On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a short update on this bug if somebody has more time to work on > this. I will be only partly available until the begining of august. I > will be able to respond to mail, but most likely not be able to work on the > package. > > * The current version of mol in testing and unstable works with the > patches from SuSE. So no update to mol or the driver packages is > needed to fix the RC bug on mol-source. > > * The fix needed to be able to build mol kernel modules with the current > Debian kernel was rejected by the kernel team. They only accept > pachtes also accepted upstream and upstream does not like the patch.
Bug #460667 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460667 ) reopened. Bin > The longterm way forward is to integrate the mol modules into the > upstream kernel. > > * So the only short term option I see is to update mol-source based on > the SuSE patches and to advise user to build their own kernel with the > handl_mm_fault patch if they want to run mol. > > >> The SuSE patches can be found here: >> http://bb.zhang.free.fr/suse-mol-patch-for-2.6.25/ >> I used all pachtes except suse-ppc32-mol-handle-mm-fault plus the >> attached mol-mm.patch. >> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c >> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c >> index c6b1aa3..455fb38 100644 >> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c >> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c >> @@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_context); >> extern long mol_trampoline; >> EXPORT_SYMBOL(mol_trampoline); /* For MOL */ >> EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_hash_pages); /* For MOL */ >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(handle_mm_fault); /* For MOL */ >> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP >> extern int mmu_hash_lock; >> EXPORT_SYMBOL(mmu_hash_lock); /* For MOL */ > > > Gaudenz > > -- > Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. > Try again. Fail again. Fail better. > ~ Samuel Beckett ~ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
