Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] HFS+ and Kernel 2.4.24

[Bernard L. <le...@bo...>]

There is a download from sourceforge "iPod Linux Userland".  This archive
contains all you need for the root partition.  This is also the "user tools".

Jean-Charles Tournier <jea...@rd...> said:

> ok, thanks. I'll try this way.
> 
> I agree with you that my kernel problem are very strange :). I going to 
> recompile from scratch and see if i get the same problem and i'll keep 
> you informed.
> 
> Well, I've got several ohter questions:
> -once i installed the kernel on my ipod what must i put on the root 
> partition
> -i don't really understand the last part of the howto "building a 
> uClinux system for the ipod" called "user tools". What is it?
> 
> thanks,
> jc.
> 
> Le 11 mars 04, à 10:04, Bernard Leach a écrit :
> 
> >
> > In order to see a HFS+ partition you need HFS+ filesystem support and 
> > Mac
> > partition support.  For the parition support select the "Advanced 
> > partition"
> > option and then specify MAC (and MSDOS if needed).
> >
> > In .config:
> >
> > CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS=y
> > CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y
> >
> > The kernel problems you had are quite strange - it should compile "out 
> > of the
> > box".
> >
> > After you applied the patches etc you should be able to just copy the 
> > default
> > config and then build something that works;
> >
> > cp arch/armnommu/def-configs/ipod .config
> > make oldconfig
> > make dep
> > make
> > make modules
> >
> > Did you miss the "make dep" line?
> >
> > Jean-Charles Tournier <jea...@rd...> said:
> >
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> I try to install linux on my mac ipod, which means that I have HFS+
> >> partition. So I compiled the 2.4.24 kernel   . When I installed it, i
> >> hoped that it could natively see my HFS+ root partition, but it
> >> doesn't. Is there a special flag to set when compiling the kernel?
> >>
> >> I report here the problems I get when I compiled the 2.4.24 kernel. I
> >> used the source kernel from
> >> (http://www.ovh-new.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/), the
> >> uClinux-2.4.24-uc0.diff.gz and the cvs version of the ipodlinux patch.
> >> First I needed to create a file at include/linux/version.h which
> >> contains:
> >> #define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.24-uc0"
> >> #define LINUX_VERSION_CODE KERNEL_VERSION(2,2,24)
> >> #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))
> >>
> >> Then, I need to comment the line 245 of file char/serial.c and line 4
> >> of include/asm/spinlock.h
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> jc.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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