Hello everyone. I am working on Debian Sid AMD64. I downloaded and uncompressed the unstable version of Xen, took the patches inside xen-unstable/patches/linux-2.6.16.29 and tried to apply all of them to a pristine Linux kernel 2.6.16.29. Two problems I found:
1. The patch "x86-elfnote-as-preprocessor-macro.patch" produced this error: The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |diff -pruN ../orig-linux-2.6.16.29/include/linux/elfnote.h ./include/linux/elfnote.h |--- ../orig-linux-2.6.16.29/include/linux/elfnote.h 2006-09-19 14:06:10.000000000 +0100 |+++ ./include/linux/elfnote.h 2006-09-19 14:06:20.000000000 +0100 -------------------------- File to patch: So, I skipped the patch. Then I tried to "make menuconfig" in the kernel, but I could not find the expected option "Enable Xen compatible kernel" under "Processor type and features". The "Xen" group of options was not present either. What I am trying to do is to test the upcoming new stable release on a pristine kernel on my Debian, with my custom configuration (I don't use any modules in the kernel, for instance). I want to compile the kernel using the Debian's kernel-package tools thus producing a .deb package. Could someone please tell me what I am missing or point me to some docs or scripts where I could find out the right way to patch the kernel? Thanks in advance. P.S. So far, I compiled xen-unstable (I let the scripts do their work). Once it ended, I used the linux-2.6.16.29-xen directory that was created and copied my .config there. Then make-kpkg clean && make-kpkg kernel-image and I got what I wanted, but I'd really like to know how it works. -- Jaume Sabater http://linuxsilo.net/ "Ubi sapientas ibi libertas" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
