Re: [Thinstation-developer] TS with newer kernels

[Gavin H. <gd...@ac...>]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 10:42 +1100, TrevorB wrote:
> You could try this
> http://batley.com.au/thinstation/kernel-2.6.31.5_TS-2.x.tar.gz
> But it is experimental (It is working for me, but I haven't done too
> much testing yet).
> 
> Move (or delete if you are brave.. ) your current kernel directory first
> cd <path to build>/Thinstation-2.2.2
> mv kernel old_kernel
> tar zxf <path to downloads>/kernel-2.6.31.5_TS-2.x.tar.gz
> 

Thanks, Trevor :) I was getting myself into a terrible state with
binutils + make versions when trying to compile a new kernel in the
chroot compile environment...

Your kernel works for me, although an interesting side-effect is that a
link to /lib/modules/2.6.31.6 (rather than to .5) is made in the
squashfs, so all the kernel modules refuse to load.. I couldn't see
where that was being created, so I just did a 'mv' of the 2.6.31.6 to
2.6.31.5 before mksquashfs and that works OK :)

Module loading is very slow - 1 second pause between each module - so I
think I still need to tinker with making the modules.dep available.

Are there plans to make a 2.2.3 release using this newer kernel? There
must surely be many devices on the market which 2.6.16 is too old to
support (I mean other than our Eee boxes :)

gdh