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Re: 2.3 problems

To: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 2.3 problems
From: Brian Hall <brianwhall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:28:29 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <XFMail.20000613172503.brianwhall@pcisys.net>
Organization: Compaq
Reply-to: Brian Hall <brianwhall@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Have you had a chance to take a look at this?

On 13-Jun-2000 Brian Hall wrote:
> Get the current IP from my webpage at http://pcisys.net/~brihall/as200
> 
> login via ssh to that IP
> 
> 
> On 13-Jun-2000 Matt D. Robinson wrote:
>> 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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