Re: Building RH kernel + patches

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:37 7-6-2001 -0400, Alan Eldridge wrote:
> I'd like to rebuild RH's current rawhide kernel SRPM, but with the 2.4.5 XFS
> patches applied ... I'm getting sick of __alloc_pages() failed, and "Out of
> memory: Killing process nnnn".
>
> However, it appears that the XFS patch includes *some* of the RH patches.
> Is there any clear way to determine which RH patches I want to keep, and
> which are already applied, *and* where in the sequence I want to apply the
> XFS patch?
>
> I'm starting to look through the patches manually, but that's going to
> really suck. Please tell me there's a better way.

Good question, I believe Russel Catalan originally did the 2.4.2-XFS kernel 
that came on the 1.0 installer disk. I think he would be the one to ask.
There were over 200 patches in the 2.4.2 RH 7.1 kernel so I have no idea 
were to begin.

The 2.4.5 is a vanilla tree with xfs and things like kdb added. There might 
a few things duplicate.
I can imagine that RH included some of the other SGI patches like High 
availabilty.
Just guessing here.

My best guess would be to start with a 2.4.5 xfs tree and start applying 
the more harmless patches like added drivers or obvious fixes and see what 
you end up with.

Good luck

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.