On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, entropy wrote:

> (sorry if this double posts)
> 
> thanks for the tip there.
> 
> i am still unclear about these ppc kernels.  i am curious as to the 
> difference between the bitkeeper and benh trees and the linuxppc trees, 
> but since everyone seems to go with the benh kernel, so will i.
> 

kernels, kernels everywhere :).  There's also kernel.org, which works on
PPC much of the time, until someone breaks PPC support in changing
somthing else.

> but... my real question
> 
> on the ppckernel.org page it says all this good stuff about the ibook 
> optimised  benh kernel, and i want to take advantage of that. is it 
> possible to build this kernel almost the same, except with the addition 
> of xfs and hfs+ modules?
> 

I don't really know anything about an "ibook optimized" kernel.  I use
BenH's stable rsync tree.  You could probably apply my xfs patches to this
ibook kernel source, but you may need to modify them.  My xfs and
supermount patches are sort of tied together, so if you want to break out
supermount, you'll have some work to do there (or just disiable it in the
kernel config).  The hfs+ patches I know zero about.  Most folks just make
an hfs partition if they want to share between to 2 OS's. Again, that
patch may or may not apply cleanly to whatever kernel source you choose to
use.

Depending on your level of experience, reworking/applying patches to the
kernel source will be the biggest piece of what you're trying to
accomplish.

Stew Benedict

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