Veydan Wu wrote: > Hi, Rick, the download page provide the pre-compiled kernel vmlinux, > but what I need is to compile some device drivers, so I need the > compiled source code. Look neard Look near the bottom of the M5-download page under "Really Old Version" and you will find a slightly modified linux 2.6.8.1 source tree. You can cross-compile that. In general, I think all you really need is any 2.6+ kernel and a M5 diff that contains support for special M5 instructions (like checkpoint, dumpstats ... etc). After that, use the alpha cross compiler also found on the download page and you are ready to go. If that version of the kernel does not work and there are no objections, I can provide a 2.6.18 kernel for you. I have problems with the alpha cross compiler on my AMD machine (although I have stirred fervor that AMD is not the cause) from a kernel panic, but no problems on an Intel machine. Anyways, might as well try it out. > > I also try to look at what the linux-bigswap2.img contains, but it's a > data file not the type like linux-latest.img that can be mounted. so I > am not sure whether there is something I need in linux-bigswap2.img. This was answered by Nate. > > I only have x86 platform so all I can do is to cross compile the > source code of linux for alpha and it is full of errors and I am not > sure whether it will work. I guess somebody here must have compiled > the source for alpha becasue the vmlinux is already provided, if that > can be provided then my problem would be solved, I think that maybe > necessary for others too. You are going to want to appl the diffs that are present on the M5 download page. Also, make sure you are building with the right cross compiler command for the linux kernel. Set your environment variable CROSS_COMPILE, and do 'make O="<path to your build directory>" ARCH=alpha' and you should get a kernel. If you are getting gcc errors related to a lack of ev6 support, make sure you are using the most update gcc cross compiler. > > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:07:09 -0700 > From: Rick Strong <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [m5-users] linux kernel for alpha > To: M5 users mailing list <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Message-ID: <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > The linux kernel for the alpha architecture can be found on the > download > page for M5 @ http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Download > Veydan Wu wrote: > > Hi, does anybody have a linux kernel for alpha architecture. I > want to > > compile some device driver running on M5 FS mode, I only have kernel > > for x86 now, it will take much time to compile using a cross > compiler, > > so if anyone have one, please send me a copy. Thanks very much ! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
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