Re: sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual
>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu> writes:
Steve> The sources in kernel-source-2.2.1 are kinda useless. To get
Steve> the kernel to compile from the "kpkg" package,
You mean 'to compile with the "kernel-package" stuff, ', right?
Steve> you have to run
Steve> something along the lines of "make-kpkg configure" (somehow
Steve> managing to get the patch to magically apply from the patch
Steve> package),
>From /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz:
patch_the_kernel This is an experts only variable. If set to YES (ENV
variable PATCH_THE_KERNEL overrides this), the build
process causes run-parts to be run over
/usr/src/kernel-patches/$(architecture)/apply
and (hopefully) reverses the process during clean by
running run-parts over
/usr/src/kernel-patches/$(architecture)/unpatch. This
is still evolving.
Steve> then run the generated debian/rules file manually
Steve> with "KERNEL_ARCH=sparc64" added to the end of the command
Steve> line. It isn't pretty. The kpkg rules file was such a tangled
Steve> mess that I just gave up and wrote my own - but it does
Steve> explicitely override the kernel Makefile's choice of
Steve> architecture.
Urgh. I find Manoj, the kernel-package maintainer, to be very
reasonable. Don't you think (for potato, of course) we could manage
to work out a way to deal with all this more elegantly?
>> Where can I get the sources or rather, I guess, the 2.2.1 patches
>> which you used to build the sparc64 linux kernel?
Steve> One final thing: you need "egcs64" installed to build sparc64
Steve> kernels.
Yeah, I already got that.
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