(more) 2.4 problems / G4/500/1GB dual processor / USB

[Marcus H. Mendenhall]

I tried yesterday compiling 2.4.0-test7 from the linuxcare.au
linux-pmac-devel tree (I also tried the linux-pmac-benh tree with
similar results).  Comments:

The kernel only recognizes 512MB of memory. I was hoping 2.4 would
let me move beyond the 680 (or so) MB I can successfully access with
the 2.2.17 linux-pmac-stable kernel.

I get a series of PCI address conflicts when probing the PCI bus
which result in my ethernet card not being able to be turned on. I am
not using the built-in GMAC, but an older Apple 10/100 PCI card. This
does not happen with the linux-pmac-stable kernel.

The USB mouse and keyboard are completely messed up (using the new
input layer).  The mouse is frozen, and the keyboard returns
(thoroughly) scrambled keycodes.   I noticed in a previous comment
something about changing keycodes... is the setup completely
different in 2.4?


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