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
---
~Randy
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