On Wed, 23 May 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2001 at 09:58, Juha Saarinen wrote:
>
> > Gather 2.4.4 has some fixes for Via Crapollo... how would I go about
> > downloading 2.4.4 XFS?
>
> Two ways you can go about it. First you download the vanilla 2.4.4 (or the
> patch to bump up your kernel tree to 2.4.4 from 2.4.2), then grab the
> latest XFS CVS patch:
>
> <ftp://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/linux-2.4.4-xfs-cvs-05152001.patch.gz>
>
> To patch your kernel I've found a number of ways, but I personally use
> this one:
>
> o Create a directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.4/
> o Extract your 2.4.4 kernel into /usr/src/linux-2.4.4/linux/
> o While in /usr/src/ do a
> cat linux-2.4.4-xfs-cvs-05152001.patch.gz | gunzip | patch -p0
> o ln -s linux-2.4.4/linux/ linux
>
> Alternatively, you can get the entire development tree via CVS or CVSup.
> This should give you the Linux kernel 2.4.4 with the required XFS stuff
> updated to the last check-in by the developers. The benefit of this is
> that you get the latest fixes and performance updates checked in. The
> latest patch downloadable by the first method I gave was a snapshot done
> on 15 May 2001.
Thanks Federico. I'd like to do the CVS thing, but the tree looks very
big, so I'll need to think about it.
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Regards,
Juha
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