me to
"lay into" the ftape sources as much as I did.  I think I overreacted to
the apparent unconcern by the ftape people for Alpha support, even after
offering to provide access to an Alpha for development.  If you have it
working on 2.0 though, I suppose there is much hope for 2.1.

thanks,
-bp
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