Thanks. I'll try it as soon as I can. I need to patch my kernel with
promise udma support, and that patch conflicts with another patch I want
to use (not win4lin) so I'll have to down work it all out.
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Richard Fish wrote:
>
> Sorry, my previous statement about modifying only one line was incorrect.
> The additional patch to work with a AA kernel modifies one line. One
> segment of the 2.2.18 patch fails with 2.2.19, and it is in the apm.c
> file.
>
> Let me know if there are any problems with these....
>
> Detailed instructions on how to patch kernel 2.2.19 for Win4Lin:
>
> - Save the following as /usr/src/win4lin-2.2.19-apm-patch
>
> <snip>
> --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c.orig Fri Apr 6 10:48:58 2001
> +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c Fri Apr 6 10:50:19 2001
> @@ -1536,9 +1536,22 @@
> * This is for buggy BIOS's that refer to (real mode) segment 0x40
> * even though they are called in protected mode.
> */
> +#ifndef BEFORE_GDT_PATCH
> + gdt[APM_40 >> 3].a = 0x00000000;
> + gdt[APM_40 >> 3].b = 0x00409200;
> +#endif
> set_base(gdt[APM_40 >> 3],
> __va((unsigned long)0x40 << 4));
> _set_limit((char *)&gdt[APM_40 >> 3], 4095 - (0x40 << 4));
> +
> +#ifndef BEFORE_GDT_PATCH
> + gdt[APM_CS >> 3].a = 0x00000000;
> + gdt[APM_CS >> 3].b = 0x00409a00 ;
> + gdt[APM_CS_16 >> 3].a = 0x00000000;
> + gdt[APM_CS_16 >> 3].b = 0x00009a00;
> + gdt[APM_DS >> 3].a = 0x00000000;
> + gdt[APM_DS >> 3].b = 0x00409200;
> +#endif
>
> apm_bios_entry.offset = apm_info.bios.offset;
> apm_bios_entry.segment = APM_CS;
> <snip>
>
> - Make sure you have /usr/src/linux-2.2.19.tar.bz2 from kernel.org
> - Make sure you have Kernel-Win4Lin2_2.2.18-1.patch from netraverse.
> - Run:
>
> % tar -xvf linux-2.2.19.tar.bz2 --use=bzip2
> % cat Kernel-Win4Lin2_2.2.18-1.patch | (cd linux ; patch -p1)
> (Will fail on arch/i386/kernel/apm.c)
> % cat win4lin-2.2.19-apm-patch | (cd linux; patch -p1)
>
>
> Configure, compile, and install as normal.
>
> **************************************************************
> **** Only for those applying Andrea's 2.2.19aa1.bz2 patch ****
> **************************************************************
>
> Save the following as win4lin-2.2.19-aa-patch:
> <snip>
> --- linux/arch/i386/mm/mkivmem.c.orig Sat Feb 17 12:28:12 2001
> +++ linux/arch/i386/mm/mkivmem.c Sat Feb 17 12:28:55 2001
> @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@
>
> MKI_ASSERT(pageinfop->inode != NULL);
> MKI_ASSERT(file->f_dentry->d_inode == pageinfop->inode);
> - MKI_ASSERT(pageinfop->offset == offset);
> + MKI_ASSERT(pgoff2loff(pageinfop->index) == offset);
>
> if ((physpte & (_PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ACCESSED)) == 0) {
> /*
> <snip>
>
> Then run:
>
> % tar -xvf linux-2.2.19.tar.bz2 --use=bzip2
> % bzcat 2.2.19aa1.bz2 | (cd linux ; patch -p1)
> % cat Kernel-Win4Lin2_2.2.18-1.patch | (cd linux ; patch -p1)
> (Will fail on arch/i386/kernel/apm.c)
> % cat win4lin-2.2.19-apm-patch | (cd linux; patch -p1)
> % cat win4lin-2.2.19-aa-patch | (cd linux ; patch -p1)
>
> Again, configure, compile, and install as normal.
>
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Michael L Torrie wrote:
>
> > Would you be so kind as to post your diff here. I'm ready to upgrade to
> > 2.2.19 any time...
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Richard Fish wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is unfortunate. The official 2.2.19 has been released and I'm
> > > > running it on my workstations. I wonder if 2.2.19 has the newer 2.4-style
> > > > vm architecture changes merged into it. Well, now it seems win4lin no
> > > > longer runs on linux 2.2.x at all. (Even win4lin 2.0). I guess I'll just
> > >
> > > No, the incompatible VM changes are not in 2.2.19. I'm using W4L on a
> > > 2.2.19 kernel without any trouble at all. Of course, my kernel is updated
> > > with the latest LFS, RAID, and other patches from Andrea, as well as the
> > > latest IDE super patch. Even with all of that though, my patch to fix W4L
> > > on this setup only modifies 1 line.
> > >
> > >
> >
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