Re: Testing requested for the next version of GNU Mach

[Richard Braun]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:50:06PM -0500, David Michael wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:27:50PM -0500, David Michael wrote:
> >> The same GRUB has no problem booting older gnumach (bee3f0) or Linux.
> >> Are you aware of any patches required by GRUB to boot the X15
> >> multiboot/biosmem bits?
> >
> > Thanks for your report.
> >
> > It's not related to GRUB at all apparently. My guess is something got
> > wrong in the Linux glue code for in kernel drivers. Could you build
> > gnumach with --disable-net-group --disable-pcmcia-group
> > --disable-wireless-group and try again please ?
> 
> Yes, that did it.  The latest gnumach can be booted with GRUB when
> those options are disabled.

It seems we've been having this bug for a long time, but noone is using
the in-kernel drivers for these boards any more, since the Debian
packages don't include them, only the userspace DDE ones.

-- 
Richard Braun