From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:09:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] applying patch Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hi Hiren, The patches go on top of the corresponding tree from Linus. For example, linux-2.4.0-test12-ia64-001214.diff.bz2 goes on top of Linus's linux-2.4.0-test12 tree. On a related note: for those using the test12 tree, be sure to make the following change after applying the IA-64 patch. Without this change, bad crashes can occur on systems with <2GB of RAM (it can happen on systems with >=2GB of RAM too, but it's much less likely to occur): Change line 330 in arch/ia64/lib/swiotlb.c from: set_bit(PG_arch_1, &virt_to_page(pg_addr)); to struct page *page = virt_to_page(pg_addr); set_bit(PG_arch_1, &page->flags); Hope this helps, --david >>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:30:28 -0700, hiren_mehta@agilent.com said: Hiren> Hi All, I looked at the Hiren> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ports/ia64/ Hiren> directory. The directory has only one big .tar.gz file with Hiren> kernel sources and the rest of the files are patches. After I Hiren> looked at the directory, I got totally confused as there are Hiren> readme files which can tell me how to use the patches and Hiren> what should be the base kernel to apply the patch. Is it Hiren> that, the big tar.gz file should be the base kernel and then Hiren> I need to apply all the patches appearing in the directory or Hiren> that I need to apply only a specific patch ? Hiren> If there is any readmes or any other information regarding Hiren> the patches please send me the URL so that I can go through Hiren> that. Hiren> Thanks and regards, -hiren Hiren> _______________________________________________ Linux-IA64 Hiren> mailing list Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org Hiren> http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64