Paulo, YDL5.0.2 only got support for SDK2.1 this past July. Owen posted about it on the 14th. Any by his own words, "but it isn't a very smooth update". I didn't have time to play with it then, and when SDK3 was announced went ahead and put FC7 on the PS3.
-Rob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Paulo J. Matos Sent: Thu 11/15/2007 3:16 PM To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] Kernel hacking On Nov 15, 2007 7:04 PM, Sanders, Rob M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Warren, > Yes. I've built kernels for YDL on both my G5 as well as the PS3. > The PS3 kernels were for the initial YDL5 release, so I could get > hugetbl support for the cell back last November. It took something > like a day to figure out exactly how to do it (what source to use) > before I got it up. I think I've got some of the emails at home > between Owen and I from then. > Currently I'm running FC7 on the PS3, so I can play with SDK3.0. Can't you use SDK3.0 in YDL? > If you haven't already done so, check out the following page: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power > Lots of links to good articles, and also check out the Cell Broadband > Forum pages, I know I've seen a bunch of posts about hugetbl > installations. > > -Rob > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Warren Nagourney > Sent: Thu 11/15/2007 1:25 PM > To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics > > Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] Kernel hacking > > Thanks, Rob. Actually, I did make the initrd after building the > kernel (and I included the appropriate reference to initrd in my > kboot.conf). Have you ever done the kernel build on YDL? > > Warren > > On Nov 15, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Sanders, Rob M. wrote: > > > Warren, > > I've done the hugetbl/hugepages mods a couple of times on a PS3 > > without > > having any problems. The last time was with Fedora 7 (needed to > > play with > > SDK3.0). I didn't use the kernel from the cell addon, but one from > > Geoff's > > page (don't have the link handy, but should be google-able [is that > > a word?]). > > Did you make a new initrd image from your new kernel? It sounded > > like you > > didn't from your email. I don't know if that would make a huge > > difference or > > not, I don't normally make an initrd when booting my G5, but it > > seems most > > of the x86 distro's I've used and the PS3 use it. > > > > Rob > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on > > behalf of Warren Nagourney > > Sent: Wed 11/14/2007 10:53 PM > > To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics > > Subject: [ydl-gen] Kernel hacking > > > > For a number of reasons, I have gone into the kernel hacking business > > in YDL 5.02 on a PS3 and started by taking the 2.6.23 kernel (from > > the most recent CELL linux ADDON iso) and compiling it, following the > > instructions in the Cell Performance article on making huge pages. I > > made the appropriate changes in the kboot.conf file to reflect the > > new kernel and tried to boot. SInce this is my first attempt at > > kernel manufacture, I was not surprised that it didn't work: I got an > > error message "switchroot: mount failed" and a kernel panic. > > > > I looked at the init file in the initrd image and compared it to the > > one in the initrd for a working kernel: they were identical (not > > surprising, since the same mkinitrd was probably used for both). Does > > anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. > > > > Warren Nagourney > > > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > > > <winmail.dat> > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm PhD Student @ ECS University of Southampton, UK _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
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