From: "Hans-Jürgen Lange" <Hans-Juergen.Lange@gmx.de>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.x on IBM thin client 8363
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:13:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BE34BB.70309@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060105191819.594767e0.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:16:28 +0100 Hans-Jürgen Lange wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I would like to run a 2.6.x kernel on a IBM thin client 8363. There are
>>patches available for the 2.4 series of kernels.
>>I had a look on these patches and the only thing they do is to expand
>>the kernel commandline size to 512 Bytes and a change in
>>arch/i386/kernel/head.S that changed the pointer to the commandline to a
>>fixed address.
>
>
> Where are these 2.4 patches that you are referring to?
>
O.K. this is the very important one. Because without it the 8363 wont start.
--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/head.S.orig Mon Jul 16 16:13:11 2001
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/head.S Mon Jul 16 16:14:26 2001
@@ -158,7 +158,10 @@
movl $512,%ecx
rep
stosl
- movl SYMBOL_NAME(empty_zero_page)+NEW_CL_POINTER,%esi
+/* NetVista */
+/* movl SYMBOL_NAME(empty_zero_page)+NEW_CL_POINTER,%esi */
+ movl $0x98000, %esi
+
andl %esi,%esi
jnz 2f # New command line protocol
cmpw $(OLD_CL_MAGIC),OLD_CL_MAGIC_ADDR
>
>
> ---
> ~Randy
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-06 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-05 12:16 kernel 2.6.x on IBM thin client 8363 Hans-Jürgen Lange
2006-01-06 3:18 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-06 9:13 ` Hans-Jürgen Lange [this message]
2006-01-06 23:21 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-07 10:10 ` Hans-Jürgen Lange
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