[Pkg-uml-devel] preparing u-m-l 2.6.17

[Mattia Dongili]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:30:44AM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:
[...]
> > Now, starting with config.i386 and changing the host processor type may
> > be probably enough, but giving it a real run is better yet :)
> 
> I simply copied the config and left all the options as is for now.
> 
> This is the diff I got with 2.6.16-2:
> 
> > diff config.amd64 config.i386

argh :) please use "-u" it makes the thing a lot more readable.

> 4c4
> < # Tue Jun 27 21:19:16 2006
> ---
> > # Wed May 31 18:05:17 2006
> 17a18,56
> > 
> > #
> > # Host processor type and features
> > #
> > # CONFIG_M386 is not set
> > CONFIG_M486=y
[...]
> > # CONFIG_MK8 is not set

you'll probably need this one set to Y instead of M486

[...]
> 22,29c60,66
> < CONFIG_TOP_ADDR=0x80000000
...
> ---
> > CONFIG_TOP_ADDR=0xc0000000

and I'm a bit worried about this one, see #366915:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=366915

> I build the package and also rootstrap, and installed both packages.  I got

Oops! we need to extend also the rootstrap's Architecture field :)
(and uml-run as soon as somebody will work on it).

> numerous warnings from the kernel but not having build this before for all

yes, there are many gcc warnings (possibly uninitialized variables
expecially) and some "section mismatch", don't worry too much about
them.

> Tomorrow I'll build an image after I've got the networking setup.  The first
> image build of course got stuck on that.

Great, thanks again!
I'll be away from my laptop in the next 2 days, will be back on saturday
morning.

Bye
-- 
mattia
:wq!