Tried to run 2.6.0-test1

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On Red Hat 9 without Qt, make xconfig wouldn't run.
Make menuconfig ran. Compilation ran.
During make modules_install, there were warnings about undefined symbols for a bunch of wireless LAN card modules. But at least the thing ran.
It boots, it keeps the screen nearly blank during booting, then X comes up and the thing runs.
During shutdown, the screen returns to the same nearly blank display that it had during booting. I have to guess when it's safe to shut off the power. But in between startup and shutdown, it runs. On Red Hat 9.

Then I moved to SuSE 8.1 and tried configuring a few more options.

On SuSE 8.1, make xconfig ran. Just before the xconfig windows appeared, these warnings appeared in the terminal window:
./scripts/kconfig/qconf arch/i386/Kconfig
boolean symbol BINFMT_ZFLAT tested for 'm'? test forced to 'n' #

  # using defaults found in arch/i386/defconfig
  #
  arch/i386/defconfig:68: trying to assign nonexistent symbol X86_SSE2
  arch/i386/defconfig:544: trying to assign nonexistent symbol NET_PCMCIA_RADIO
  arch/i386/defconfig:663: trying to assign nonexistent symbol INTEL_RNG
Maybe one of these provides a clue about wireless LAN card modules.

Compilation starts, but this is weird:
AS arch/i386/boot/setup.o
/tmp/ccZht1mp.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccZht1mp.s:1903: Warning: value 0x37ffffff truncated to 0x37ffffff
That's some truncation, eh?

These look troublesome though:
CC [M] drivers/mtd/nftlcore.o
drivers/mtd/nftlcore.c: In function `NFTL_foldchain':
drivers/mtd/nftlcore.c:354: warning: passing arg 7 of pointer to function
makes pointer from integer without a cast
drivers/mtd/nftlcore.c:358: warning: passing arg 7 of pointer to function
makes pointer from integer without a cast
drivers/mtd/nftlcore.c:363: warning: passing arg 7 of pointer to function
makes pointer from integer without a cast
drivers/mtd/nftlcore.c: In function `nftl_writeblock':
drivers/mtd/nftlcore.c:632: warning: passing arg 7 of pointer to function
makes pointer from integer without a cast
drivers/mtd/nftlcore.c: In function `nftl_readblock':
drivers/mtd/nftlcore.c:696: warning: passing arg 7 of pointer to function
makes pointer from integer without a cast
CC [M] drivers/mtd/nftlmount.o
drivers/mtd/nftlmount.c: In function `find_boot_record':
drivers/mtd/nftlmount.c:220: warning: passing arg 7 of pointer to function
makes pointer from integer without a cast

Oh, and then compilation of modules aborts:

    CC [M]  drivers/mtd/devices/doc2000.o

drivers/mtd/devices/doc2000.c: In function `DoC2k_init':
drivers/mtd/devices/doc2000.c:567: warning: assignment from incompatible
pointer type
drivers/mtd/devices/doc2000.c:568: warning: assignment from incompatible
pointer type
CC [M] drivers/mtd/devices/docprobe.o
CC [M] drivers/mtd/devices/docecc.o
CC [M] drivers/mtd/devices/slram.o
CC [M] drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.o
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:52:25: linux/iobuf.h: No such file or directory drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function `blkmtd_readpage':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:219: warning: implicit declaration of function
`alloc_kiovec'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:236: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:239: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:240: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:241: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:242: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:243: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:265: warning: implicit declaration of function
`brw_kiovec'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:267: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:268: warning: implicit declaration of function
`free_kiovec'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:169: warning: unused variable b' drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function write_queue_task':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:323: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:351: `KIO_MAX_SECTORS' undeclared (first use
in this function)
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:351: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
only once
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:351: for each function it appears in.) drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:369: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:370: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:382: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:384: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:392: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:393: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:407: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function `blkmtd_erase':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:527: warning: unused variable b' drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function blkmtd_read':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:640: warning: unused variable b' drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function blkmtd_write':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:713: parse error before "e3" drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:712: warning: unused variable `b' drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: At top level:
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:932: parse error before "cleanup_blkmtd" drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:933: warning: return type defaults to int' drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1021: parse error before "calc_erase_regions" drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1022: warning: return type defaults to int' drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1047: parse error before "__init" drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1047: warning: type defaults to `int' in
declaration of `__init'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1047: warning: data definition has no type
or storage class
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1050: parse error before "init_blkmtd" drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1051: warning: return type defaults to int' drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: In function init_blkmtd':
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1199: structure has no member named module' drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1060: warning: unused variable b' drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c: At top level:
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1269: warning: type defaults to `int' in
declaration of `module_init'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1269: warning: parameter names (without
types) in function declaration
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1269: warning: data definition has no type
or storage class
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1270: warning: type defaults to `int' in
declaration of `module_exit'
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1270: warning: parameter names (without
types) in function declaration
drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c:1270: warning: data definition has no type
or storage class
make[3]: *** [drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [drivers/mtd/devices] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/mtd] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2

