Chapter 6. Working Hardware And Drivers

When I get reports of hardware configurations that are known to work with Linux/APUS I put them in this section. You can match these against your own configuration to get an idea of whether Linux/APUS will work on your box.

Note that things listed here are not necessarily included in the precompiled kernels.

In comments are listed the people who reported the information - if you have information about a driver currently not on this list (or conflicting information) please let me know.

CyberStorm/PPC and Blizzard/PPC boards:

Device Drivers:

Software Drivers:

Notes

[1]

The driver included in the precompiled kernel is an old beta. If you want the up-to-date version get the latest sources from the PM webpage (see Chapter 12). Don't expect the precompiled version to behave as described on the webpage!

[2]

On some machines, the IO extender may cause the kernel to hang at startup. A crude hack can be used to work around this problem - ask on the mailing list for details if necessary.

[3]

There's a performance problem with the driver. It runs at 10% of the speed compared with the Amiga DOS driver.

[4]

You have to disable the use of BATs to map main memory. Add "nobats" to your kernel options. There are still some stability problems with this driver under Linux/APUS.

[5]

You have to disable the use of BATs to map main memory. Add "nobats" to your kernel options.