On Nov 15, 2007 8:25 PM, Sanders, Rob M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paulo, > YDL5.0.2 only got support for SDK2.1 this past July. Owen posted about it > on the 14th. Any by his own words, "but it isn't a very smooth update". I > didn't > have time to play with it then, and when SDK3 was announced went ahead and > put FC7 > on the PS3. >
And it is that hard to install SDK3 on YDL ? I've been using Gentoo Linux for all my systems for a couple of years and I've always thought installing something even if not directly supported by the distribution should be easy. Is this not the case with YDL? Cheers, Paulo Matos > -Rob > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Paulo J. Matos > Sent: Thu 11/15/2007 3:16 PM > To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics > Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] Kernel hacking > > On Nov 15, 2007 7:04 PM, Sanders, Rob M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Warren, > > Yes. I've built kernels for YDL on both my G5 as well as the PS3. > > The PS3 kernels were for the initial YDL5 release, so I could get > > hugetbl support for the cell back last November. It took something > > like a day to figure out exactly how to do it (what source to use) > > before I got it up. I think I've got some of the emails at home > > between Owen and I from then. > > Currently I'm running FC7 on the PS3, so I can play with SDK3.0. > > Can't you use SDK3.0 in YDL? > > > If you haven't already done so, check out the following page: > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power > > Lots of links to good articles, and also check out the Cell Broadband > > Forum pages, I know I've seen a bunch of posts about hugetbl > > installations. > > > > -Rob > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Warren Nagourney > > Sent: Thu 11/15/2007 1:25 PM > > To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics > > > > Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] Kernel hacking > > > > Thanks, Rob. Actually, I did make the initrd after building the > > kernel (and I included the appropriate reference to initrd in my > > kboot.conf). Have you ever done the kernel build on YDL? > > > > Warren > > > > On Nov 15, 2007, at 4:42 AM, Sanders, Rob M. wrote: > > > > > Warren, > > > I've done the hugetbl/hugepages mods a couple of times on a PS3 > > > without > > > having any problems. The last time was with Fedora 7 (needed to > > > play with > > > SDK3.0). I didn't use the kernel from the cell addon, but one from > > > Geoff's > > > page (don't have the link handy, but should be google-able [is that > > > a word?]). > > > Did you make a new initrd image from your new kernel? It sounded > > > like you > > > didn't from your email. I don't know if that would make a huge > > > difference or > > > not, I don't normally make an initrd when booting my G5, but it > > > seems most > > > of the x86 distro's I've used and the PS3 use it. > > > > > > Rob > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on > > > behalf of Warren Nagourney > > > Sent: Wed 11/14/2007 10:53 PM > > > To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics > > > Subject: [ydl-gen] Kernel hacking > > > > > > For a number of reasons, I have gone into the kernel hacking business > > > in YDL 5.02 on a PS3 and started by taking the 2.6.23 kernel (from > > > the most recent CELL linux ADDON iso) and compiling it, following the > > > instructions in the Cell Performance article on making huge pages. I > > > made the appropriate changes in the kboot.conf file to reflect the > > > new kernel and tried to boot. SInce this is my first attempt at > > > kernel manufacture, I was not surprised that it didn't work: I got an > > > error message "switchroot: mount failed" and a kernel panic. > > > > > > I looked at the init file in the initrd image and compared it to the > > > one in the initrd for a working kernel: they were identical (not > > > surprising, since the same mkinitrd was probably used for both). Does > > > anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. > > > > > > Warren Nagourney > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > > > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > > > > > <winmail.dat> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > > > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-general mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > > > > > -- > Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk > http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm > PhD Student @ ECS > University of Southampton, UK > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > -- Paulo Jorge Matos - pocm at soton.ac.uk http://www.personal.soton.ac.uk/pocm PhD Student @ ECS University of Southampton, UK _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
