Re: cross compile kernel with deb-pkg

2012-06-08 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 06.06.2012 01:08, schrieb Marcus Osdoba: Recently I tried to cross compile a kernel (package) with "make ARCH= CROSS_COMPILE=- deb-pkg That worked well for 2.6.32 kernels from squeeze. But the 3.2 kernels from wheezy/backports fail with: [..] Since cross compiling (pacakges) is pos

Re: booting rootfs with linux-image-vexpress in qemu 1.0~ from harddisk image

2012-06-08 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 04.06.2012 23:30, schrieb Arnaud Patard (Rtp): One should never draw conclusions in bug reports, but when browsing the kernel config posted for the original vexpress wish (#670462), there is an nfsrootfs configured in CMDLINE option. So I guess the requestor checked that with a rootfs over net

cross compile kernel with deb-pkg

2012-06-05 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Hello, Recently I tried to cross compile a kernel (package) with "make ARCH= CROSS_COMPILE=- deb-pkg That worked well for 2.6.32 kernels from squeeze. But the 3.2 kernels from wheezy/backports fail with: dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'powerpc|armel' does not appear in p

booting rootfs with linux-image-vexpress in qemu 1.0~ from harddisk image

2012-06-04 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Hello Mailinglist, I'm not sure, if this is worth a bug report, but recnetly I tried to boot a multistrapped wheezy armhf system in qemu from squeeze-backports. The qemu command line included the -hda option but the vexpress kernel wasn't able to find /dev/sda or /dev/hda. The system droppe

Bug#670492: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: RTL8111/8168B Wake on LAN does not work

2012-05-15 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Hi, I encountered the same problem with one of the last 3.2 kernels from backports on my squeeze server installation (node B). The system has two rtl interfaces - a gigabit on board and a 100Mbit as PCI card. r8169 :03:00.0: eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xc960e000, 00:18:f3:21:XX:YY,

Re: Outdated linux-2.6 backport

2012-01-24 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 24.01.2012 16:00, schrieb Ben Hutchings: On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 13:41 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 08:16 +0100, Marcus Osdoba wrote: I have found linux-2.6 in the bpo upload Q today. Thanks for this. Please keep cpufrequtils-007-2 for kernels>= 3.0 in mind. I w

Bug#654598: Please enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP

2012-01-22 Thread Marcus Osdoba
I guess this is done since 3.0.0~rc1-1~experimental.1 ? linux-2.6 (3.0.0~rc1-1~experimental.1) experimental; urgency=low * cgroups: Disable memory resource controller by default. Allow it to be enabled using kernel parameter 'cgroup_enable=memory'. [...] * cgroups: Enable CGROUP_MEM_RES_

Re: Outdated linux-2.6 backport

2012-01-22 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 18.01.2012 04:42, schrieb Ben Hutchings: cpufrequtils (007-2) A separate build-container for each architecture was used to be sure, that there are only stable packages installed. I reverted the compiler back to gcc 4.4. Cpufrequtils is needed for newer kernels to have the cpufreq modules work

Re: Outdated linux-2.6 backport

2012-01-22 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 18.01.2012 05:05, schrieb Ben Hutchings: On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 03:42 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 00:40 +0100, Marcus Osdoba wrote: [...] Now that I finished with building up [...] linux-image-3.1.0-1-486_3.1.8-2~bpo60+1_i386.deb This is wrong; modules built for

Re: Outdated linux-2.6 backport

2012-01-17 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 19.10.2011 15:05, schrieb Ben Hutchings: Please keep linux-2.6 up-to-date in backports [..] Hello debian kernel maintainers, I've created a private backport of kernel 3.1.8 from testing for i386/amd64. The packages I considered are: linux-image-amd64 linux-image-i386-686-pae linux-image-i

Re: [Fwd: Latest kernel stable/longterm status]

2012-01-10 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 10.01.2012 02:42, schrieb Ben Hutchings: We need to make a decision soon on whether we will use Linux 3.2 for wheezy or wait for a later release. Whichever one we choose, we need to make sure someone (possibly one of us) maintains a longterm branch for it. I am strongly disinclined to choose

