Re: Some 2.6.6 kernel questions

2004-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:30:21AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:18, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:58:21AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 07:15, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:29:25PM -0400, Albert Cahala

Re: Some 2.6.6 kernel questions

2004-07-13 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:18, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:58:21AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > 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

Re: Some 2.6.6 kernel questions

2004-07-13 Thread Luis Sanjuan
Hi, Sven On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 04:18:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:58:21AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > 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

Re: Some 2.6.6 kernel questions

2004-07-13 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Albert Cahalan writes: > > What is the file 'vmlinux.coff-*' for? > > It's junk. More precisely, COFF is an executable format understood by the OpenFirmware of some older PowerMac models. Nowadays, most PowerMacs can boot kernels in ELF file format. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fq

Re: Some 2.6.6 kernel questions

2004-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:58:21AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > 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 >

Re: Some 2.6.6 kernel questions

2004-07-13 Thread Albert Cahalan
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-

Re: Some 2.6.6 kernel questions

2004-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:29:25PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 06:40, Roland Wegmann wrote: > > > 'vmlinux-2.6.6.100704' (my kernel image) and a file 'vmlinux.coff- > > 2.6.6.100704'. What is the file 'vmlinux.coff-*' for? > > It's junk. > > > initrd=...). What are the a

Re: Some 2.6.6 kernel questions

2004-07-12 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 06:40, Roland Wegmann wrote: > 'vmlinux-2.6.6.100704' (my kernel image) and a file 'vmlinux.coff- > 2.6.6.100704'. What is the file 'vmlinux.coff-*' for? It's junk. > initrd=...). What are the advantages of initrd kernels over non-initrd > kernels? What is the function of t

Some 2.6.6 kernel questions

2004-07-11 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hi all I try to compile a 2.6.6 kernel with some patches (kernel-patch-powerpc- 2.6.6 and kernel-patch-debian-2.6.6). Until now I used 'export PATCH_THE_KERNEL=Yes', that applies all patches to the kernel (as far as I know). How can I find out the names of all the patches a kernel-patch-package c