Ok, so now the question becomes, why are you wanting to run Gentoo? Debian for S/390 is current, known to work, and not on the bleeding edge of kernels. Then there's Tao Linux (based on RHEL3), etc.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lcs problem under 2.6 According to the Gentoo install doc, "The only kernel that is currently supported by Gentoo's S/390 port is 2.6.5 development-sources. If you want to you can try a different kernel by adding the s390 keyword to the ebuild. To install the kernel source all you need to do is emerge them". Perhaps this is a problem within the kernel or lcs driver???? I can live with that, but if it's a setup problem I would like to learn what needs to be done. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/19/04 11:04AM >>> That would be a patch to the kernel source. If you're still new enough at this that you don't know what to do with it, you're in for a real, ummm, learning experience as they say. I have to ask why you want so much to be working with 2.6? Is there something there you really need for your particular business situation? Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lcs problem under 2.6 Yes I did. I've downloaded the kernel-2.6.5 May 18, 2004 tar file. I have to admit I don't know what to do with this? Is this kernel source or executables??? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/19/04 10:53AM >>> To the person who was having lcs problems with 2.6. Did you see this on the latest code drop on Developerworks? Description:lcs: LCS interface cannot be initialized. Symptom:System hangs during startup when initializing a LCS interface. Problem:When IP multicast addresses are registered, the lcs card's lock was used for synchronization. The scope of this lock is too large. Solution:Don't use card->lock. Introduced card->ipm_lock to synchronize multicast lists. Problem-ID:- Description:lcs: net_device reference counting problem. Symptom:Trying to do an rmmod lcs or ungrouping an lcs device results in a hanging session with messages "waiting for ... to become free" displayed. Problem:An in_dev_put was missing in multicast address list handling. Solution:Added the missing in_dev_put. Problem-ID:- Description:lcs: null-pointer dereference failure after unsuccessful set_online. Symptom:If setting an LCS card online fails, the next try to set the card online results in a null-pointer dereference. Problem:Card's IO buffers are freed if lcs_detect returns an error. Solution:Do not call lcs_cleanup_card in case of errors in lcs_new_device. This allows for trying to set an LCS card online multiple times. lcs_cleanup_card is called in lcs_remove_device which is sufficient for freeing allocated memory. Neale Ferguson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
