linuxconsole-dev

Synced with 2.4.4

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

Hi!


  Just synced our tree with 2.4.4. I have some more improvements coming
this way. Cleaner initalization code. Much finer higher level locking in
the tty layer to deal with the printk DMA/irq issue. Really support for
changing the console resolution. I discovered it can be done via stty.
Note resizing the console is still experimental. I plan to stablize it
this weekend.

Re: Synced with 2.4.4

[Johann D. <jo...@Do...>]

Hi !

I tried to compile the code with a new 2.4.4 kernel, and it did not
work. I am alone in this situation ?
When I tried with the previous versions of the Linux console sources and a
kernel 2.4.3 I got the same errors.
Unfortunately, I don't have the errors at hand, but perhaps I did
something wrong.

Here is how I tried to compile the code:
# Get the Linux console sources
cvs login ...
cvs co .../ruby
# Save it
tar cvzf ruby.tgz ruby/
# Extract linux sources
cd ruby
tar xvyf linux-2.4.4.tar.bz2
# Overwrite linux sources with Linux console sources
cd ..
tar xvzf ruby.tgz ruby/linux
# Compile the stuff
cd ruby/linux
cp /usr/src/linux/.config .
make xconfig
-> Errors in config.in. I fixed them as well as I could
make bzImage
-> Errors in one of the vt* files. The problem was a mutex.

Is there anything I did wrong ? If not, I will try again the compilation
to have the exact errors.
I used to have the same problems with the version for the linux kernl 
v. 2.4.3

-- 
Johann Deneux
CS student at DoCS (www.docs.uu.se/~johannd) and
ESIL (www.esil.univ-mrs.fr/~jdeneux)

Re: Synced with 2.4.4

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

Hum. Interesting use of tar. 

> make xconfig
> -> Errors in config.in. I fixed them as well as I could

Fixed. It appears make xconfig is not as forgiving as make menuconfig or
make config. Now it works.

> make bzImage
> -> Errors in one of the vt* files. The problem was a mutex.

> Johann Deneux
> CS student at DoCS (www.docs.uu.se/~johannd) and
> ESIL (www.esil.univ-mrs.fr/~jdeneux)
> 

Hum. I have had this error reported before but I couldn't reproduce it. 
Did you do a make dep first? Try a make dep then make bzImage. If this
doesn't work then save you .config file somewhere and try a make mrproper.
Move the config file back and try make dep;make bzImage. Let me know if
this doesn't work.