On Friday 29 March 2013 09:08:27 Tom H did opine: CCing the lkml too.
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Nils Kassube <kass...@gmx.net> wrote: > > I don't know of a particilar tool to extract that info. I can't tell > > you for your -rtai kernel but the standard Ubuntu kernels come with a > > file /boot/config-$(uname -r) which is the .config from the kernel > > build. There you could search for '=y', but it would list more than > > only parts which can be compiled either as module or built-in. I > > checked the contents of the initrd and it seems the file /etc/modules > > isn't included there. Obviously it is run later in the boot sequence, > > not from the initrd. Sorry for that misleading suggestion. > > > >... > > > > While it looks right, I don't think it will help because the contents > > of /etc/modules doesn't seem to be included in the initrd anyway (see > > above). > > /etc/initramfs-tools/modules And that brings up a chicken/egg problem, as in if it can't access that UUID containing /etc/modules, how does it read it to find out its supposed to do early early loads of sata_nv, and possibly i2c_nforce even if they are in the generated initrd? Either way I'm screwed. When I installed 10.04-4 LTS, it had no complaints about my telling it to format / as ext4. But now the newer kernels seem to have thrown away that capability by some sort of tom-foolery. To bring the lkml up to speed on this, it seems that I can set CONFIG_SATA_NV=y in the .config file for a later kernel all I want, but then touching that file with either a 'make menuconfig' or a 'make xconfig' automatically nukes it, so I'm building kernels here that can't find the UUID of the / partition formatted as ext4, about 5 secs into the boot. Reset and go back to the only kernel I have that boots, 2.6.32-122.rtai. Thanks to anyone who has a fix. Perhaps an option passed to make I can put in my makeit script to build SATA_NV as part of vmlinuz anyway? I'm not familiar enough with makefile arguments to have a clue what that syntax might look like. :( Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. -- Fred Allen I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
