Re: kernel 2.6.x on IBM thin client 8363

[Hans-Jürgen Lange]

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.


--- 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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