Hi Chris,
Yeah.. I'm still at it. I will see if setting it to the miata will make
it work or not. Atleast I have a working kernel to look at. Don't
worry.. I'll figure it out:)
Chris Lumens wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to find out what in the generic
> > kernel image is not working on my box and have been
> > unsuccessful as of yet. I tried about 8 times last
> > night. It seems to always panic right after it sees
> > the IDE cdrom drive. I'm going to try building the
> > kernel tonight without any ide support to see if that
> > is the problem or not.
>
> Hmmm.....I'd like to say that I could start to take a look into it, but I
> don't have the hardware so I think you're pretty much the best person for
> the job. Have you tried changing the kernel type from "generic" to your
> specific type of machine?
>
> > As for gcc.. I've been having all sorts of issues.. so
> > I think that for now egcs is the best choice. I looked
> > at what the NetBSD folks are doing and it basicly
> > looks like they are trying to merge gcc and egcs. They
> > are spending a lot of time picking and choosing what
> > goes in the compiler. Hopefully at some point.. gcc
> > will work out. But for now.. egcs I think will do.
>
> Yeah, we're sticking with egcs all over the place. And what's more, we're
> sticking with glibc-2.1.3 until I can make egcs compile it correctly. I
> worked on building it with the patched gcc last night, and it gave me all
> sorts of random behavior. So we're going to be a little behind for a
> while, but I don't really have a problem with that.
>
> I've added another question to the FAQ in the distribution tree that
> explains all of this.
>
> Now maybe I can quit spending all my time on toolchain stuff and actually
> make some progress.
>
> --
> Chris Lumens - chris@slackware.com - KG6CIH
> @n=(-42,-85,-83,-19,65,2,-10,-10,-15,-3,2,-10,73,-4,8,-4,2,79,8,17,15,7,14,2);
> print map{chr(-$n[$i++]+ord)} sort(split(//,'place random string here')),"\n";
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