Re: A few questions ...

[eric jackson <shinobi@monkey.org>]

On 4 Feb 2000, Chris Ebenezer wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just wondered if anyone else had seen a compilation error (actually a
> link error) when compiling the version of the kernel that comes with the
> 2.6 CD.  It appears that a structure of the name myip_ifp is referenced
> but never defined.  As it appears that this structure is not used in any
> significant way (i take it that its related to some user process that
> filters ip) i commented it out.
> 
> If this isn't an existing problem i can do a bit more digging around in
> the code to find out whats going wrong in this particular case.
> 
> I've installed 2.6 on two machines so far.  When i installed it on the
> first the partitioning and file creation stage needed different
> block/fragment sizes than before (32K instead of 8K i think),  i take it
> that the bit of code that extrapolates from partition size to block
> sizes has been changed in this release ?   This doesn't bother me,
> except that UFS for Linux can't cope with these larger sizes (i think it
> may just a hard coded limit in the code that can possibly be moved but
> have not had the time to try this out yet).
> 
> I have re-compiled the kernel on one machine including USB support,
> every now and then boot up freezes in the stage that detects the Intel
> USB Host Controller, is this a known issue ?
> 
> Finally, i just wondered if there was a real GENERIC kernel config file
> somewhere, i.e something that includes all possible options - the
> standard one for the i386 doesn't even have the lines for SYSV
> IPC/shared mem.

Yes, it surely does. You need to follow the include line in
/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC and look at /sys/conf/GENERIC... GENERIC
kernel keeps just about everything...

				Eric Jackson

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> chris
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