>That shouldn't be a problem, you can just download a pristine 2.4.32 >kernel and unpack in a directory of choice. Do a make menuconfig, >make dep and make modules. As long as you don't do a make install, it >won't mess up your running system. >After that just replace the module. No need for an uClibc environment.
OK, I tried, but insmod gives me a couple screens of unresolved references. Here's what I did: On my 2.4.31 system, root ran make clean. Then as unpriveleged paul copied /usr/src/linux/* to a directory of my own, make mrproper, patched with 2.4.32, ran make menuconfig & make dep bzImage modules. Then I copied drivers/scsi/aic7xx/aic7xxx.o to the floppy. It was smaller. But there are a lot of other object files there too, e.g. aic7xxx_core.o, etc. Find didn't show me an aic7xxx.o object file elsewhere. I don't now what these other files are about, but the name aic7xxx_core.o is suggestive. It's too big to get on the boot floppy with everything else. That led me to question whether the kernel EISA support was enabled, since you _did_ say, "But EISA and VL are obsoleted for at least 10 years....." So I tried to find the config file you said was on the CVS. You probably read about that already. A long time later I found a link buried in one of the development doc files that took me to CVS files for 2.4.24, and there seemed to be something for 2.4.26, but nothing for 2.4.32. I even tried coming in from Sourceforge, and it was easier to get to the CVS that route, but it eventually led me to apparently the same places. With no other clues I went back to the kernel files and read drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/README.aic7xxx. It said I could insmod with "options aic7xxx aic7xxx=probe_eisa_vl" to toggle the switch if it wasn't compiled on. I've tried that and got the same "no such device" error. Paul Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ http://www.geocities.com/paulgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
