Re: Miata and kernel compiles
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Andreas U. Trottmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 08:14:59AM -0400, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
>
> > I've been having considerable trouble compiling a new kernel for my Miata
> > system. First of all, is there some way to use make-kpkg to make kernels?
>
> The latest version is reported to have experimental support for alpha.
> Never tried it though.
>
> > The kernels that I compile myself always seem to lock up the machine at
> > some point in the boot cycle. Any hints?
>
> Use Linus' 2.0.34 and Jay's patches from
> ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/kernels. Alternatively,
> Linus' 2.1.108 also "worked for me", but I didn't test it extensively.
> Note that the framebuffer stuff doesn't work on Alpha yet, not even with
> Geert's or Alan's patches.
Excellent! Things are all happy now. I just used a precompiled kernel
and milo from gatekeeper. I tried compiling it myself at first, but it
barfed. I'm not concerned at the moment since the precompiled kernel has
everything.
> Also make sure you are using the latest MILO (also from gatekeeper, in the
> same directory as the kernel patches).
>
>
> If this doesn't help, we need error messages and hardware configurations
> :)
>
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> Andreas Trottmann <andreas.trottmann@werft22.com>
>
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