compiling kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-30 Thread Alex Cavnar
Greetings, I am attempting to compile kernel 2.4.16 for my SPARC Machine. I am mainly interested in ext3 support for my machine for faster crash recovery times. When I make vmlinux, I get the error : Wrong use of 'disable_irq' in '.text.exit' section. It can only be used in .text, .text.init

Problem compiling kernel 2.4.16 with woody

2001-12-20 Thread jochen005
Hello, I have debian woody running on a Sun netra t1 with stock kernel 2.4.16. After keeping the system updated the kernel fails to compile with the following error: [..] ld -m elf64_sparc -T arch/sparc64/vmlinux.lds arch/sparc64/kernel/head.o arch/sparc64/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init

Re: Problem compiling kernel 2.4.16 with woody

2001-12-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hi Jochen, ... drivers/net/net.o(.data+0x138): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 ... After downgrading binutils to 2.11.92.0.10-4, compilation was fine again. Is there a

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: What happens when you try the user level nfs server? The nfs-user-server always worked like a charm and does now as well. But I really thought it would be depreciated and wanted to try nfs-kernel-server over and over again. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
Tille, Andreas wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: What happens when you try the user level nfs server? The nfs-user-server always worked like a charm and does now as well. But I really thought it would be depreciated and wanted to try nfs-kernel-server over and over again.

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread MPfeifer
Excellent, so you have a work around ~:^) Seriously, the kernel version will only give you better performance (depending on what the processor is), and who really needs that? Anyway, this sounds like what do you mean with depending on what the processor is? does NFS not work very well on

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: Excellent, so you have a work around ~:^) Seriously, the kernel version will only give you better performance (depending on what the processor is), and who really needs that? Performance and security. Well NFS is insecure anyway and I'm sitting behind

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
MPfeifer wrote: Excellent, so you have a work around ~:^) Seriously, the kernel version will only give you better performance (depending on what the processor is), and who really needs that? Anyway, this sounds like what do you mean with depending on what the processor is? does NFS

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Andrew Sharp
Tille, Andreas wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: Excellent, so you have a work around ~:^) Seriously, the kernel version will only give you better performance (depending on what the processor is), and who really needs that? Performance and security. Well NFS is insecure

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: Sounds like maybe something is wrong with the preceding lines. How about deleting all the comment lines before hand. Or adding one. Mine looks like this: benedict:/usr/share/kernel-package# cat /etc/exports # /etc/exports: the access control list

Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello, I just wanted to give the recent kernel a try after beeing bothered now to much by the broken NFS and NCPFS of my current 2.4.9. So I installed kernel-source-2.4.16 package from Woody and builded the usual way. But ... sparc64-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz
Quoting Tille, Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I just wanted to give the recent kernel a try after beeing bothered now to much by the broken NFS and NCPFS of my current 2.4.9. So I installed kernel-source-2.4.16 package from Woody and builded the usual way. But ... sparc64-linux-gcc

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz wrote: hmm, try it without LVM support. Seems that it still does not work for sparc My custom 2.4.16-pre1 did not compile with LVM support either. This worked so far even if I wanted to try LVM :-(. So I have to wait again for a kernel which fits my

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Guillaume Lécroart
, December 04, 2001 3:09 PM Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.16 Exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...wr-linux02.rki.ivbb.bund.de:/: Invalid argument

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Guillaume Lécroart wrote: Did you try to run mountd/nfsd w/ strace and/or debug flags? # strace /usr/sbin/exportfs -r 21 | tee exportfs.strace wr-linux02.rki.ivbb.bund.de:/: Invalid argument ... may be somebody would have a clue from that output. I for myself can't see

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Guillaume Lécroart
List debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 4:22 PM Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.16 On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Guillaume Lécroart wrote: Did you try to run mountd/nfsd w/ strace and/or debug flags? # strace /usr/sbin/exportfs -r 21 | tee exportfs.strace wr-linux02.rki.ivbb.bund.de

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Guillaume Lécroart wrote: strace seems to reveal that the error is reported by the kernel part of the stuff... This was my impression that something went really wrong inside the kernel. UNfortunately I have neither time nor enough knowledge to track down the problem into

Re: Kernel 2.4.16

2001-12-04 Thread Andrew Sharp
Tille, Andreas wrote: This was my impression that something went really wrong inside the kernel. UNfortunately I have neither time nor enough knowledge to track down the problem into the necessary detail to file a reasonable What happens when you try the user level nfs server? a