Re: 2.3.25 builds

Re: 2.3.25 builds

[Cort Dougan]

The next release should build for PPC.  There were some swap changes that
had to be cleaned up.  The Linus 2.3.x trees are now nearly up-to-date with
my tree so it shouldn't be released with ppc broken as often now.

} Hi all,
} sitting here and try to build a 2.3.25 for PPC. No success. The same
} with 2.3.23/24. 2.3.23 worked except I had horrible amounts of Ram (2GB
} iso 80MB). Was to late to figure out the 2.3.24 the 2.3.25 was already
} out. So I tried this one.
} In the beginning not much luck, got some steps further when applying the
} fbmem patch mentioned on this list the earlier the day. (ramdisk support
} was disabled from beginning).
} Later I struggled about pieces in memory.c; pte is not member of.... Ok,
} I found some hints, but as a newbie I saw that there are too many things
} included. Diff showed me too many things changed. So, Paul, Cort, are
} you already aware of?
} 
} Another major question I have, what is the 'deciding fact' for releasing
} a new dev kernel? Only one or two/three arch's working? I noticed that a
} few people had also problems building 2.3.25. ( Intel camp) Or, is it
} only the number count? (25 is better than 24?)
} Sorry, this is a bit cynic. But on the 2.2.x I see that there are up to
} at least xy pre's before a new Kernel is released.
} 
} This mail is NOT meant as a blame, but I don't know how to treat such
} quick changes on the kernel side. Do I have to wait for a working kernel
} x steps behind the offical kernel?
} Yeah, I know I don't have to, I should contribute .... If I can....
} As said, what is the aim of releasing kernels in such short time stamps?
} 
} Regards & thanks for Linux (I still prefer it to MacOS9)
} 
} Andreas

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Re: 2.3.25 builds

[Andreas Tobler]

Hi Cort and others,

right now I'm in the situation that 2.3.25 seems to compile and to boot
on a 7200. Booting is going on....
Ok up. 

I included the patches from Ani except the fbmem and all others which
refused to patch with: patch -p1 -F 3 -l --verbose <patch.file
The important for me were the pgtable.h and the fbmem.c. I use the
pmac_config as default conf with ramdisk support off. And only the
platinumfb, the scsi is Mac like & with Adaptec aic78xx. Which is my
used Disk-Controller.

Now it is up with the horrible message that I have 2GB of Mem..... (only
80MB are real) ((top report))
The fbmem.patch I took from  <kernel@kvack.org> as on the list (kernel)
this day. The latest at 14:19 EST

Thanks and sorry for the moody question the day before.

Finally I return for work to 2.2.14pre3 for daily work. Wallstreet
reports will follow as soon I can get some spare time not coding for Win :-(


Cort Dougan wrote:
> 
> The next release should build for PPC.  There were some swap changes that
> had to be cleaned up.  The Linus 2.3.x trees are now nearly up-to-date with
> my tree so it shouldn't be released with ppc broken as often now.
>


Andreas

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