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From: Joseph Jezak <josejx@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-doc-cvs@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:42:27
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1 josejx 07/04/02 02:42:14
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3 Modified: hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml
4 Log:
5 Update kernel instructions.
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7 Revision Changes Path
8 1.35 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml
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10 file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml?rev=1.35&view=markup
11 plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml?rev=1.35&content-type=text/plain
12 diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml?r1=1.34&r2=1.35
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14 Index: hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml
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16 RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml,v
17 retrieving revision 1.34
18 retrieving revision 1.35
19 diff -u -r1.34 -r1.35
20 --- hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml 2 Apr 2007 01:57:59 -0000 1.34
21 +++ hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml 2 Apr 2007 02:42:14 -0000 1.35
22 @@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
23 <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
24 <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
25
26 -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml,v 1.34 2007/04/02 01:57:59 josejx Exp $ -->
27 +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/hb-install-ppc-kernel.xml,v 1.35 2007/04/02 02:42:14 josejx Exp $ -->
28
29 <sections>
30
31 <version>8.0</version>
32 -<date>2007-03-15</date>
33 +<date>2007-04-01</date>
34
35 <section>
36 <title>Timezone</title>
37 @@ -158,6 +158,7 @@
38 <pre caption="Selecting necessary file systems">
39 File systems ---&gt;
40 Pseudo Filesystems ---&gt;
41 +<comment>(/proc may already be forced on by your configuration, if so, you'll see --- instead)</comment>
42 [*] /proc file system support
43 [*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)
44 Partition Types ---&gt;
45 @@ -179,7 +180,9 @@
46
47 <pre caption="Activating HFS support">
48 File Systems ---&gt;
49 - [*] HFS Support
50 + Miscellaneous filesystems ---&gt;
51 + &lt;*&gt; Apple Macintosh file system support
52 + &lt;*&gt; Apple Extended HFS file system support
53 </pre>
54
55 <p>
56 @@ -189,7 +192,7 @@
57
58 <pre caption="Selecting PPPoE necessary drivers">
59 Device Drivers ---&gt;
60 - Networking support ---&gt;
61 + Network device support ---&gt;
62 &lt;*&gt; PPP (point-to-point protocol) support
63 &lt;*&gt; PPP support for async serial ports
64 &lt;*&gt; PPP support for sync tty ports
65 @@ -207,15 +210,30 @@
66 the BMAC driver.
67 </p>
68
69 +<pre caption="Selecting the network driver">
70 +Device Drivers ---&gt;
71 + Network device support ---&gt;
72 + Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) ---&gt;
73 + [*] Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
74 + &lt;*&gt; Generic Media Independent Interface device support
75 + &lt;*&gt; MACE (Power Mac ethernet) support
76 + &lt;*&gt; BMAC (G3 ethernet) support
77 + &lt;*&gt; Sun GEM support
78 +</pre>
79 +
80 <p>
81 -At this time, kernel preemption is still unstable on PPC and may cause
82 +At this time, full kernel preemption may still be unstable on PPC and may cause
83 compilation failures and random segfaults. It is <e>strongly</e> suggested
84 -that you do not use this feature.
85 +that you do not use this featurea. Both <e>Voluntary Preemption</e> and
86 +<e>No Forced Preemption</e> should be safe.
87 </p>
88
89 <pre caption="Ensure the Preemptible Kernel Option is Off">
90 Kernel options ---&gt;
91 - Preemption Model (No Forced Preemption (Server))
92 +<comment>(Select One)</comment>
93 + Preemption Model
94 + (X) No Forced Preemption (Server)
95 + (X) Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)
96 </pre>
97
98 <p>
99 @@ -435,7 +453,7 @@
100 or ext3 as filesystem you might need to manually configure your kernel using
101 <c>genkernel --menuconfig all</c> and add support for your
102 filesystem <e>in</e> the kernel (i.e. <e>not</e> as a module). Users of EVMS2 or
103 -LVM2 will probably want to add <c>--evms2</c> or <c>--lvm2</c> as argument as
104 +LVM2 will probably want to add <c>--evms2</c> or <c>--lvm2</c> as an argument as
105 well.
106 </p>
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