Hi, Ali:
Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I followed your suggestions and M5 webpage:
Using Mercurial to build connection with the repository, download linux kernels
and linux patches and following the instructions on page "Using linux-dist to
Create Disk Images and Kernels for M5" to build the kernel.
I first try kernel 22 for several times, but never successful. Since I am an
engineer student, something obvious to CS student may not be obvious to me. I
tried to use patch "patch_to_2.6.22.2.diff" in the folder "stable" and patch
"defaultconfig_2.6.22.diff" in folder "m5" seperately and use them together,
but cause several errors. Either the kernel can't be compiled (step 2 of above
webpage, I have to comment some source code (even not too much) to make it
compiled) or the linux box can't be compiled ("ptxdist go" step). I tried it
for several times, either using different patches or using other version of
kernel, i.e., kernel 2.6.22.2, but never went through.
For kernel 18, if using patch "defaultconfig_2.6.18.diff" only, it can finish
all steps on the m5 webpage, but when I load it to m5_2.0.b4 (which I already
did some work on it), the kernel can't be loaded, it stop at:
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:00.0 to 64
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8400-0x8407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8408-0x840f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Kernel 13, I believe is the one with m5_2.0.b4 when download (I know it is not
the most current version, but sicne I already did some work on it, so prefer
stay on it). When I tried to compile kernel 13, I used most patches in the
folder "m5", except those specified for kernel 18 or 22. It went through all
steps on abobe m5 webpage, but when I loaded it to m5_2.0.b4, it stop at:
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:00.0 to 64
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8400-0x8407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8408-0x840f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: M5 IDE Disk, ATA DISK drive
hdb: M5 IDE Disk, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x8410-0x8417,0x8422 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 409248 sectors (209 MB), CHS=406/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda:<4>hda: lost interrupt
Do you know what is the reason for that? Also could you let me know what
patches should I use for different kernel, in what order? Since when I tried
different patches on each kernel, some make it go through all steps on m5
webpages, some cause errors uring compiling.
Thanks, and your help is really appreciated.
Jiao
--- On Wed, 10/22/08, Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [m5-users] Create Disk Images and Kernels for M5
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "M5 users mailing list" <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 1:06 PM
On Oct 22, 2008, at 11:03 AM, jia wang wrote:
> For M5 developper or anyone who can help:
>
> This is Jiao, a student of ECE department of Northeastern Univ., and
> I am trying to use M5 full system in my research. It is a great tool
> for our research, but if we can have access to the M5 OS (Linux
> 2.6.13), that will be much more helpful. I tried to create disk
> images and kernel for M5 according to the document from M5 main
> website - "Using linux-dist to Create Disk Images and Kernels for
> M5", but face the following difficulties:
>
> There are three steps to build up disk images:
>
> (1): compile a cross-compiler capable of building alpha binaries.
>
> In this step, I followed the instructions to use crosstool 0.42,
> make change to demo-alpha.sh and gcc-3.4.3-glibc-2.3.5.dat. But when
> I run the demo-alpha.sh to install the cross-compiler, it showed
> error of "linux-libc-headers-2.6.13.0.tar.bz2 not exist". I went
to
> the website: ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/linux-libc-headers/ and
> found the lastest header is linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.tar.bz2.
> Could anybody explain to me what this header is for and where to get
> the version linux-libc-headers-2.6.13.0.tar.bz2? Since the lastest
> version is 2.6.12.0, so I just use it for demo-alpha.sh and
> successfully generate the cross-compiler gcc-3.4.3-glibc-2.3.5.
That should be fine.
>
>
> (2): compile a kernel using this cross-compiler
>
> For this step, I download kernel linux-2.6.13 and try to use cross-
> compiler gcc-3.4.3-glibc-2.3.5 to build it using command:
>
> make ARCH=alpha CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/crosstool/gcc-3.4.3-glibc-2.3.5/
> alpha-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/alpha-unknown-linux-gnu- vmlinux
> But I got the following errors:
>
> In file included from arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.c:11:
> include/asm/io.h: In function `ioport_map':
> include/asm/io.h:273: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `__IO_PREFIX_ioportmap'
> include/asm/io.h:273: warning: return makes pointer from integer
> without a cast
> include/asm/io.h: In function `ioremap':
> include/asm/io.h:282: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `__IO_PREFIX_ioremap'
> include/asm/io.h:282: warning: return makes pointer from integer
> without a cast
> include/asm/io.h: In function `iounmap':
> include/asm/io.h:299: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `__IO_PREFIX_iounmap'
> include/asm/io.h: In function `__is_ioaddr':
> include/asm/io.h:304: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `__IO_PREFIX_is_ioaddr'
> include/asm/io.h: In function `__is_mmio':
> include/asm/io.h:310: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `__IO_PREFIX_is_mmio'
> make[1]: *** [arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
> make: *** [arch/alpha/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 2
I don't imagine you configured the kernel or copied the .config.m5
to .config (assuming you're using our linux-patches repository).
>
>
> Since I use different header in step 1, so I also try the same
> command on Linux kernel 2.6.12.0, but got the same error. Does that
> because I use the wrong header in step 1 or because I didn't get the
> right kernel? If it is kernel probelm, can anyone please let me know
> where to get the right kernel?
I recommend you get a newer kernel 2.6.18 or 2.6.22 and use the linux
patches repository on it. Either way the problem current seems to be
that the kernel wasn't configured, __IO_PREIX should get replaced by
something like generic_ or tsunami_ if the kernel is configured
correctly.
Ali
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