D Gunawardena <
dinan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've managed to boot into Linux and even started X albeit restricted to 8bpp 640x480 and with a non-working mouse.
>
> The key issue is lack of the Iyonix specific kernel modules. This was
> stored at the castle website but it is long gone and
web.archive.org does
> not have a copy. Can anyone help me out with the modules.tgz for the
> Iyonix? I'm using the 2.4 (Debian 3 Woody) kernel bits. Specifically
> 2.4.27-iyonix kernel (which was the latest I could find).
What do you need modules for? It sounds like the fact that it's booting is
90% of the battle.
There are kernel sources here, BTW:
http://mirror.slackbuilds.org/slackwarearm/armedslack-11.0/source/k/sources/
- since it boots, you might be able to compile them up?
Also, it appears NetBSD still supports the Iyonix (although whether it
actually works is anyone's guess).
I would guess most of the Linux support is now mainlined (i80321 is in-tree,
I suspect the ALi M1543 southbridge is, and PCI cards are regular PCI).
With use of the TRM it might be possible to craft a DTS file to port regular
Linux 5.x to it. It seems like the only thing Iyonix-specific in the
patches is the RGB->BGR colour switch for the graphics card, which I don't
think is needed for newer cards.
Theo