On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:26:30PM -0500, Wenbin Zhang wrote: > Hi Herbert, > > Thank you very much! > Actually I'd like to send you a phone to test it :-)
perfect ... I'll send you my postal address in a private mail then ... > But before I do that, let me try it firstly :-) sure ... > Yes I can switch to 2.6, no problems. in this case, I'd suggest to do so, for several reasons, one being the fact that the 2.0/2.2 branches are much more performant than the 1.2 branch, another being that the 2.2 patches provide a lot more useful features ... > However I checked the arm-ezx patch, > http://www.openezx.org/download/, > all the patches are for linux 2.6.16 kernel. yeah, folks love the 2.6.16 kernel :) > However, for Vserver patches, > http://ftp.linux-vserver.org/pub/kernel/vs2.0/, > they are only 2.6.12, 2.6.14, 2.6.17 version. > So the two kind of patches are not for the same > version of 2.6 kernel. check out this one: http://people.linux-vserver.org/~dhozac/p/k/patch-2.6.16.37-vs2.0.3-rc1.diff > Moreover, even they are for the same version, for > example, 2.6.16 kernel, I guess there are still > conflicts if we apply the two patches simutaneously. > We have two ways: > 1) apply openezx patch, then Vserver patch > 2) apply Vserver patch, then openexz patch > > But we cannot guarantee the two patch have no i > conflicts each other, any ideas? yes, that's called merging, and that is what you have to do when you got more than one patch ... of course, it helps a lot if you know one or even better all of the involved patches :) best, Herbert > Thanks, > Wenbin > > On 3/1/07, Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 01:51:20PM -0500, Wenbin Zhang wrote: > >> Hello Guys, > >> > >> I want to run the Vserver on Moto E680i cell phone, which is an ARM > >> chip, specically the Intel XScale-Bulverde chip. I guess Vserver > >> should be able to support this architecture. I downloaded the E680i > >> kernel souce code from: > >> > >https://opensource.motorola.com/sf/frs/do/downloadFile/projects.a780e680/frs.a780_e680_source.a780_e680/frs1003?dl=1 > > > >sounds good! > > > >> However, all the Vserver patches on > >> http://ftp.linux-vserver.org/pub/kernel/vs1.2/ cannot match the > >> E680i linux 2.4 source code. There are lots of conflicts. > > > >not unexpected, it's quite old and doesn't probably fit > >what you need for the E680i ... > > > >the main question is, are you sure you want to go with > >the 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6? I know, arm support is > >not the best in Linux, especially as there are many > >different hardware vendors with quite different ideas > >how the arch support should look like ... > > > >> Could you let me know where to download the ARM kernel source > >> code and the corresponding Vserver patch? Thank you very much! > > > >well, here are the good news, the 2.6 patches will > >work on arm quite well, so given that you can go with > >2.6 on your sub-arch, that would simplify it a lot > > > >there are also good news when you have to stick with > >2.4 for whatever reason, and it basically boils down > >to the fact that Linux-VServer is quite hardware > >agnostic, so I do not think it would be too hard to > >adapt the patches to your vendor specific tree ... > > > >so for example I could imagine to adapt the patches > >for your specific branch if you send me a phone for > >testing it :) > > > >best, > >Herbert > > > >> Thanks, > >> Wenbin > > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Vserver mailing list > >> Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > >> http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver