"Brian R. Thacker" wrote:
>
> I read the thread on the kernel patches for getting the UDMA IDE ports on the
> Abit BP6 motherboard to work under Linux; I have two questions, first, I
> downloaded all of the patches from http://opensource.captech.com/LinuxIDE/ but
> I'm rather confused as to which patches I actually need to use? Second, It's
> been so long since I applied patches of this nature, that I do not know how to
> use them now that I've got them. If someone could point me in the general
> direction I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
How do you like that board so far? I've been looking at picking one up,
but haven't been able to convince myself to get the Socket 370 yet.
Sort of limits the upgrades you can do on the board...
Anyway, applying patches:
cd /usr/src/
patch -p0 < patchfile
If that pops up errors, or asks you where the file is, Control-C out of
it, then use this instead:
cd linux
patch -p1 < patchfile
There's a bit of leniency about where patches are created from. For
real Linus patches, it's the first set of instructions. Alan's patches
seem to need the other method. In the end, they both patch the correct
files.
Good luck!
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corp.
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