Re: MOL Status
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:41:17AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:43:46PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:10:14AM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:58:22PM +0100, Jack Malmostoso wrote:
> > > > Hello there list,
> > > >
> > > > I just wanted to report that mol-0.9.71pre8 works beautifully and loads
> > > > Tiger just fine.
> > > > You can download the sources here:
> > > >
> > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/mol-0.9.71_pre8.tar.bz2
> > >
> > > I'm currently working on update the mol package in Debian. I could need
> > > some comaintainers though, because Otavio who originally started the
> > > pkg-mol effort no longer owns any Powerpc machine.
> >
> > Thanks for working on this. What help do you need ? Something specific i could
> > do, or long run help ?
>
> You could have a look at #353461. The absence of highmem.h in
> asm-powerpc also affects mol modules builds. Just copying highmem.h from
> asm-ppc to asm-powerpc solves the problem. but I don't know if this is
> the right aproach. asm/highmem.h is not directly included from the mol
> modules, but other kernel include files include it.
I had investigated this, and am not fully sure what the real solution is for
it though. I don't really know what the linux/powerpc guys are thinking about
it.
Also, since for 2.6.16, we move to ARCH=powerpc, there are other issues at
hand in the out-of-tree module packaging, but given the current issue, i am
having some doubt about my future involvement, so you better post on
debian-kernel about this, and ask Bastian Blank on help.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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