linux bios kernel for m758lmr+

Andrew Ip aip at cwlinux.com
Thu Nov 7 09:19:00 CET 2002


You can try our LinuxBIOS ready kernel.
ftp://ftp.cwlinux.com/pub/downloads/kernel/2.4.19/kernel-source-linuxbios-2.4.19-CWLINUX_4.i386.rpm

It has integrated with sis patch, kexec plue others patches.

-Andrew

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:23:36AM -0800, James Alton wrote:
> ron,
> 
> Ok. I am going to try 2.4.19 this time round. Updating
> freebios/linuxbios as I type this with cvs update -P.
> 
> 1. tar -xvf linux-2.4.19.tar (linux kernel is now installed at
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.19)
> 2. mv linux-2.4.19 linux   (to satisfy all the scripts that require
> this)
> 3. cd linux; cp
> /home/jalton/freebios/src/kernel_patches/linux-2.4.19-sis.patch .; cp
> /home/jalton/freebios/src/kernel_patches/config-2.4.19-sis .config;
> 4. (still in /usr/src/linux) patch -p1 < linux-2.4.19-sis.patch
> 5. (patches scroll by, no errors listed)
> 6. make menuconfig (I enter this, don't change anything, and say save
> changes. To satisfy autoconf makefile stuffs)
> 7. make dep && make bzImage
> 
> a few minutes later... 
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
> ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext
> arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o
> init/version.o init/do_mounts.o \
>         --start-group \
>         arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o
> mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \
>          drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o
> drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o
> drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o
> drivers/video/video.o \
>         net/network.o \
>         /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a
> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \
>         --end-group \
>         -o vmlinux
> drivers/video/video.o(.data+0x1bd4): undefined reference to `local
> symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> 
> I'm not sure why it is discarding local symbols or what, but whatever I
> do, I can't seem to debug it. (I've checked the actual video.o objdumb
> .text.exit section, not much help. I've checked the actual code itself,
> not much help.) It brings this error message up before the final, get
> all object files and put them into vmlinux stage.
> 
> Someone told me it might be the util-linux package, which I have version
> 2.11r-10 of. (It came from RPM binary form) I'm not sure if this is true
> or what.
> 
> Thanks for all your help so far.
> 
> - James Alton
> - jalton at olsh.cx
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 20:15, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> > send me your output from the compile.
> > 
> > ron
> 
> 
> 
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