On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 10:41:09AM -0700, Jim Reiss wrote:
> Things are definitely getting better for me as I try to get Linux running
> on my Magnum 4000. The new "declinuxroot-990128.tgz" (on ftp.linux.sgi.com
> in /pub/linux/mips/mipsel-linux/root) helped a lot in getting those 5.1
> rpms loaded (though the root is oriented toward NFS installation, so I had
> to change the configuration a bit).
It's actually a tarball of a local disk. It's just as you say much easier
to install it via NFS.
> One thing I have discovered, though, and it may be of interest to others
> trying to install on the Magnum 4000...the latest CVS kernel does not
> compile properly for me (on the Magnum, using the egcs and binutils from
> the 5.1 rpms) unless I go into the ".config" file after a "make config" and
> disable the "frame buffer" video which is automatically selected. The fonts.c
> and g364fb.c files in the CVS tree fail to compile (two #include directives
> in g364fb.c are missing a leading "video/", there are "number of argument
> mismatch" problems in that same file, and fonts.c seems very selective about
> which configuration options will allow it to build).
>
> It's also important to note that the kernel requires the "loadkeys"
> and "genksyms" utilities in order to build certain portions of it.
> The genksyms utility is particularly problematic because there is not
> yet a "modutils" rpm for it (I got it out of CVS). Speaking of missing
> rpms, a "kernel-headers" rpm would also help a lot in making the process
> of installation cleaner. As it stands right now it's necessary to do
> a --nodeps to get include files installed.
The loadkeys command should be available on all Linux machines. If it's
not available you can avoid having to build it by touching
drivers/char/defkeymap.c. We should probably do then when creating
tarballs to avoid that problem for users.
genksyms is only required if you build with module versioning enabled. If
you are doing a native compile or a crosscompile on a Linux machine you'll
have genksyms available, so things should work smoothly then. Since a
few days there is a new modutils rpm online (I think it's in
/pub/linux/redhat/5.2/ or something like that), try that.
CC sent to Thomas Bogendoerfer who is the Magnum guy on duty.
Ralf
