Re: [suse-sparc] Suse 7.0: Problems with kernel configuration and compilation

From: Guenter Schaefer (schaefer@ee.tu-berlin.de)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 04:03:13 PST

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    Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:03:13 +0100
    From: Guenter Schaefer <schaefer@ee.tu-berlin.de>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Suse 7.0: Problems with kernel configuration and compilation
    

    Dear Joshua,

    > Yes... for this one, there's a bug in the makefile. You can
    > either fix the Makefile (which I can make a simple patch for)...
    > or run "sparc32 make menuconfig"... when it loads up, exit it,
    > and then run "make menuconfig" (without the "sparc32".

    thanks a lot for your help, it worked fine. :o)

    > I'm assuming the problem with the kernel you built is that you
    > didn't build in the proper fb support.

    That's right, with the menuconfig it was quite easy to configure this
    correctly.

    > There should be the configuration file as /boot/vmlinuz.config...

    Nope, but I somehow managed to choose the right driver, anyway.

    > also, you mentioned it being "twice the size"... that's because
    > you're building an uncompressed kernel... SuSE ships it's kernel
    > compressed.

    BTW, how can I build a compressed kernel on sparc? Neither
    "make zImage" nor "make bzImage" work (no rule to make ...) on
    my standard Suse 7.0 for Sparc (that's not too important for
    me, but I would like to understand this, if you happen to know
    something about it).

    Thanks again for your help, with kind regards,

    Guenter Schaefer

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