Re: [Syllable-kernel] Arno's kernel patches

[Arno K. <arn...@ya...>]

Jake Hamby schrieb:

> Did Arno Klenke release his kernel patches to anyone in source form?  
> I have his latest kernel.so and the patches from Dec. 30, but nothing 
> else.  I sent him a private e-mail so I'm sure I'll hear back from him 
> soon.


My syllable installation has crashed so I currently cannot access the 
patched kernel code that is on another afs partition. Please give me 
some days to reinstall my system. To the cli()/put_cpu_flags() removal: 
The functions where I removed this calls are all called from assembler 
code within syscall.s which already disables the interrupts. So it 
shouldn´t matter if these calls are present or not. However, I already 
had a similiar problem when we switched to gcc3. The kernel just locked 
up while booting. The solution was to move up the put_cpu_flags() call 
in the TimerInterrupt() function. I did not investigate this problem 
further but it seem
ed that put_cpu_flags() just doesn´t have to be the last call in a 
function. If I put some useless code after the call then it worked, 
otherwise not.

The current instability of the kernel cannot be caused by these removals 
because Vanders also reports the same crashes when using the cvs kernel 
code which still contains these calls.

Arno