[Gllug] compiling 2.5 kernels

[Stephen Harker]

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 19:55, steve at topdecktravel.co.uk wrote:
> Quoting Dave Jones <davej at suse.de>:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 04:02:19PM +0100, Stephen Harker wrote:
> > 
> >  > I'm beginning to think that I might just play around with the 2.4 series
> >  > kernels instead because I really don't fancy letting this dodgy kernel
> >  > I'm building loose on my mp3 collection etc...
> > 
> > Very wise. 2.5 is held together by lots of pieces of string at best
> > right now. I've been fortunate enough not to have lost anything so far
> > on all 3 of my 'victim' boxes, but I don't trust it enough for my
> > desktop/laptop just yet.
> 
> Well I got a 2.5.8 kernel and modules eventually and it booted up and I got as 
> far as KDM and I went to login and my keyboard wasn't working so back to the 
> drawing board.
> 
> >  > If I want to apply the 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 patch, do I patch it to a stable
> >  > 2.4.18 source tree or is there something else I have to do first?
> > 
> > get 2.4.18
> > apply 2.4.19-pre5 on top
> > apply 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 on top
> OK. 
> >  > I tried it just now and I think I got it all wrong.
> > 
> > Usually, taking the last - element off the name of the patch is what
> > you need to apply it to. 
> Oh right. Makes sense. I've not really gone this far down this particular road 
> before :-)

HURRAH!
A running 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 kernel that allows me to set DMA on my
/dev/hdc. Which was the original reason to go through all this mess in
the first place!!!

[root at abe steve]# uname -a
Linux abe 2.4.19-pre5-ac3 #2 Thu Apr 18 19:42:48 BST 2002 i686 unknown
[root at abe steve]# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
[root at abe steve]#

Thanks everyone. I learned quite a bit from all that.
Steve
PS. When is 2.4.19 stable due out?



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