Re: kbuild 2.5.26 - arch/alpha

["Martin Brulisauer" <martin@uceb.org>]

On 23 Jul 2002, at 11:05, George France wrote:
> that version for a while until it is stable.  In the past few months most of 
> the efforts have been spent on 2.4.9.  Currently there have been discussions 
> in regard to:
> 
> 1) porting all those patches for 2.4.9 forward to 2.4.[18-19] and 2.5.x.  

I am currently running 2.4.18 from SuSE without any (major) 
problems. I found it here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/sf/axp/7.1/RPMS/kernel-source-
2.4.18.SuSE-0.alpha.rpm.
Then I took arch/alpha/kernel/core_cia.c from version 2.4.12
(the current version does not run on XLT's booting with MILO;
the latest one is 2.4.12).

> 2) taking a look at the latest 2.5.x in the next few weeks, as we are aware 
> that 2.5.x does not compile on Alpha.

Hopefully I can fix core_cia.c to run on XLT's (it's hard to find any 
documentation on this toppic) and arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c for 
machines booting with linload.exe/MILO because the hwrpb
struct is built by MILO and does not match the one booting from
SRM (eg. empty percpu struct resulting in a cpucount of zero
in /proc/cpuinfo).

Regards,
Martin