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:
A4000/o3o with CyberStorm/PPC PPC604@150MHz (Jesper Skov).
A4000/o4o with CyberStorm/PPC PPC604@200MHz (Jeffrey W. Davis).
A4000/??? with CyberStorm/PPC PPC604@233MHz (Jens K. Jensen).
A1200 with Blizzard/PPC PPC603p@160MHz (Jouko Pynnonen).
A1200 with Blizzard/PPC PPC603p@200/210MHz (Michel Dänzer).
A1200 with Blizzard/PPC PPC603p@240MHz (Alan Buxey, Sven Luther).
A3000T with CyberStorm/PPC PPC604@233MHz (Francisco Sepulveda).
Device Drivers:
DISPLAY : AGA display. (Jesper Skov)
DISPLAY : CyberVision(/3D). (Sven Ottemann/Jimmy)
DISPLAY : Picasso II Clgen. (Francisco Sepulveda)
DISPLAY : PM2 (Ilario Nardinocchi) [1]
FLOPPY : Amiga floppy disk controller. (Sven Ottemann)
IDE : A4000 IDE controller. (Jesper Skov)
I/O : Amiga serial. (Jesper Skov).
I/O : Amiga printer. (Bartek Kozakiewicz)
I/O : GVP IO extender[2] (Ken Tyler)
NET : A2065. (Jesper Skov)
NET : Ariadne. (Thomas Lohmann)
NET : Ariadne II. [3] (Martin Koenig)
NET : Hydra. (Francisco Sepulveda)
NET : SurfSquirrel. (Carlos Mayo)
SCSI : A3000/T SCSI controller. (Thomas Haller/Arno Griffioen)
SCSI : GVP 11 SCSI controller. (Alex Kazik)
SCSI : GVP A2000-HC+8 Series II. (Thomas Lohmann)
SCSI : Oktagon 2008 SCSI. (Carsten Pluntke)
SCSI : A4091/4000T SCSI controller. [4] (Ken Tyler)
SCSI : Blizzard/PPC SCSI controller.[5] (Sven Luther)
SOUND : Amiga DMA sound. (Carsten Plunkte)
Software Drivers:
FS : affs (Jesper Skov).
FS : dos (Sven Ottemann).
FS : ext2 (Jesper Skov).
FS : hfs (Bartek Kozakiewicz).
FS : iso9660 (Bartek Kozakiewicz).
FS : joliet (Bartek Kozakiewicz).
FS : minix (Jesper Skov).
FS : proc (Jesper Skov).
FS : vfat (Sven Ottemann).
MISC : z2ram (Jesper Skov).
RAM : ram disk (initrd) (Jesper Skov).
PROTOCOLS: PPP (Carsten Pluntke).
| [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. |