Re: kernel-image-2.6.7
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> 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
OK
> 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.
Which files failed to patch? But I don't think there's anything in Linux/m68k
CVS vs. mainline that could cause this...
> I wanted to try 2.6.8.1 now anyway...
Good ;-)
> 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
No idea yet. I'll see whether I can find out...
> 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.
Yes, as I reported, I could boot your kernel with the good old ramdisk, so
initrd should work.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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