[Pkg-uml-devel] preparing u-m-l 2.6.17

[Ardo van Rangelrooij]

Mattia Dongili (malattia at linux.it) wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:30:44AM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:
> [...]
> > > Now, starting with config.i386 and changing the host processor type may
> > > be probably enough, but giving it a real run is better yet :)
> > 
> > I simply copied the config and left all the options as is for now.
> > 
> > This is the diff I got with 2.6.16-2:
> > 
> > > diff config.amd64 config.i386
> 
> argh :) please use "-u" it makes the thing a lot more readable.

Oops! Sorry about that.  The java hadn't kicked in yet...

> > 4c4
> > < # Tue Jun 27 21:19:16 2006
> > ---
> > > # Wed May 31 18:05:17 2006
> > 17a18,56
> > > 
> > > #
> > > # Host processor type and features
> > > #
> > > # CONFIG_M386 is not set
> > > CONFIG_M486=y
> [...]
> > > # CONFIG_MK8 is not set
> 
> you'll probably need this one set to Y instead of M486

But it config.amd64 it's not set at all.  Instead CONFIG_64BIT=y is set.

> [...]
> > 22,29c60,66
> > < CONFIG_TOP_ADDR=0x80000000
> ...
> > ---
> > > CONFIG_TOP_ADDR=0xc0000000
> 
> and I'm a bit worried about this one, see #366915:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=366915

Ok.

> > I build the package and also rootstrap, and installed both packages.  I got
> 
> Oops! we need to extend also the rootstrap's Architecture field :)
> (and uml-run as soon as somebody will work on it).

Got that covered also.

> > numerous warnings from the kernel but not having build this before for all
> 
> yes, there are many gcc warnings (possibly uninitialized variables
> expecially) and some "section mismatch", don't worry too much about
> them.

Ok, but I do hope that's going to be cleaned-up at some point...

> > Tomorrow I'll build an image after I've got the networking setup.  The first
> > image build of course got stuck on that.
> 
> Great, thanks again!
> I'll be away from my laptop in the next 2 days, will be back on saturday
> morning.

I've got the networking setup and tried to build an image with rootstrap.  It
downloaded the packages but then I got:

    I: Extracting tzdata...
    I: Extracting util-linux...
    I: Extracting zlib1g...
    /usr/lib/rootstrap/modules/debian: line 37:   709 Segmentation fault      debootstrap $opts $dist $TARGET $mirror $script
    sh-3.1# 

A retry gives the same result.  But at least we've got something going! :-)

I'll move to 2.6.17 on Saturday and try again.

Thanks,
Ardo
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