Yes,I have access to the CD that has Montavista's kernel(2.4.2) on it.
Manoj
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Popov [mailto:ppopov@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:47 AM
> To: Matthew Dharm
> Cc: linux-mips; Manoj Ekbote
> Subject: Re: Help with OOPSes, anyone?
>
>
> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 22:18, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > Do you know who, precisely, got the CD? I'm going to try
> to chase this
> > down, but exact names would be helpful.
>
> I believe Manoj has access to it and I added him to the CC without
> asking ;-)
>
> > Also, when you push that material out to the community,
> when did you do
> > that? That is, if your work is 2.4.2-based, is it
> reasonable to assume
> > that 2.4.2 or 2.4.3 in the CVS repository will work?
>
> No, not necessarily. Sometimes I push out patches for new
> boards even
> if the support is not fully baked yet. But typically I wait until I've
> got something useful going. That means that the work might have been
> done locally, on a 2.4.2 snapshot, and submitted once it was stable.
> However, oss might have been up to 2.4.5 at that point; that, and
> whatever delay is introduced because Ralf is too busy to immediately
> apply the patches means that a MontaVista 2.4.2 based release does not
> necessarily equal oss 2.4.2.
>
> > Or do you take a more "fire and forget" sort of approach?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by that. Hopefully the above is clear
> enough.
>
> Pete
>
> > Matthew Dharm
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 06:29:22PM -0800, Pete Popov wrote:
> > >
> > > > And 2.4.17 with the wait instruction turned off still crashes.
> > >
> > > > The Montavista kernel (which claims to be 2.4.0 #5
> build by jsun)
> > > > seems to work...
> > >
> > > Strange, that must have been some interim build Jun did.
> > >
> > > > I've done several recompiles on it, and lots of I/O
> > > > traffic with no problems. Unfortunatly, I don't have
> the source code
> > > > to this particular kernel... tho I believe that
> Montavista is required
> > > > to release their source cod by the GPL.
> > >
> > > All of the open source work we do we push out to the
> community tree
> > > immediately. That's a rule we live by and there's no
> exceptions. The Ocelot
> > > code was pushed out back then. Since then I've seen lots
> of additions to that
> > > directory and obviously something got broke.
> > >
> > > QED did receive an Alliance CD with the Ocelot LSP on it,
> so they should
> > > be able to provide you with a copy of the cdimage, including the
> > > source. But the kernel will be 2.4.2 based though -- I
> don't know where
> > > the 2.4.0 came from.
> > >
> > > > Tho here's a question: What is the best compiler to
> build a kernel
> > > > with? I've built all mine with egcs-2.91.66 which I
> downloaded from
> > > > oss.sgi.com a while ago.
> > >
> > > MontaVista's, but I'm biased ;-) The toolchain will be
> on the CD as
> > > well.
> > >
> > > Pete
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Dharm Work: mdharm@momenco.com
> > Senior Software Designer, Momentum Computer
> >
>
>
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