Re: Power Mac 6100/66

[Ernest Demaret <ernest.demaret@infinity-box.nl>]

Op 13-sep-05 om 17:15 heeft Sven Luther het volgende geschreven:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:39:33PM +0200, Ernest Demaret wrote:
> > > You know, that would probably be a violation of the kernel GPL you 
> > > offering 
> > > the kernel without the sources and config file for it :) 
> > >
> > > Seriously, if we will add official debian support for the nubus 
> > > machines, we 
> > > need to be able to build such a kernel from the debian package. 
> > > Right now i 
> > > have a (rather old) patch to 2.4.27 from the nubus project, and a 
> > > configuration file which was suggested to me by someone from the 
> > > nubus 
> > > project. 
> > >
> > > Please try it out, and if it fails, we can fix it or something, but 
> > > some 
> > > random binary kernel from some random place is hardly going to be 
> > > usefull in 
> > > the long run. 
> >
> > It was never my intention to violate the kernel GPL but I can't provide 
>
> I was just joking, i know perfectly well how you got the kernel and what that
> situation is :)
>
> > sources nor the config because I've never seen them either and just 
> > wanted to help somebody out... I have been trying to compile my own 
> > nubus-patched kernel (with the same sources mentioned) but never 
> > succeeded :-( I wanted to add MD support which was not compiled in the 
> > kernel I use. If you can tell me where I can find the name of the 
> > developer we'll both be happy. 
>
> Try :
>
> apt-get source kernel-patch-powerpc-2.4.27
>
> And look a bit into it. What would be of interest to you is the config/nubus
> file or something such. You can disable the builds of the non-nubus configs in
> debian/flavours.
>
> the patch is taken from the nubus project, at sourceforge i think.
>
> If you go working on that one, it would be great if you where to try it out
> with the official kernel, so that futur debian/nubus users could profit from
> it too.
>
> I think the developer was Joel (?) Knight or someone such, and both the patch
> and the config file are from him, so it is well possible that it will work. He
> posted here at the start of the year or something.

That's something I already tried... I tried different patches (from different sources) but nothing seems to work.
My problem is that I can't get the kernel tree to be patched without lots of errors so a compile from that invalid patched tree won't give me a working kernel...
I've tried to find an already nubus-patched kernel tree but that doesn't seem to excist.
Is it possible to identify the developer of a kernel? He might be able to provide the tree from which my kernel is made of (which is stable as far as I've experienced).

Regards,

Ernest Demaret