Kernel 2.6.23

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 09/11/2007 07:14 PM, Mike Martin wrote:
> On 11/09/2007, gjohnson5 <tonyjohn5 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 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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> 
> I have a related wierd problem
> 
> I have a kernel source 2.6.23-2 (src RPM) updated to 2.6.22.5 (fine)
> 
> However when I patch to 2.6.23.rc5 from ftp.kernel.org I get when I
> try to make config variations of
> 
>  scripts/kconfig/gconf arch/i386/Kconfig
> init/Kconfig:695: unexpected end statement
> drivers/misc/Kconfig:211: unexpected 'endmenu' within if block
> drivers/Kconfig:94: 'endmenu' in different file than 'menu'
> drivers/misc/Kconfig:16: location of the 'menu'
> make[1]: *** [gconfig] Error 1
> make: *** [gconfig] Error 2
> 
> never came across this before
> 

The 2.6.23-rc5 patch is against 2.6.22, not 2.6.22.5.