A new benh kernel

[danny]

Finally I got round to making a new benh kernel. For people with club 
access, it is here (announcement also below):
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Splatt_Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=9957&forum=5

But I also would like to make a cooker version, since I have currently no
ppc-cooker install on my ibook, someone is invited to rebuild
it:) I do forsee some troubles since I latest gcc can have issues with
some stuff. If so, please report (if you cannot fix) and I will see if I
can fix it.

I hope for some feedback on people with more experience with PPC machines 
than I have. I have tried to keep config options close to old benh kernel.

Stew, some patches of the old benh kernel i did not put in the patches 
tarball (like mainkernel), but still in the SPEC. I'm not really sure 
about whether to remove them or not, it is not always clear to me why they 
were applied.

Oh..and if people like laptopmode I vote for adding a check for it to 
pmud, so it can be started automatically.

 d.


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Latest benh is really nice 2.4.21 with things like the sleep-indicator 
showing disk activity, laptop-mode patch, hfsplus read and write support, 
firewire update and a lot of bugfixes.
 
 In addition, I added to following stuff:
 - latest xfs from cooker (carefully try, not extensively tested)
 - supermount-ng 1.2.8
 - ALSA 0.9.2 (will update to 0.9.6 or later in next release)
 - kernel drm drivers to get DRI working (from Michel Danzer) on Radeon 
cards
 - mandrake logo
 - various small bugfixes/tweaks
 - also build a kernel-source rpm now
 
 the smp kernel also has support for systems with more than 1 GB memory.
 if you want to use the laptop-mode support, use this script: 
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/laptop-mode.sh
 You can set the machine automatically in this mode if you modify 
/etc/power/pwrctl to execute this script on going to battery power, and 
stop it again when going back to AC again.
 
 note that if you got a radeon > 7500, you may want to boot with 
video=radeonfb
 
 Please report problems with a good bugreport, if it crashes, xmon is 
enabled, so try to get me a backtrace.
 
 CAVEATS:
 the installkernel script sucks. This will cause a problem if you want to 
install both the smp and normal kernel: for whatever you install last, a 
yaboot.conf entry is not created. You have to create it manually. I will 
see if I can hack around this issue in a next release.
 
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Re: Ethernet Card Recognition under PPC 8.2 on OldWorld G3

[Alex Thurgood]

Le ven 25/07/2003 à 13:43, Stew Benedict a écrit :


> You shouldn't have had to unstuff anything.  The only thing I stuffed in 
> MacOS is the "Mandrake Linux Install.Sit".  Everything else was created 
> under Linux and should be ready to use.
> 

Ah. OK, then I unstuffed the img file for nothing and shall replace it
an untouched copy.

> I'm not sure how you have your particular machine setup, but normally 
> there is a linux kernels folder under BootX, and that's where I put 
> kernels and initrds.  Sounds like your BootX is looking at a different 
> folder than the one you're placing the items in.
> 

Yes, well that's where I put them. I'll try rummaging around with the
Finder and see if there isn't another BootX directory somewhere.

> I found an 8.2 repository.  Looks like I mislead you a little on where to 
> find the items:
> 
> ncftp /Mandrake-old/8.2/ppc > pwd
>   ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-old/8.2/ppc/
> ncftp /Mandrake-old/8.2/ppc > ls misc/BootX-kernels/
> initrd-2.2.19-14mdk.img   vmlinuz-2.2.19-14mdk
> initrd-2.4.4-6.2mdk.img   vmlinuz-2.4.4-6.2mdk
> 
> You should have misc/BootX-kernels on your CD also.
> 

Thanks for the info.

> > I'll have to wait until next week now to try again - it's a good job
> > that this is the first machine I'm trying this on, since it's also the
> > oldest. THe others are more recent, so with any luck the installation
> > process should be a bit easier.
> > 
> 
> Old World machines are the worst.  The whole "boot linux from MacOS" 
> concept seems to really throw a lot of people.  Especially if they are new 
> to linux, and now all of a sudden they need to deal with kernels, initrds, 
> kernel arguments etc.


Well, I've managed to recompile my kernel on my x86 box, update, modify
lilo and all that other stuff that clickophiles donn't really want to do
(am I still a newbie if I'm doing that ;-p), but the BootX scenario on
the Mac platform really does have me thrown because I have difficulty
comprehending how a Mac boots in the first place. Once I finally figure
out what exactly is going on (BootX seems to shut down the Mac and then
reboot), I might understand a bit more and find it easier going.


Alex
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