Re: Patched 1.2Pre5 kernel

[Simon Matter <simon.matter@ch.sauter-bc.com>]

Seth Mos schrieb:
> 
> This kernel is brought to you by Seth' Remarkebly Unreliable Kernel service.
> 
> This kernel is based on the Red Hat 2.4.18-19.8.0 kernel with the XFS patch
> from 1.2Pre5 patched into it.

Seth, that's cool!

> 
> This means that people using broadcom gigabit cards (bcm5700 ot tg3 module)
> who see a lot of crashes or mysterious hangs might find this interesting.
> 
> The i686 build fails at the moment but so you will have to do with the
> kernel-source rpm instead. The i686 build will follow later.

Well, I had the same problem when I created such kernel rpms in the past
(on RedHat 7.2). I finally was able to compile all of them like this:

In the .spec, I changed this:
%define buildUML 0

Then, it's important to call the build processs for every architecture
at once, like this:
rpm -ba --target "i386,i586,i686,athlon" kernel....src.rpm
or, maybe it was rpm -ba --target=i386,i586,i686,athlon
depending on RPM version.

I'll try it but I don't have a fast box to compile.

Simon

> 
> Disclaimer:
> The kernel compiles, boots and so far survived 60 simultaneous Bonnie
> processes on a software raid 5 volume.
> That means that it might not eat your disk after all :-)
> 
> Still not scared? Go here
> http://iserv.nl/files/xfs/
> 
> Have a nice day,
> --
> Seth
> It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.