Real Time Clock

2013-04-26 Thread Joseph Parmelee
help me find this. Can someone list the conditions (if any) under which the kernel changes the RTC under its own volition? (As opposed to a specific instruction from user space, like an ioctl). Best regards, Joseph Parmelee jpar m ele at wild b ear dot c o m. Thanks very much. -- To unsubscribe

Re: Binutils test suite freezes kernel

2012-11-29 Thread Joseph Parmelee
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Andi Kleen wrote: Joseph Parmelee writes: Greetings: The gas test suite in recent binutils snapshots from ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots/ consistently freezes my i386 custom-built kernels. This may be a kernel configuration problem but if so it has

Binutils test suite freezes kernel

2012-11-07 Thread Joseph Parmelee
Greetings: The gas test suite in recent binutils snapshots from ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots/ consistently freezes my i386 custom-built kernels. This may be a kernel configuration problem but if so it has manifested only recently. I have been building kernels since 1995 and this

Re: Old version of lilo fails to boot 2.6.23

2007-10-26 Thread Joseph Parmelee
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: [Ancient LILO boot problem] Joseph, could you try this patch on your ancient-LILO setup? Actually, please try this one instead. -hpa This patch will work in my particular case, though it appears to violate the

Old version of lilo fails to boot 2.6.23

2007-10-16 Thread Joseph Parmelee
Greetings: I upgraded to version 2.6.23 and had a fun time figuring out the source of this boot failure message on my x86 system: This kernel requires an i86 CPU, but only detected an i86 CPU. It turns out that my version of lilo (lilo -V gives version 21) doesn't set up the stack and data