On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:43, Robert Crawford wrote: > Dave, > Sounds like you had great success! So, we now know at least that Hz patch can > be added to the already heavily patched Mandrake kernels. Could you please > post some info on the two minor patch failures, and how you fixed them?
Yes please please please! *grin* > > The only benchmarking tools I know of for Linux are one called bonnie and > glxgears, but there must be more. I haven't really investigated those things > since I switched to Linux a year ago. I did run the Sandra benchmarks pretty > often when I used Windows, and was learning how to tweak win98 and XP to the > max. > > Robert > > > On Monday 30 June 2003 18:07, Dave Sherman wrote: > > Robert Crawford wrote: > > > Waiting sounds wise- no use in messing up your current setup. > > > > > > However, if you really wanted to see if it will apply, what you could try > > > is copying your stock MDK kernel sources directory from /usr/src to it's > > > own directory in /home. (Compiling there is much safer than doing it as > > > root in /usr/src, especially for people like me still learning).Then make > > > a backup of your .config file, and cd in a console (as user) to the new > > > directory in /home where you copied the MDK kernel sources to, and run > > > mrproper. Then, try applying the Hz patch. If it applies OK, do a make > > > xconfig and load the copy of your stock .config file into xconfig., Then > > > change the value of the Hz line to =1000Hz, and save and exit. > > > > > > VERY IMPORTANT:Check the makefile extra version line at the top of the > > > file to see if it added the -ck2 extra version when the patch applied, > > > otherwise if you do choose to install this kernel and the name (version) > > > is the same, it will overwrite your original modules directory, and not > > > create a new -ck2 version. In your case, that would be a disaster. > > > > > > Then you can (as user) do: > > > > > > make dep > > > make clean > > > make bzImage > > > make modules > > > > > > If you get through these with no error outs, you are probably OK, and > > > will then know the patch probably didn't cause any problem. Up to this > > > point, nothing you have done could possibly affect your current kernel > > > setup. > > > > > > If you want to actually install, su to root and do: > > > > > > make modules_install > > > > > > This will put a new modules directory in /lib/modules with the new -ck2 > > > version name, leaving the original untouched. > > > > > > I never do the usual final "make install" to call the kernel script after > > > that if I'm not compiling in /usr/src. I did that once, and had huge > > > problems. I manually copy System.map and bzImage to /boot, naming them to > > > reflect the extra version, like System.map-2.4.21-ck2, and > > > bzImage-2.4.21-ck2. I then edit lilo, and since I don't use an initrd > > > file for the new kernel, I delete the initrd line in the new kernel's > > > lilo stanza, so it looks like: > > > > > > image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.21-ck3 > > > label=2421ck3 > > > root=/dev/hda10 > > > append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet" > > > vga=788 > > > read-only > > > > > > Then save, and run lilo as root. > > > > > > Of course there's no way to know if doing all this will actually increase > > > system response in a noticable way, even if the patch applies on the MDK > > > kernel, without actually doing it. I can report that all the ck patches > > > I've applied seem to work great on the vanilla 2.4.21. > > > > Well, I was following this thread over the weekend, and so today I went > > ahead and followed your directions. I installed the multimedia kernel > > and source, then booted into the Mandrake multimedia kernel to make sure > > it worked - it did, at least as good as the stock Mandrake kernel. > > > > So, I went ahead and downloaded the patch, and patched the mm kernel > > source, which I had copied and chowned into $HOME/src/. The patch had > > two minor failures, which I was able to manually fix (I've never even > > patched a kernel before, let alone had to manually patch some source > > code because the patch failed - but it was easy). > > > > I check the Makefile, and sure enough I also had to edit the > > extra-version info to indicate 'ck2' so I wouldn't blow away my existing > > multimedia kernel modules. > > > > Everything compiled without errors, so I went ahead and installed the > > modules and kernel. I am running the patched mm kernel right now, and it > > performs at least as well as the stock kernel and (unpatched) mm kernel. > > Not sure how to do any performance benchmarks, but at least nothing is > > broken! > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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