On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 23:51 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> As for the building your own kernel thing... I've been doing my work >> mainly on a pair of x86_64 systems, one a ThinkPad T61 running Fedora >> 13, and the other an HP xw4400 workstation running RHEL6. In both >> cases, I copied a distro kernel's, config file out of /boot/, and then >> ran make oldconfig over it and build straight from what's in my tree, >> which works well enough on both setups. > > I pulled the config out of the kernel*.src.rpm after 'rpmbuild -bp' (I > only saw the configs in /boot after doing that :P ), and then ran 'make > oldconfig'. > > The first time around I forgot to do a modules_install and the ext[234] > modules weren't in the initramfs. That made it hard for the kernel to > read the /boot and / filesystems. ;) > > After fixing that idiocy, it now hangs in early boot - just a blinking > cursor. I'm speculating it is a problem with support for my old-ish ATI > Radeon Xpress 200 video chipset with a vanilla kernel. I'll work it out > eventually. Seems you've already gotten around this, but it did remind me of someone on one of the fedora mailing lists who said w/their older radeon hardware, they could only boot recent kernels if the passed in nomodeset=1 or something like that. >> > I'll have time on Thursday night to try again. >> >> No rush yet, we've got a while before the merge window still. >> Christoph (Bartelmus) helped me out with a bunch of ioctl >> documentation this weekend, so I've got that to add to the tree, then >> I think I'll be prepared to resubmit the lirc bits. I'll shoot for >> doing that next weekend, and hopefully, that'll give you a chance to >> try 'em out before then and provide any necessary feedback/fixes/etc. >> (Not that we can't also just fix things up as needed post-merge). I'm >> still up in the air as to what I should work on next... So many lirc >> drivers left to port still... Maybe zilog, maybe streamzap... Maybe >> the MCE IR keyboard... > > I've got a PVR-150 and HVR-1600 both with the Zilog Z8's on them. If I > ever get my act together, I'll at least be able to test that and > integrate any changes into the ivtv & cx18 drivers. I've recently seen > users having trouble on IRC, BTW. Yeah, me too. Hoping to dig into porting (and fixing) lirc_zilog RSN... -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