Bug#468114: Please apply the loopbackfs patch

2011-11-30 Thread Marcus Osdoba
The loopback is not only suitable for installing on a windows FS. I use it to put an ext3 image on a vfat sd card in my Wii, since homebrew apps are only able to handle vfat. So I'm not forced to change the sdcard or partition it. http://gitorious.org/dockstar/emdebian-multistrap/blobs/master/

Bug#649211: Boot failure on Thinkpad X40

2011-11-27 Thread Marcus Osdoba
@Jonathan: Thanks for the hint. @Ben: Take my excuses, I didn't notice the cloning step. This bug could be marked as a duplicate of bug#637395. I installed cpufreq-utils 007-2 from testing and the problems went away. The kernel itself booted fine, so I won't send the output of the netconsole.

re-rename Bug#649211 to its origin title - X40 cpufreq-info problems

2011-11-23 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Hi Ben, The original Bug#649211 described an issue with missing sysfs/cputopology in the 486 kernel. Since the problem still exists, I prefer to keep it open as its origin. Basically I see two solutions: The 486 kernel varaint should publish cputopology in sysfs, too. (Someday more 686 users

Bug#649211: linux-image-486: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/crash_notes and no topology

2011-11-20 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 18.11.2011 23:55, schrieb Ben Hutchings: On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:25:39PM +0100, Marcus Osdoba wrote: Package: linux-image-486 Version: 3.1.1 Severity: important Hi, I have tested virt-manager on my Debian Squeeze on several installations. Unfortunatly it does not work with 486 variant of

Bug#649211: linux-image-486: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/crash_notes and no topology

2011-11-18 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Package: linux-image-486 Version: 3.1.1 Severity: important Hi, I have tested virt-manager on my Debian Squeeze on several installations. Unfortunatly it does not work with 486 variant of the kernel [1]. When running the 686 variant, the topology is found in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/ , but not

Re: Bug#636123: kernel panic after installing 2.6.39 from backports on squeeze

2011-09-06 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 06.09.2011 06:38, schrieb Ben Hutchings: I've now tested upgrading from squeeze to squeeze-backports kernel package in a VM, with the results: # apt-get install linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-pae Fails, complaining that initramfs-tools will be broken. # apt-get install linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-pae

Re: Bug#636123: kernel panic after installing 2.6.39 from backports on squeeze

2011-08-30 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 22.08.2011 20:32, schrieb Ben Hutchings: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 06:55:12PM +0200, Valentijn Scholten wrote: I am running into a similar isue with 2.6.39.2. amd64. I decided to install 2.6.39.2 from backports (apt-get install ...) I rebooted, and got a kernel panic about not being able to f

Re: preferred solution for building kernel.deb and defining Entry point address

2011-07-14 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 13.07.2011 03:41, schrieb Ben Hutchings: On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 23:05 +0200, Marcus Osdoba wrote: Am 12.07.2011 01:43, schrieb Ben Hutchings: The commands on a recent amd64 Squeeze were: linux-src#>sudo make-kpkg --initrd --cross-compile powerpc-linux-gnu- --arch powerpc --append-to-vers

Re: preferred solution for building kernel.deb and defining Entry point address

2011-07-12 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Am 12.07.2011 01:43, schrieb Ben Hutchings: Please explain exactly how you are building the kernel with a different entry point (config changes and commands). Hi Ben, many thanks for the answer. I'm working with the debian sources on patchlevel 31 as base and applied the mikep5 patch [1]. I als

preferred solution for building kernel.deb and defining Entry point address

2011-07-11 Thread Marcus Osdoba
Hello Mailinglist, I recently experimented with building kernels based on squeeze's patchlevel. The target (Wii, a powerpc flavor) is not that important for the next question: What is the currently preferred solution for building kernel packages - make-kpkg or deb-pkg? The FAQ proposes make-