On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:37:06PM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
>Recently, Russell Cattelan (I think) announced that he had built some
>kernel RPMs for the Red Hat Rawhide kernels as well. Search the mailing
>archives for details
They are on oss.sgi.com as well, in the testing/RHrawhide subdir of the
project. I've been using the i686 RPM for 3 days now, on a system with
moderate disk activity (lots of compilation), and until this morning, had
not problems whatsoever.
The system locked up last night while I was asleep, and, being in the
screensaver, there were no clues as to the cause of the lockup. Nothing was
logged to the log files. Reboot went uneventfully, xfs_repair did its thing
quickly and transparently, and system was back up.
I have no evidence to suggest that the lockup was or was not XFS related.
For all I know, the problem could be related to Glide libs or tdfx kernel
module, as I have a Voodoo 5500AGP and there have been documented problems
with Glide-related lockups on this video adapter.
Russell did a great job. I know it was a lot of work for him, since SGI
tracks the "Linus" kernel and RedHat tracks the "AC" kernel, and they have
diverged significantly recently (enough to make the job of patch merging a
long and trying one, it would seem).
I am currently working on a skeleton spec file that can be used to build a
set of RPMS from a stock "Linus" kernel plus the appropriate SGI patch
file(s). Basically, a "roll-your-own-rpm" kit.
I'll try to provide something much (cruder and) simpler for people wanting
to build RPMS but not caring if they have all the RH bits. I don't have an
ETA yet, as I believe there are some AIC7XXX issues I'm going to encounter,
if memory serves me right.
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Alan Eldridge
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