m3mirror and 2.4.24-ben1 [Was: Compilation instructions for m3mirror]

[Toby Johnson <toby.johnson@ed.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:23:24PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> Toby Johnson <toby.johnson@ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > The [m3mirror] binary from penguinppc.org/~benh seems to have 
> > stopped working
> > some time after the 2.4.20 kernel and before the 2.4.24 kernel.
...
> 
> This won't help. It's a kernel change that broke m3mirror.
> 
> You have 2 solutions :
>  - use Owen Stampflee's patch at
>    <http://www.stampflee.com/kernel/>
>  - replace arch/ppc/kernel/prom_init.c with the same file from the
>    2.4.20 kernel.

Thanks very much.  In case anyone else has this problem, it seems I
had to do both of these to get m3mirror to work (which it does now).
At least, the stampflee patch on its own didn't solve the problem.

Toby.

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