On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 22:13, Matthew Yee-King wrote: > > I'm trying to compile a benh kernel with the low latency patch from > here: > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/schedlat.html > > I applied the patch, then added > > CONFIG_LOLAT=y > CONFIG_LOLAT_SYSCTL=y > > to my .config
BTW, you shouldn't edit .config manually. The easiest way to change certain options is to delete the lines and make oldconfig. > then ran > > fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image > > But this command seems to whack the .config file and remove my added > lines. make oldconfig does that because the patch doesn't contain the necessary ppc specific bits yet. Try this. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
--- ../linux-2.4.20-pre7-ben0/arch/ppc/config.in 2002-09-13 18:32:06.000000000 +0200 +++ arch/ppc/config.in 2002-10-01 01:10:10.000000000 +0200 @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ choice 'Processor Type' \ POWER4 CONFIG_POWER4 \ 8xx CONFIG_8xx" 6xx +bool 'Low latency scheduling' CONFIG_LOLAT +dep_bool 'Control low latency with sysctl' CONFIG_LOLAT_SYSCTL $CONFIG_LOLAT + if [ "$CONFIG_6xx" = "y" ]; then bool 'MPC8260 CPM Support' CONFIG_8260 fi