Re: Power Mac 6100/66

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

Op 13-sep-05 om 18:09 heeft Sven Luther het volgende geschreven:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:42:55PM +0200, Ernest Demaret wrote:
> > > 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... 
>
> Yeah, i know, but i managed to get that one going, and if i remember well, the
> 2.4.27 patch applied fine on the debian kernel-source.
>
> > I've tried to find an already nubus-patched kernel tree but that 
> > doesn't seem to excist. 
>
> wrong :)
>
> kernel-source-2.4.27 and kernel-patch-2.4.27-nubus should do the trick.

I tried that but couldn't get the kernel properly patched.
What can cause the kernel to be patched on one machine and not on the other?

> > 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). 
>
> No idea, but i doubt it is meaningfull to go hunting after a the history of a
> given binary kernel, it is more constructive to start from the existing source
> code in the debian kernel. Did you try the sarge -nubus kernel at all ? 

As far as I know the 2.4.27 kernel is the highest version for a 8100/110.
I haven't tried that, but if you think it might work I'll give it a try.

Regards,

Ernest Demaret