Re: Tracking a bug in x86-64

[Bongani Hlope <bonganilinux@mweb.co.za>]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 10:27 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > The way to do the binary searach is to get the
> > 
> >  	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm1/2.6.11-mm1-broken-out.tar.gz 
> > 
> >  file, and then to apply half of the patches
> 
> Or:
> 
> - install https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/
> 
> cd /usr/src/linux
> wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm1/2.6.11-mm1-broken-out.tar.gz
> tar xfz 2.6.11-mm1-broken-out.tar.gz
> mv broken-out patches
> mv patches/series .
> 
> Now you can do `quilt push 100' to apply 100 patches, `quilt pop 50' to
> remove half of them, etc.
> 
> Open a copy of the series file in an editor and add markers to it as you
> proceed through the search so you don't get lost.
> 
> Avoid applying obviously-broken patches.  For example, we have, in the
> series file:
> 
> posix-timers-cpu-clock-support-for-posix-timers.patch
> posix-timers-cpu-clock-support-for-posix-timers-fix.patch
> posix-timers-cpu-clock-support-for-posix-timers-fix3.patch
> 
> That's one patch plus two fixes to it.  You'd either apply all of these or none.
> 
> There's a bit of setup but once quilt is installed it's all pretty easy and
> quick.
> 

I'm busy downloading quilt, I'll let you know when I find something
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