On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 07:15, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:29:25PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > Just yesterday I grabbed a plain 2.6.8-rc1 kernel > > from www.kernel.org/pub/linux/ and it works great > > on my Mac Cube. Perhaps you should try that. > > And what about kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc ? Does it work fine also ? And > if not did you fill a bug report. If yes, what motivated you to build > your own kernel over using the debian provided one ? I never trust distribution-provided kernels. They are often full of questionable patches, obsolete, and way too generic for my taste. They might not even use the larger 12x22 console font. The 2.6.7 kernel is certainly obsolete now that 2.6.8-rc1 is out. :-) I'm only half kidding; the newer kernel has lots of nice fixes and isn't generating lots of bug reports. I built a kernel that supports my hardware and little else, without modules. The hardest part is identifying weird Mac hardware. For example, I might not need any of these for my Mac Cube: CONFIG_ADB_PMU Support for PMU based PowerMacs CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK Power management support for PowerBooks CONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT Backlight control for LCD screens CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY Sequencer dummy client CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV /dev/hiddev raw HID device support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI Generic PCI bus-master DMA support CONFIG_LLC2 ANSI/IEEE 802.2 LLC type 2 Support CONFIG_SERIO Serial i/o support (tell me if you know) I also don't know if I2C would be useful to me. I enabled just enough to see that I have 2 buses. I know exactly where my kernel is, and exactly where it came from: make menuconfig make vmlinux mv System.map-2.6.8-rc1 /boot mv vmlinux-2.6.8-rc1 /boot cp config-2.6.8-rc1 /boot joe /etc/yaboot.conf ybin See also "make oldconfig" if you have an old kernel config you'd like to use. I did that before "make menuconfig" because I had an old config file that I could copy to .config to get me started.
