Yes,I have access to the CD that has Montavista's kernel(2.4.2) on it. Manoj > -----Original Message----- > From: Pete Popov [mailto:ppopov@pacbell.net] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:47 AM > To: Matthew Dharm > Cc: linux-mips; Manoj Ekbote > Subject: Re: Help with OOPSes, anyone? > > > On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 22:18, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > Do you know who, precisely, got the CD? I'm going to try > to chase this > > down, but exact names would be helpful. > > I believe Manoj has access to it and I added him to the CC without > asking ;-) > > > Also, when you push that material out to the community, > when did you do > > that? That is, if your work is 2.4.2-based, is it > reasonable to assume > > that 2.4.2 or 2.4.3 in the CVS repository will work? > > No, not necessarily. Sometimes I push out patches for new > boards even > if the support is not fully baked yet. But typically I wait until I've > got something useful going. That means that the work might have been > done locally, on a 2.4.2 snapshot, and submitted once it was stable. > However, oss might have been up to 2.4.5 at that point; that, and > whatever delay is introduced because Ralf is too busy to immediately > apply the patches means that a MontaVista 2.4.2 based release does not > necessarily equal oss 2.4.2. > > > Or do you take a more "fire and forget" sort of approach? > > I'm not sure what you mean by that. Hopefully the above is clear > enough. > > Pete > > > Matthew Dharm > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 06:29:22PM -0800, Pete Popov wrote: > > > > > > > And 2.4.17 with the wait instruction turned off still crashes. > > > > > > > The Montavista kernel (which claims to be 2.4.0 #5 > build by jsun) > > > > seems to work... > > > > > > Strange, that must have been some interim build Jun did. > > > > > > > I've done several recompiles on it, and lots of I/O > > > > traffic with no problems. Unfortunatly, I don't have > the source code > > > > to this particular kernel... tho I believe that > Montavista is required > > > > to release their source cod by the GPL. > > > > > > All of the open source work we do we push out to the > community tree > > > immediately. That's a rule we live by and there's no > exceptions. The Ocelot > > > code was pushed out back then. Since then I've seen lots > of additions to that > > > directory and obviously something got broke. > > > > > > QED did receive an Alliance CD with the Ocelot LSP on it, > so they should > > > be able to provide you with a copy of the cdimage, including the > > > source. But the kernel will be 2.4.2 based though -- I > don't know where > > > the 2.4.0 came from. > > > > > > > Tho here's a question: What is the best compiler to > build a kernel > > > > with? I've built all mine with egcs-2.91.66 which I > downloaded from > > > > oss.sgi.com a while ago. > > > > > > MontaVista's, but I'm biased ;-) The toolchain will be > on the CD as > > > well. > > > > > > Pete > > > > > > > -- > > Matthew Dharm Work: mdharm@momenco.com > > Senior Software Designer, Momentum Computer > > > >