OK, I made menuconfig again and removed some MTD stuff. It made but it wouldn't boot. The screen was blank for the entire boot process (after grub selected the kernel to boot). After a while I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del and rebooted my old kernel. /var/log/messages includes this:

  Jul 20 22:10:20 diamondpana kernel: Loaded 28312 symbols from
    /boot/System.map-2.6.0-test1.
  Jul 20 22:10:20 diamondpana kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.0.
  Jul 20 22:10:20 diamondpana kernel: No module symbols loaded -
    kernel modules not enabled.

Huh??? What about these lines in .config:
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y
CONFIG_OBSOLETE_MODPARM=y
# CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set
CONFIG_KMOD=y
And this output to ls /lib/modules/2.6.0-test1:

  build        modules.generic_string  modules.parportmap  modules.usbmap
  kernel       modules.ieee1394map     modules.pcimap
  modules.dep  modules.isapnpmap       modules.pnpbiosmap

What does the thing need in order to use modules?
Is this the reason why the screen is completely blank during the boot process instead of only mostly blank? Is it the reason why X doesn't come up? By the way there are also no tones from PCMCIA during the boot process so I'm pretty sure it's also not recognizing my LAN card, but when I reboot my old kernel then PCMCIA recognizes the LAN card just fine during booting.

Oh... the README says:
- Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available.
Unfortunately I only have gcc 3.2 available. Sigh. But I think that was the same on Red Hat 9, probably.

So what does the thing need in order to recognize its modules?

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/people/rusty/modules/

And read http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt for all the OTHER stuff you might need...

The 'no tones' confused me too. In 'make menuconfig', go to 'Input Device support', select 'Misc' - this will add an entry 'PC Speaker Support'. Check that, it will add CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR which should make the beeps return.

If you hit other snags, *read the post-halloween file*. Most of the gotchas are in there already. If you do what that says, and it STILL doesn't work, feel free to post again - the whole point of the -testX series is so we can find all the remaining gotchas and either fix or workaround them.

[email protected] replied to me. I'm sending this personally and to the list. Again I can't keep up with the list, so if Mr./Ms. Kletnieks or anyone else has further advice or questions, please contact me directly.

550 /pub/linux/kernel/people/people/rusty/modules/: No such file or directory

Oh I see, two many people. After fixing that, I see a list of module-init-tools. Hmm, modutils-2.4.21-18.src.rpm is indeed newer than SuSE 8.1. Downloading it now and will try it after sleeping.

I guess it's just luck that Red Hat 9 had a sufficiently new modutils.

DNS error.

I have it configured as a module. I guess it will be fixed automatically when modules start working.

All except the DNS error, which came up again while I was checking out the rest of this. I don't think post-halloween will get here tonight.

http://lwn.net/Articles/39901/

2003-07-20, v keltezéssel Norman Diamond ezt írta:

http://portal.fsn.hu/old/post-halloween/post-halloween-2.5.txt

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Again I cannot keep up with the mailing list. If anyone wishes to advise or has questions, please kindly contact me directly.

1. Trying to upgrade modutils.

I've downloaded modutils-2.4.21-18.src.rpm from Rusty Russell's directory on ftp.kernel.org. Not being an rpm expert, I tried "rpm --rebuild" on it. The compilation steps assume -mcpu=i686. I need to specify that the cpu is an i586.

"man rpm" and "info rpm" both say that arch-vendor-os can be designated, but -march=i486 is already fine with me, the problem is the cpu not the arch. I'm not sure what it would mean to try specifying a vendor (Intel) or OS (Linux). There seems to be no way to specify the cpu in "rpm --rebuild".

I also tried rpm -ivh and finally found where three files got installed to. Two gzipped tarballs and one spec file. The spec file doesn't specify the cpu, as far as I can tell.

Odds are I can probably gunzip and tar and compile the new modutils, but will the resulting executables get installed into the right places without using the rpm command and its spec file, I'm not sure I want to chance it.

My .config file for the kernel sources correctly designates the cpu as an i586mmx, but I guess modutils shouldn't be expected to guess which kernel sources to find and extract the cpu type from it.

2. Blank screen during/after boot.

Two people recommended alternative locations for the "post-halloween" document and I got one.

It has. The screen is still blank after decompressing the kernel. In SuSE 8.1 the screen goes completely blank and never recovers. In Red Hat the screen continues displaying the message about decompressing the kernel but freezes there until X comes up, and then returns to that same frozen text screen during shutdown, so I have to guess when it's OK to turn off the power.