Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Bellussi Giorgio wrote: > > > Question 1. > > Suse and Turbolinux distributions are supported only on G5 or G6 machines > > (unlike intel flavours, which should work also with ancient 386!). > > Does Red Hat for s390 will have the same limitations? > > At the moment, yes. We don't have older machines to test on. > > > lcs.o (the network driver for "lan channel stations" like 3172) is still > > distributed as OCO (Object Code Only) also under SRPMS directory. Is it > > permitted by GPL license? > > Unfortunately we don't have the source. The package in SRPMS is just the > binary along with instructions on where to install it and similar stuff. > Our parts (the spec file - basically a script that copies things where > they belong) are GPLed. > > > (the true question is: there will be some way to be sure the instructions of > > lcs.o are supported by pre G4 cpu?) > > Not unless you convince IBM to release the source. > > > BTW: I found a 2.2.15 kernel hacked for pre G3 machines. > > Where? If the patch doesn't break anything else, I'd like to include it. The hacked kernel 2.2.15 and patches can be found at http://penguinvm.princeton.edu/programs/vintage/ Sorry, I haven't yet the time (and perhaps the skill) to test the patch on a newer version of kernel... > > > > I tried to IPL it and > > it worked fine (unlike Marist and SUSE, which hang at dasd initialization) until > > the step of network setup. > > What needs to be done for network setup on a G3? Nothing particular has to be done to setup network on a G3, just reply to some answer as for other Gx. I think that the true problem is: I haven't enough skill about 3172 and I haven't found enough documentation on how to configure 3172 to linux390. People at marist wrote: "No problem 3172's support the lcs channel protocol just like osa devices"... (and no more...) Unfortunately the plain marist kernel (and the SUSE too), that I suppose ready for lcs, hangs after the message "loop: registered device at major 7" and before any "dasd: initializing". Instead, trying vintage 2.2.15 (the one I said before) + the marist "initrd", the ipl ran fine until the step "Finding module dependencies", which gives "/lib/modules/2.2.15/net/lcs.o: unresolved symbol(s)" (BTW ... the symbol is "tqueue_lock"). Now I outlined my situation completely, and I think it is clear that I cannot test lcs anyway. Any help will be appreciated. Giorgio
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