G4 configuration

G4 configuration

[Ryan Boder]

Does anyone have a .config to configure a kernel that is stable on the
G4 sawtooth? I have the current stable source but every kernel I compile
freezes and corrupts my root file system. If anyone has one will you
please mail it to me?

Ryan

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Re: G4 configuration

[Nelson Abramson]

Ryan Boder wrote:

> Does anyone have a .config to configure a kernel that is stable on the
> G4 sawtooth? I have the current stable source but every kernel I compile
> freezes and corrupts my root file system. If anyone has one will you
> please mail it to me?

The .config that comes with Paul's tree (via rsync) should compile and run
your sawtooth just fine.  It worked for me...

If you are using that one and still having problems, you may want to do
some more investigation.

HTH
--Nelson Abramson

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Re: G4 configuration

[Ryan Boder]

Nelson Abramson wrote:
>
> Ryan Boder wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have a .config to configure a kernel that is stable on the
> > G4 sawtooth? I have the current stable source but every kernel I compile
> > freezes and corrupts my root file system. If anyone has one will you
> > please mail it to me?
>
> The .config that comes with Paul's tree (via rsync) should compile and run
> your sawtooth just fine.  It worked for me...
>
> If you are using that one and still having problems, you may want to do
> some more investigation.
>
> HTH
> --Nelson Abramson
>


I have tried the regular defconfig that comes with tree. With that one
it said kernel stack overflow when I was booting. Then I tried the
pmac_defconfig and it said that the pc had reached memory out of bounds.
Finally I took the defconfig from ben H's 2.2.15pre3 kernel and went
through the whole make config process using ben's config as a guide. The
kernel I got out of this booted successfully but as soon as I logged in
it said kernel stack overflow and froze up. I know that Ben's
configuartion works because I am using his kernel right now. So I am at
a loss as to why I can't compile a kernel that works. I just rsynced the
source right before I tried these so it is about as new as possible.

If anyone has figured this out before or has any ideas what's causing
the stack overflow let me know. Thanks.
-Ryan


> --
> "Apparently if you play the Windows NT CD backwards you hear satanic messages"
> "You think that's bad, if you play it forwards it installs Windows NT!"
> --orlando

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Re: G4 configuration

[Holger Bettag]

Nelson Abramson <pogtal@erols.com> writes:

>
> Ryan Boder wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have a .config to configure a kernel that is stable on the
> > G4 sawtooth? I have the current stable source but every kernel I compile
> > freezes and corrupts my root file system. If anyone has one will you
> > please mail it to me?
>
> The .config that comes with Paul's tree (via rsync) should compile and run
> your sawtooth just fine.  It worked for me...
>
I have similar troubles to find a config that even only compiles. I got the
latest (well, a few days ago) 2.3 Kernel sources via bitkeeper. There seems
to be no default config file there.

During 'make xconfig', most of the options are sensibly set. My only changes
were to drop a bit of unneeded functionality, like certain exotic file
systems, or support for hardware that is not present in my sawtooth G4.
Afterwards, 'make dep' doesn't complain, but make zImage eventually fails
for the file "ide-dma.c", with the compiler complaining that the structure
"hwif" has no member "pci_dev". Apparently, part of the configuration thinks
that IDE doesn't sit on PCI, but the driver relies on the presence of a
PCI device.

In older kernels, there used to be a config option "Generic PC IDE support"
or somesuch, which was actually the core of all IDE functionality. This
option didn't exist in the 2.3 tree, so I cannot accidentally have turned off
basic IDE support (as is possible with 2.2, and is the favourite beginner's
error on non-PC systems).

So if anyone has a working config for a sawtooth G4, I'd be happy if I could
obtain a copy.

  Holger

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Re: G4 configuration

[David A. Gatwood]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Ryan Boder wrote:

> Does anyone have a .config to configure a kernel that is stable on the
> G4 sawtooth? I have the current stable source but every kernel I compile
> freezes and corrupts my root file system. If anyone has one will you
> please mail it to me?

2.3 or 2.2?  The 2.2.15pre3 that Ben H. built (any recent iBook kernel) is
rock solid. I have no advice on 2.3....


David

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