"kerler" <kerler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The SPECS/kernel-2.4.spec does not include ppc support after
> kernel24-2.4.0-XFS_BETA_4.src.rpm is installed using rpm.
> how can i use xfs on ppc? and can xfs-cmds-1.0.5-1.src.rpm be used on ppc?
if you are willing to experiment a bit XFS is useable on ppc quite
good ... the best is to checkout the XFS from SGI and compile a kernel
by hand and try to boot it - it should work on some machines out of
the box (imac etc.) and will most probably not work on others (g4
etc.) - for those there are some ppc related changes missing in the
current linux tree (the normal -testxy tree has the same problem)
... what i did here is mix the pmac-devel and the SGI XFS tree which
resulted in a working XFS kernel on a g4 - so let me know if you
have a machine on which the stock kernel does not work - then i can
send you a diff
also the xfs-cmds-1.0.5-1.src.rpm builds just fine on ppc for me
(SuSE 7.0/ppc) with one little thing: i had to add the definition
of O_DIRECT from include/asm-i386/fcntl.h to /usr/include/bits/fcntl.h
top get it compiled cleanly
some more information about the status of XFS on ppc you may find at
http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/xfs/ppc/
good luck
t
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