On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:18:16PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > Sven Luther declared on Saturday 06 March 2004 03:58 am: > > And also at : > > > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/power3/2.4.25-2 > > > > which contain unpacked kernels from the -power3 config. > > > > Known problems are : > > > > pcnet ethernet driver is modular. Most power3 boxes seem to use > > this one. > > One more problem.. no himem support. It only uses 512MB of the 2048MB > Installed on the POWER3 SP node I've got it booted on.
Ok, so it worked out well, apart from that. Do you think all power3 boxes would need himem ? Last i tried that, for 2.4.20 or so, it failed to build though. > What kernel version, and gcc toolchain did you use for this? I'm not > sure if it's a gcc or kernel source trouble, but when I try compiling > the "2.4.24 with debian patches" I apt-get source'd with gcc-3.3 and > -3.2 in testing, I get some 'unknown opcode' errors, which either are > asm in the kernel files that is wrong, or gcc problems. Mmm, could you tell me which files are involved and i can have a look at it. I am using 2.4.25 + debian patches + linuxppc-benh patches. Friendly, Sven Luther
