Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932383AbWAFJOM (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 04:14:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932386AbWAFJOL (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 04:14:11 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.21]:45450 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932383AbWAFJOK (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 04:14:10 -0500 X-Authenticated: #4368190 Message-ID: <43BE34BB.70309@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:13:31 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Lange?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.x on IBM thin client 8363 References: <43BD0E1C.9060705@gmx.de> <20060105191819.594767e0.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20060105191819.594767e0.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1308 Lines: 50 Randy.Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:16:28 +0100 Hans-J?rgen Lange wrote: > > >>Hello, >> >>I would like to run a 2.6.x kernel on a IBM thin client 8363. There are >>patches available for the 2.4 series of kernels. >>I had a look on these patches and the only thing they do is to expand >>the kernel commandline size to 512 Bytes and a change in >>arch/i386/kernel/head.S that changed the pointer to the commandline to a >>fixed address. > > > Where are these 2.4 patches that you are referring to? > O.K. this is the very important one. Because without it the 8363 wont start. --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/head.S.orig Mon Jul 16 16:13:11 2001 +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/head.S Mon Jul 16 16:14:26 2001 @@ -158,7 +158,10 @@ movl $512,%ecx rep stosl - movl SYMBOL_NAME(empty_zero_page)+NEW_CL_POINTER,%esi +/* NetVista */ +/* movl SYMBOL_NAME(empty_zero_page)+NEW_CL_POINTER,%esi */ + movl $0x98000, %esi + andl %esi,%esi jnz 2f # New command line protocol cmpw $(OLD_CL_MAGIC),OLD_CL_MAGIC_ADDR > > > --- > ~Randy > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/