Building 2.3.35?

Building 2.3.35?

[jlquinn]

I tried to build the standard 2.3.35 kernel without success.  Does anyone
know what's going on?

I'm building a kernel for powermac only and having problems with irq_offset
not being a member of
struct hw_interrupt_info(?).  In particular, arch/ppc/kernel/open_pic.c
doesn't build in this kernel.  The struct is defined in include/linux/irq.h
and doesn't have this field.  Also, to my uninformed eye, pmacs don't even
require open_pic.c

In 2.2.13, irq_offset is a member of struct hw_interrupt_info, which is
declared in arch/ppc/kernel/local_irq.h.  So obviously this struct was
deemed to be useful to other architectures but in the meantime, this field
was removed.

I've tried to untangle this enough to build, but haven't succeeded so far.

Thanks for any help,
Jerry Quinn
jlquinn@us.ibm.com


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Re: Building 2.3.35?

[Andreas Tobler]

jlquinn@us.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> I tried to build the standard 2.3.35 kernel without success.  Does anyone
> know what's going on?
> 
> I'm building a kernel for powermac only and having problems with irq_offset
> not being a member of
> struct hw_interrupt_info(?).  In particular, arch/ppc/kernel/open_pic.c
> doesn't build in this kernel.  The struct is defined in include/linux/irq.h
> and doesn't have this field.  Also, to my uninformed eye, pmacs don't even
> require open_pic.c
> 
> In 2.2.13, irq_offset is a member of struct hw_interrupt_info, which is
> declared in arch/ppc/kernel/local_irq.h.  So obviously this struct was
> deemed to be useful to other architectures but in the meantime, this field
> was removed.
> 
> I've tried to untangle this enough to build, but haven't succeeded so far.

The problem is known and Cort replied me yesterday that he is working on
that. He said maybe in the next one or two versions it should be fixed.
AFAIK the latest working 2.3.X kernel was the 2.3.29 from
linuxcare.com.au.
All other higher kernel I got to build but not to boot.

Have you other experiences?

Andreas
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Re: Building 2.3.35?

[jlquinn]

2.3.35 is the first unstable kernel that I've put some effort in getting to
build.  I only get to play with stuff for 2-3 hours a week, so it's hard to
really do debugging at the rate of kernel development :-)

How does merging of the vger tree into Linus' development kernel work right
now?
Jerry

jlquinn@us.ibm.com



Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch>@lists.linuxppc.org on 01/06/2000 10:38:49
AM

jlquinn@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> I tried to build the standard 2.3.35 kernel without success.  Does anyone
> [...]

The problem is known and Cort replied me yesterday that he is working on
that. He said maybe in the next one or two versions it should be fixed.
AFAIK the latest working 2.3.X kernel was the 2.3.29 from
linuxcare.com.au.
All other higher kernel I got to build but not to boot.

Have you other experiences?

Andreas
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Re: Building 2.3.35?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2000,  <jlquinn@us.ibm.com> wrote:


>2.3.35 is the first unstable kernel that I've put some effort in getting to
>build.  I only get to play with stuff for 2-3 hours a week, so it's hard to
>really do debugging at the rate of kernel development :-)
>
>How does merging of the vger tree into Linus' development kernel work right
>now?

The main ppc tree, for now, is not vger but Cort's bitkeeper. (I don't
know if Cort keeps vger updated).

2.2.x is fully in sync with Linus (except for the USB backport, but
that's normal).
2.3.x changes are, I think, sent to linus regulary, but there is still
some work needed to get the latest 2.3.35/36 kernels to work on powermac.
Hopefully Cort, Paul and I (and probably others are working on this).


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Re: Building 2.3.35?

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2000,  <jlquinn@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >2.3.35 is the first unstable kernel that I've put some effort in getting to
> >build.  I only get to play with stuff for 2-3 hours a week, so it's hard to
> >really do debugging at the rate of kernel development :-)
> >
> >How does merging of the vger tree into Linus' development kernel work right
> >now?
> 
> The main ppc tree, for now, is not vger but Cort's bitkeeper. (I don't
> know if Cort keeps vger updated).

Vger is no longer kept up-to-date, except through Linus (which isn't up-to-date
neither :-(

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
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Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds


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Re: Building 2.3.35?

[Larry McVoy]

I'm taking a more active role in keeping the PPC/linux/BK trees working.
Please bug me on a regular basis if you have problems.  

I'm in the middle of cloning the trees to bitkeeper.com and I'll be putting
bitkeeper.com on the net as a big fast machine that I'll let anyone into to
do work.

On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:17:25PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2000,  <jlquinn@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >2.3.35 is the first unstable kernel that I've put some effort in getting to
> > >build.  I only get to play with stuff for 2-3 hours a week, so it's hard to
> > >really do debugging at the rate of kernel development :-)
> > >
> > >How does merging of the vger tree into Linus' development kernel work right
> > >now?
> > 
> > The main ppc tree, for now, is not vger but Cort's bitkeeper. (I don't
> > know if Cort keeps vger updated).
> 
> Vger is no longer kept up-to-date, except through Linus (which isn't up-to-date
> neither :-(
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- geert@linux-m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> 							    -- Linus Torvalds
> 

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