Fedora kernel list - Aug 2007 - Alpha support for kernel

Hi!

I would like to finally add alpha support to our kernel cvs. I will
provide all relavant configs and patches within this mail and hope
someone will take care of that.

alpha.patch is the main thing, that actually does the patching of the
spec and the Makefile.config.

Please have a look at it, revert back to me in case something isn''t as
you like it...

Best,
 Oliver

You should define define an all_alpha spec macro for alpha alphaev56.

On 08/09/2007 01:59 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> You should define define an all_alpha spec macro for alpha alphaev56.
Well. I just use it the way it was in the existing spec to not blow it
up too much.

However, if I would do so, it would be better to

%define all_alpha alpha alphaev5 alphaev56 alphapca56 alpha6 alpha67

I took the above from rpmrc. I see in rpm/macros ix86 defined and arm as
well - maybe we should add alpha there as well, but that''s another
story...

-of

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:31:24PM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
 
 > -# sparse blows up on ppc64
 > +# sparse blows up on ppc64 and alpha
 >  %ifarch ppc64 ppc alpha
 >  %define usesparse 0
 >  %endif

Got bug report?  Actually I should re-test ppc, that may be fixed now.

 > +Patch1101: linux-2.6.21-alpha_execshield.patch
 > +Patch1102: linux-2.6.21-alpha_pagesize.patch

These should drop the ''21'' in the filename.
(Actually, I''ll just fold them into the execshield patch)

 >  # Exec shield
 > +# Doesn''t work on alpha :-(
 > +%ifnarch alpha alphaev56
 >  ApplyPatch linux-2.6-execshield.patch
 > +%endif

Oh. Hmm, maybe not.

 > +# Alpha patches
 > +ApplyPatch linux-2.6.21-alpha_execshield.patch
 > +ApplyPatch linux-2.6.21-alpha_pagesize.patch

So this is odd.  It''d be better to fold your diffs into
the execshield patch, and make that build, even if it
doesn''t actually use any of the execshield functionality.



 > CONFIG_ALPHA=y
 > CONFIG_64BIT=y
 > ...

This should use the templated files and just override config-generic
where necessary.   This way we don''t need to change options in N places
when something changes.

	Dave

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