From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QvEUi-00015c-7E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:19:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E524E21C0C2; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF0A21C0C2 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0A9731B4005 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:19:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so4445193vws.40 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.138.68 with SMTP id qo4mr1479811vdb.423.1313957972047; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.156.131 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:19:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110821200109.GC6128@alumni-linux.ccs.neu.edu> References: <20110821200109.GC6128@alumni-linux.ccs.neu.edu> From: Matt Turner Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:19:11 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] newer kernels on an SGI O2? To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 91ca3075d7ff0f58bcdd62d79c6fbb76 On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Jim Faulkner wrote: > I see that the most recent mips-sources kernel is 2.6.37. =A0Are there > newer sources I can use on an O2? =A0I tried the linux-3.0.3 sources from > the Linux/MIPS git repository, but nothing happens after "Entering > kernel" with the kernel I built. sys-kernel/mips-sources is sort of an experimental playground. I wouldn't recommend using it unless it includes a patch you specifically need. For the O2, I would just use gentoo-sources or vanilla-sources. The kernel that I built for you was just from Linus' git tree. The config I used for it is http://dev.gentoo.org/~mattst88/sgi-o2/config Matt