🚀 go-pugleaf

Ken Firestone (kenf@clark.net) wrote:
: Panu J Matilainen (pjmatila@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
:         <stuff cut out>
: : 
: : Use the compressed image from linux/arch/i386/boot (zImage) instead of
: : vmlinux which is in the linux source-root.
: I think you will have to do a "make zImage" somewhere along the line.
: I remember doing this the last two times I recompiled the kernel. It
: seems this is slightly different than what we did with kernels prior
: to 1.2.X.

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I've always built the compressed kernel.  Have since 1.1.59.  As far as 
the BIG Kernel, well, not much you can do except to remove support.  Just 
a note to anyone braving the newest version of 1.3.XX... I built 1.3.9, 
it had some compile bugs... One may have been an installation design 
issue, but... The first bug was with sound support: file uart8950.c or 
something like that.  It uses a macro (INTR_xxxxx_xxxxx  don't remember 
exactly, but I can chack it.  It is supposed to be INT_xxxxx_xxxxx) that 
generates a compile error.  Had to hunt for a while to find the right 
macro, but it wasn't too hard.  The other bug is with new ide support.  
What happens is that for the first few options it asks you if you want 
this or that ide support.  Then it asks you if you want the new extended 
ide support (extended meaning more that 1 ide controller I think, or more 
than 1 device... I think it is controller, it has been a couple of weeks 
since I built this thing...) ... If you choose no as I did, an important 
file doesn't get included.  And things do not compile because you are 
missing some functions...   Well, they don't link anyway...  So you must 
choose that... I do believe that is an error because you shouldn't have 
to choose experimental support... but maybe it is the way in which I 
interpreted the other options.  Anyway, just a note to anyone wanting to 
brave the experimantal kernel... it works rather well...  Just make sure 
you have a kernel backup...  And this kernel does produce a BIG kernel 
warning...
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