Hi Laurent, On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:54:30AM -0700, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> ............................... I still like the machine better > though, so it's worse the extra efforts ;-) If you mean worth instead of worse - so most of us do so, I think ;-) > Is the loading mechanism for kernel modules supported on the PPC platform? Read /Documentation/kmod.txt in the kernel-sources ;-) Eventually you're interested in <man modprobe> and so on .... > Can I compile my kernel without a specific module then compile the driver > and store it in /lib/modules/<kernel_version>/ or am I better off compiling > as a big monolithic kernel? Why you want compile a lonley kernel and by a second effort any driver (is that the way to do in x86, you mentioned above?) I mean, AFAIK you decide compiling drivers in the kernel _or_compile it as module ... - am I wrong or misunderstanding your willing? > My problem is understanding where the kernel > image stored on the bootstrap partition (vmlinux) kicks in the root > partition and can see the drivers if it can see them at all on it. > > I was looking at the PowerPC installation disk for debian. I noticed that > there is a file in there called drivers.tar.gz. What am I supposed to do > with this file? Why don't let the installation do this and compile your own kernel after you installed from a working system? > Should I leave it in the bootstrap dir uncompressed next to > yaboot and vmlinux files? Decompress it and move it in the /lib/modules/ dir > in my root partition? Puzzled. Hmmm ;-/ . So AFAIK (and did) you have to compile the kernel (with debian ) the following way (as root): cd /usr/src/linux (or whereever the kernel-sources are) make config (or make menuconfig or make xconfig - last recommended if it works on your install) make-kpkg kernel_image cd .. dpkg -i kernel-image* This should install the vmlinux in /boot and links /vmlinux to it and install all the drivers you choosen as module in /lib/modules/2.*.* . Hope that helps Cheers -- mfg Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
