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?
> In the 2.4.kernel the kernel parameter and command line are ,,moved out
> of the way'' in two steps. And the second step is the one that get patched.
> In the 2.6 kernel this is done in one step. I did get an explanation of
> the startup code for the 2.4. kernel but not for the 2.6. I believe that
> it is no problem to make the changes to get the IBM 8363 running.
>
> I have seen that some people use this machine but all what use the
> newest kernel.
>
> If someone could help me to understand what is going on in the startup
> code or may have a ready to use solution for this problem it would be
> very nice if you could help with get it running.
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~Randy
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