Ah must be d'only one experiencin' dis here problem, it seems.
On bootup, I get
...
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M
more enable_irq(6)'s than disable_irq(6)'s!!
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : at PCI bus 0, device 8, function 0
scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : NCR53c810 at memory 0xe4000000, io 0x6100, irq 15
<hang>
Checking the diff I discovered that the ~/arch/i386/irq.c has been
somewhat modified and found myself quite out of depth.
Something else. When including SoftOSS, the kernel build flunks with
"devc" being unreferencable [this word should be included in the next
edition of the Oxford, Websters and similar publications] due to a
(somewhat overzealous ?) statification [ditto] of said structure (I
think).
--- linux/drivers/sound/softoss.c.old Sun Jan 4 20:40:16 1998
+++ linux/drivers/sound/softoss.c Thu Jan 22 14:52:19 1998
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
static struct softsyn_devc sdev_info =
{0};
-static softsyn_devc *devc = &sdev_info;
+softsyn_devc *devc = &sdev_info;
static struct voice_alloc_info *voice_alloc;
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