Re: [shorty: Re: 2.6.12 debian powerpc kernels and ppc64 ...]

Sven Luther
2005-07-24T11:11:49Z

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:39:05PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> The first try to send the message below didn't work. Hoping it does
> now ... :)
>
> Regards
> Wolfgang
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Wolfgang Pfeiifer -----
>
> To: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
> Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org,
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: 2.6.12 debian powerpc kernels and ppc64 ...
> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:17:37 +0200
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> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:23:05AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 07:52:30PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > Hi Sven
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:04:17PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I would like testers who want to test new powerpc kernels on ppc64 machines :
> > > >
> > > > These i have uploaded here :
> > > >
> > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64/kernel-image-2.6.12-sven_1_powerpc.deb
> > >
> > > At least the latter one works here. Or at least it boots here without any probs,
> > > as it seems .. :
> > >
> > > $ uname -a
> > > Linux debby 2.6.12-sven #1 Fri Jul 15 13:44:26 UTC 2005 ppc GNU/Linux
> > >
> > > $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > > processor : 0
> > > cpu : 7455, altivec supported
> > > clock : 867MHz
> > > revision : 0.2 (pvr 8001 0302)
> > > bogomips : 865.18
> > > machine : PowerBook3,5
> > > motherboard : PowerBook3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
> > > detected as : 80 (PowerBook Titanium IV)
> > > pmac flags : 0000001b
> > > L2 cache : 256K unified
> > > memory : 768MB
> > > pmac-generation : NewWorld
> >
> > As was expectet, the 64bit is the one i am not sure about.
> >
> > > But how come this kernel still does not have the necessary patches
> > > applied to run kismet:
> >
> > Please provide a bug report with this info,
>
> No. Please see:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/27/303
>
> As you can see I sent them a bug report once. It won't happen again in
> the foreseeable future.

Send a bug report to the debian kernel package i meant, not upstream, altough
ther policy is to follow upstream on this, there may be exceptions.

The debian kernel maintainer is a team, not just me, and sending personal mail
and nort an archived bug report, is bound to get lost in my (huge) inbox,
especially now that i am mostly offline 2 weeks.

> that page nobody seemed to be interested in the problem. IIRC I could
> not compile for weeks or perhaps even months a new 2.4 kernel version
> because of the mentioned errors.

2.4 is dead on desktop powerpc for over a year and a half now, so ...

> > i will apply as soon as i am back
> > in 2 weeks, if someone from the kernel team doesn't beat me to it.
>
> The site for the patch I used, IIRC:
> <http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml#orinoco2611>
>
> wget http://www.kismetwireless.net/code/orinoco-2.6.12-rfmon-dragorn-1.diff
>
> The md5sum for the latter that I have here is
> 41fb7cec09f4de93cd2432eb1aceba92
>
> So if yours will be different you can let me know.

Nice , but please apply this info to a debian bug report (reportbug kernel on
a running debian system).

>
> And I applied the patch to 2.6.12. Or better: I probably patched a
> 2.6.11 (tarball) source with patch-2.6.12.bz2, and then applied the
> above orinoco patch. (Uncertainty because it's already a few weeks ago
> I compiled this kernel ... )
>
> And just in case it might help someone else:
> The following snippet might serve as an example of how to compile this
> more or less wifi ready patched source [Please check for yourself in
> case I made any mistakes ... :) ... ]:
>
> ------------------------
> tar xzvf linux-2.6.11.tar.gz
> cd linux-2.6.11/
> bzip2 -cd /path/to/patch-2.6.12.bz2 | patch -p1
>
> [then applying the orinoco patch from above]
>
> cp /boot/someconfig .
> make oldconfig
> fakeroot make-kpkg clean
>
> time MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-4.0" fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=-somename --revision +anothername kernel_image
>
> or
>
> time MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-4.0" fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=+orinoco-patched --revision +050703 kernel_image
> ------------------------
>
> HTH
>
> Thanks for responding, Sven ... and yes: for your work, too :)
>
> And sorry for refusing to play nice if things run ugly ..

Well, just provide a debian bug report so we can continue having this
conversation the right way.

TW, is this a different patch than the one Jens had applied back them in the
2.6.4 debian powerpc kenrel days ? And which was removed for bugginess or
something ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther