[Linux-streams] RH 2.6 64-bit experience needed

[Paul Landay]

> Hello,
> I plan to move my driver to 64-bit RH 2.6.9-5ELsmp.
> I'd like to know if people on the list have experience
> with 64-bit RH that they could share.
> Looks like Dan have some good results with that.

> There seems to be special RH-oriented function in Configure:
>   # Red Hat helper for getting SMP info
>  rh_get_smp()
> but I do not see who calls it.
> Anyway, I'll appreciate any 64-bit experience in
> building and debugging.

Attached are three patches which we apply on top of the
LiS 2.18.0 from ftp.gcom.com.  These patches allow us
to build and run on RHEL4 and SLES9 for ppc64 and s390x
(64bit) platforms.  They also contain changes for the
x86_64 platform, but those have not been tested yet.

Before running the LiS 'make' we do this:
  RHEL4:
    ln -fs /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-5.EL-smp-i686 /usr/src/linux
      change the '2.6.9-5.EL-smp-i686' as needed
  SLES9:
    cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.xxx
      change the '2.6.5-7.xxx' as needed
    make cloneconfig
    make modules_prepare

There are parts of those patches which you may not want
to use in your case, in particular the change to __SID
in stropts.h which was needed for s390x (IBM Mainframes).

Paul Landay

> The 1st problem I noticed it that Configure script cannot figure out > if my system is SMP.

LiS-2.18.0-C.patch.gz
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LiS-2.18.0-A.patch.gz
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LiS-2.18.0-B.patch.gz
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