I can login and check it out. It should build, but there may
be problems with the sysctl stuff (it didn't fail for me, but ...)
Can you send me the login method again, Brian?
--Matt
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Brian Hall wrote:
|>Well, I copied the 2.3 tree over top of my 2.3.99pre9 tree, and I'm having
|>problems building. I manually added the config_vm_dump menuconfig for Alpha in
|>config.in, but turned it off for now. I am having trouble with sysctl.c and
.h-
|>it looks to me like somehow the 2.2 kernel versions of sysctl.* are in the 2.3
|>LKCD CVS tree (depends on lists.h vice list.h) ?
|>
|>I've been trying to fix this as each compiler warning comes up, but one of you
|>might want to check this. Something is not right here. Has anyone verified
that
|>the CVS 2.3 tree will build properly when copied over 2.3.99pre9 lately?
|>
|>
|>On 09-Jun-2000 Tom Morano wrote:
|>> Brian Hall wrote:
|>>>
|>>> Had a teleconference with Compaq's Linux Program Office today. One of the
|>>> things to come out of that was the desire to move forward to the 2.4 kernel
|>>> (possibly back porting the Alpha LKCD support to 2.2 if needed), also move
|>>> this
|>>> direction since there are some corporate politics involved now. Even though
|>>> there have been Compaq contributions to Linux before, this situation is
|>>> different so I am a "test case". Boils down to I expect it to be awhile
|>>> before I
|>>> get "permission" to put my work onto Sourceforge (i.e. merge it with your
|>>> tree). I am not at all happy about this, I was under the impression it
would
|>>> be
|>>> much more straightforward. At least everyone here is clear that this is
|>>> GPLed, and the source must be released at least by the time Compaq ships
|>>> product.
|>>>
|>>> Anyway, Tom, is your ia64 work in the 2.3 tree in CVS? Which development
|>>> kernel
|>>> are you using for that (2.3.x, 2.4.0pre, etc.). Hopefully that same kernel
|>>> rev
|>>> will boot on my Alpha... first thing to check, there. To apply LKCD from
CVS
|>>> to
|>>> a fresh kernel, I can just copy the /2.3 files over my kernel directory?
|>>>
|>>
|>> Hi Brian,
|>>
|>> The ia64 work I've been doing has been checked into the 2.3 LKCD tree on
|>> SourceForge
|>> (which is CVS controlled). As for development kernel, it depends upon if you
|>> are
|>> talking about the kernel portion of LKCD or LCRASH. With the kernel part,
|>> much
|>> of what Matt has done has been checked in. He's been using 2.3.99-pre9 as a
|>> base.
|>> With LCRASH, it's a lot more flexible (It runs on both 2.3.50 and
|>> 2.3.99-pre9).
|>> And
|>> yes, you can just copy the /2.3 files over a kernel source tree. The 2.3
|>> directory
|>> is relative to /usr/src/linux.
|>>
|>> Tom
|>
|>--
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