On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Francois Chenais wrote:
> what's the best way to add XFS support in the Linux 2.4.20 kernel ?
> Can I use the kernel-patch-xfs or do it by myself using tools from sgi ?
The easy way is to use the kernel-patch-xfs (in testing for 2.4.20 now), I
think.
Last time I build 2.4.20 that was not available and I used the kernel
source from SGI's cvs. That was also quite easy to build. Here's my
notes. I had a few questions about lm_sensors, but it all seems to work.
Building 2.4.20-xfs from CGI cvs sources
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Get 2.4 kernel source directly from SGI via cvs:
$ cd /usr/src
$ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs login
cvs (is password)
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs checkout linux-2.4-xfs
$ rm linux
$ ln -s linux-2.4-xfs/linux
Now apply i2c and lm_sensors patches. There's some question if I need to
update i2c for 2.4.20, but I'll patch anyway.
$ cd ~/build/i2c-2.7.0/
$ mkpatch/mkpatch.pl . /usr/src/linux | patch -p1 -E -d /usr/src/linux
$ cd ../lm_sensors-2.7.0/
$ mkpatch/mkpatch.pl . /usr/src/linux | patch -p1 -E -d /usr/src/linux
$ cd /usr/src/linux
$ make menuconfig
I import from the current /boot/config file
Character Devices -> Hardware sensors support ->
<M> VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors (NEW)
(although sensors-detect and lspci says VT8233 - is that i2c-viapro? )
Try and compile and see if viapro is build...
Set the extraversion for this kernel
$ nano Makefile
EXTRAVERSION = -xfs-athlon
(can also use --append_to_version flag to make-kpkg
Now, build the kernel
$ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.1 kernel_image
(8 minutes!)
$ cd ../linux-2.4-xfs
$ su
# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.20-xfs-athlon_custom.1.0_i386.deb
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