In message <13881.1044613183 at www65.gmx.net> you wrote: > > Now I wanted to patch this kernel to run RTAI on the Board.
In this case you should post your question / problem on the rtai at rtai.org mailing list instead. > Testing if the pach works with --dry-run I received the following: > > patch --dry-run -b -z.PRE_RTAI -p1 < ../patch-denx-linux-2.4-D2002-09-26 > > patching file arch/ppc/8xx_io/commproc.c > patching file arch/ppc/8xx_io/Config.in > patching file arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c > patching file arch/ppc/8xx_io/lwmon_spi.c > Hunk #1 FAILED at 79. > Hunk #2 succeeded at 133 (offset 21 lines). > Hunk #3 FAILED at 587. > Hunk #4 FAILED at 681. > 3 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file Seems you are using the wrong kernel source tree; the patch name "D2002-09-26" suggests that you should use the kernel source tree version from date 2002-09-26. > Then I read that it is necessary to download the tree with revision date > 2002-09-26. I did this one and created a kernel-image without rtai > like before, and I copied it to the board and this time the following > happened: > > > Serial driver version 5.05a (2001-03-20) with no serial options enabled > Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 > NIP: C00B91CC XER: 8000007F LR: C00BD810 SP: C0209DC0 REGS: c0209d10 TRAP: > 0300 Obviously you have mis-configured your kernel. You try to access a non-existent device (standard serial port?). > What I would need is a combination of the source trees. The ideal would be > if i could patch the > kernel linux-2.4 from anonymous ftp on DENX as my PCMCIA card works with it. > Does > anyone have any suggestions what I could do to be able to patch this kernel? Just follow the instructions in ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/RTAI/README Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. -- James Michener, "Space" ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/