On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:57:38PM -0800, Grant Miller wrote: > > > In case people are interested in getting a 2.4 kernel to compile *and* work > on their powerbook, here's a quick howto on how I did it. > > > (info from http://www.linuxppc.org/software/kernel) > > > $ mkdir linux-pmac-stable > $ cd linux-pmac-stable > $ rsync -avz --delete ppc.linuxcare.com::linux-pmac-devel . penguinppc.org also carries up to date trees. > > I tried the standard 2.4.2-pre stuff from kernel.org, but it had some > problems compiling. Rsync'ing from ppc.linuxcare.com or > bitkeeper.fsmlabs.com should give you a good tree. > > Move this directory to /usr/src/linux and go for it! you don't need to move the source to /usr/src/linux it can be anywhere. /usr/local/src is really a better place. > I was able to get 2.4.2-pre3 to compile and go on my Powerbook. I ran > into problems with ReiserFS and Devfs, so I turned those off. Though it > would be pretty cool to have ext3 or ReiserFS on a laptop... reiserfs is totally broken on big endian archetectures, which means no reiserfs for powerpc or sparc. (it also used to be 64 bit dirty which ruled out alpha, that might be fixed though.) see penguinppc.org for jeffm's work on rewriting reiserfs to be portable. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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