[LinuxBIOS] Complete and generic 32bit/64bit support

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Thu Nov 22 05:08:05 CET 2007


On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 07:51:34PM -0800, yhlu wrote:
> this afternoon, played a while linuxbios + tiny kernel on l1_2pvv.
> find something interesting.
> 
> vmlinux 2.6.18.1 in buildrom
> A. built from on my laptop with opensuse 10.3 64bit
> B. built from my workstation with Suse 10.0 pro 64bit
> 
> A is much bigger than B, Also A doesn't work mkelfImage + LinuxBIOS,
> but B work with mkelfImage + LinuxBIOS
> 
> then I tried 2.6.24-rc3 from git, it works with A and B.
> 
> maybe some gcc default setting difference about stack checking cause that.
> 
> BTW, what is the kernel version in LAB now?

The non-geode boards seem to be at 2.6.22.2 (plus corresponding tiny
patches); the geode boards have KERNEL_VERSION set to 2.6.20.2 but I don't
know how recently LAB has been tested on those.

Looks like the last Linux-Tiny patch set is for 2.6.23.

Thanks,
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator




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