Kernel 2.6.23

gjohnson5 tonyjohn5 at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 11 22:51:23 UTC 2007


The kernel builds succeed.
Adding kmods to this kernel fail due to arch mismatch

[gjohnson at localhost ~]$ rpmbuild --rebuild
madwifi-kmod-0.9.3.1-2.2.6.22.4_65.fc7.src.rpm
Installing madwifi-kmod-0.9.3.1-2.2.6.22.4_65.fc7.src.rpm
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
error: Architecture is not included: i386   <--------------------------- 
arch mismatch
[gjohnson at localhost ~]$ rpmbuild --rebuild
nvidia-kmod-100.14.11-1.2.6.22.4_65.fc7.src.rpm
Installing nvidia-kmod-100.14.11-1.2.6.22.4_65.fc7.src.rpm
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
error: Architecture is not included: i386  <-------------------------  arch
mismatch

I'll have to see if I can find ones that work.  
But I think one problem is that these are expecting an i686 kernel.
So things are changing (not sure what) but things a are definitely in a
state of flux
[gjohnson at localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23-0.170.rc5.git1.GAJ3 #1 SMP Tue Sep 11
02:02:51 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[gjohnson at localhost ~]$   

Christopher Brown-10 wrote:
> 
> On 11/09/2007, gjohnson5 <tonyjohn5 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> And I wish I had full understanding of where this is going.  With the new
>> kernels follow the document for building a custom kernel
>>
>> 1. su -c 'yum-builddep kernel-2.6.23-0.171.rc5.git1.fc8.src.rpm'
>> 2. rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.23-0.171.rc5.git1.fc8.src.rpm
>> 3. rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 (or `uname -m`)
>> kernel-2.6.23-0.171.rc5.git1.fc8.src.rpm
>> go to source tree
>> 4. cd /home/gjohnson/rpmbuild/BUILD/kernel-2.6.22/linux-2.6.22.i686
>> /configs
>> 5.  head the config file
>> [gjohnson at localhost configs]$ head kernel-2.6.23-i686-PAE.config
>> # i386  <------------------  (Here's the issue)
>>
> 
> Why is that an issue? That is the optimization flag for gcc. Is your build
> failing for some reason?
> 
> Chris
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