Re: kernel 2.6.x on IBM thin client 8363

["Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:13:31 +0100 Hans-Jürgen Lange wrote:

> Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:16:28 +0100 Hans-Jürgen 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.

Sorry, I have no idea about this patch.
Where did you get these 2.4 patches?  are there others?

It looks a little like it may be dependent on your boot loader.
What boot loader are you using?


> --- 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


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~Randy