Re: Synced to 2.4.10

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

> > Fixed. Thanks for picking these bugs up. 
> > 
> We are not finished, yet ;)
> I had to add a few includes to linux/lib/bust_spinlocks.c (asm/smp.h and
> linux/sched.h). 

Ah!! Okay. I put a new file into CVS. Lets see if that works. 

I also had to replace the atomic_set(&global_irq_lock,
> 0) by global_irq_lock=0 (hmm, is that safe ?). Indeed, atomic_set needs an
> atomic_t, while global_irq_lock is an integer.

You got a good point. Let me look...

Ug! The problem is global_irq_lock is atomic on some platforms and a
spinlock on others. 

> Once this was done, I managed to get the bzImage file compiled.
> Unfortunately, trying to boot it gave nothing at all. It did not even seem
> to crash, as it hardly started.

I will test it tonight.

> After choosing the version to boot on in grub, the screen went blank. The
> keyboard did not seem to respond. I do not even remember seeing the
> "Uncompressing kernel image ..........." message.

Really strange. 

> bi-PII-333 

Try it without SMP support.

> Btw, enabling the debug options in "Kernel Hacking" leads to multiple
> definitions of do_BUG. But I guess I can live with that for now.

Will fix tonight.