Re: Kernel patches

[Lars-Erik Helander <lehswe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the update.
Unfortunately the latest rt-patch available is for 2.6.26.8 so I am
not able to step up to 2.6.28 yet :(.

Do you have any patches for 2.6.26.* ?

/Lars

2009/1/23  <pascal.bellard@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Salut,
>
> In slitaz diff is a link to busybox. It's not provided by diff-utils
> packages and doesn't support "-" as filename for stdin.
> The patch create a tmp file from stdin, do diff and delete the file.
> Please find attached lzma and diff patches for 2.6.28 kernel.
>
> -pascal
>
>> Salut Pascal et merci.
>>
>> Could you elaborate a bit more on 3) (the diff patch) I am not sure I
>> understand that one.
>>
>> I have been able to build my own kernel (with the rt-patches) and some
>> of the slitaz patches. So far I have excluded the lzma
>> patches and that works fine as long as I only compress the kernel with
>> gzip. I intend to include the lzma patches as well but it
>> requires some work since I am basing my kernel on 2.6.26.8.
>>
>> /Lars
>>
>> 2009/1/22  <pascal.bellard@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The package linux-source (2.6.25.5) provides 4 patchs:
>>>
>>> 1- linux-lzma-2.6.25.5.u
>>>   Add initramfs compressed with lzma support
>>>   Without this patch, you must recompress rootfs.gz with gzip:
>>>   $ lzma d rootfs.gz -so | gzip -9 > rootfs-gzipped.gz
>>>
>>> 2- linux-utf8-2.6.25.5.u
>>>   Disable utf8 charset by default.
>>>   Could by applied on many (future) linux versions.
>>>   Without this patch non ascii characters should not be well displayed
>>> in
>>>   text mode only (doesn't affect X)
>>>
>>> 3- linux-diff-2.6.25.5.u
>>>   if you are using 'busybox diff' (by default with slitaz)
>>>
>>> 4- linux-rootdev.u
>>>   Not really usefull. Set default root device.
>>>
>>> -pascal
>>>
>>>> I am going to build a kernel for slitaz that contains the rt (realtime
>>>> patch). This process involves selecting a kernel version that has an
>>>> associated rt-patch and is known to work well. The kernel version
>>>> currently used in slitaz does not match that criteria so I have to
>>>> base this kernel on another version. The "complication" for me now
>>>> becomes what slitaz specific patches do I have to apply for this
>>>> kernel to work well in the slitaz environment.
>>>>
>>>> The information I need to have is:
>>>>    - For the patches that are currently applied to create the slitaz
>>>> kernel
>>>>       - what patches do have to be applied for slitaz to work at all
>>>> and what do each of these patches do?
>>>>       - what patches are applied for some specific function to work
>>>> (still slitaz as such would work without it)?
>>>>       - what patches are applied to provide some specific
>>>> non-functional behavior (performance, security, ...)?
>>>>
>>>> I hope people in the community would be able to provide me with the
>>>> requested information so that I can go about and make a kernel that is
>>>> both rt and slitaz "conformant".
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards
>>>>
>>>> Lars
>>>>
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