Re: kernel-image-2.6.7

["Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:47:42AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > > I just uploaded some 2.6.7 kernel-images to
> > > http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/kernel-image/
> >
> > And I tried it on my Amiga 4000/040 (12 MB Fast RAM, Ariadne Ethernet).
> 
> > Then I tried to boot from hard disk (IDE), but it failed because it
> > didn't detect my hard disks.
> >
> > Perhaps the IDE doubler support is the problem? I'll enable it in my
> > 2.6.8.1 kernel and 'll see what happens...
> 
> Nope, my 2.6.8.1 works fine with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDOUBLER=y.
> 
> The behavior of the kernel is a bit like if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK is not
> set, but according to your .config it is.
> 
> IIRC, gcc 3.x used to ICE on ide-disk.c. Perhaps you disabled it
> afterwards?

cts@skeeve:~/debian/package/kernel-m68k/v2.6>grep ide-disk
kernel-image-2.6.7-m68k_2.6.7-1_i386.build 
  CC      drivers/ide/ide-disk.o
  CC      drivers/ide/ide-disk.o
  CC      drivers/ide/ide-disk.o
  CC      drivers/ide/ide-disk.o
  CC      drivers/ide/ide-disk.o
  CC      drivers/ide/ide-disk.o
  CC      drivers/ide/ide-disk.o

It is activated (built for 7 subarches), but maybe this is the problem:
cd kernel-source-2.6.7; /usr/src/kernel-patches/m68k/2.6.7/apply/apply
Applying patch kernel-source-2.6.7-m68k-cvs-20040806 ... FAILED.
Applying patch stramfix ................................ FAILED.

I wanted to try 2.6.8.1 now anyway...

Any idea why the kernel-image has to be uncompressed, anything I can do to
avoid that? Except moving more drivers to modules... does initrd work on
m68k? I haven't tried to build an initrd kernel myself yet, if it does not
work on m68k, there would be no need to try.

Christian