[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 27.09.2006 18:58:35: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > "Smith, Stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (...) > > > > There are success reports from the s390 guys that they have a slightly > > modified kboot working in their 64bit environment. > > Good news. > > > > Eric > > Thanks.
One more comment on our 64bit experience on s390: In our environment the main problem was the uClibc which we replaced by glibc. The glibc-based kboot worked on i386 32bit as well as s390 31bit and 64 bit. You may have a look on our Makefile which allows to switch between uClibc and glibc. I recommend to look at our old patches against kboot-9 because this version is relatively close to Werner's original kboot. If you are not interested in our extensions it should be easy to throw them out. In our latest version (patches 1 to 6 against kboot-10) we did not use the original make process anymore. Instead we introduced a 'make local' option which uses a script to build a kboot like ramdisk out of the currently running system (without compiling). If you have no size restrictions for your ramdisk and would like to have maximum compatibility with the system that will be finally booted you may also have a look at this. best regards Michael --- Michael Loehr Linux for zSeries Development IBM, Mainz, Germany _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
