Re: [patch] VP-2.6.9-rc4-mm1-T5

[K.R. Foley]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * K.R. Foley <kr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > > i've uploaded -T5 which should fix most of the build issues:
> >
> > This fixed the build problems for me (SMP). I did get one unresolved
> > symbol when building this with REALTIME enabled.
>
>
> (which symbol was this?)

WARNING: 
/lib/modules/2.6.9-rc4-mm1-VP-T5-RT/kernel/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.ko 
needs unknown symbol _mutex_trylock_bh

I shouldn't have even had ppp enabled and then wouldn't have noticed it, 
but...
> > [...] Also got error messages scrolling up the screen when I tried to
> > boot it (looked very much like Mark's problem with T4) and it never
> > made it. :( If I had to guess, it might be related to APICs? I always
> > have to use "noapic" boot parameter.  Ingo what are you running this
> > on? I don't have the exact error messages, but I'm rebuilding it now
> > to try to get those. Without RT Preemption it seems to be running very
> > nicely.
>
>
> dont worry about it not booting on your setup with PREEMPT_REALTIME, as
> long as it boots with !PREEMPT_REALTIME - i only really converted my
> testsystems which are basically IDE + e100/e1000/rtl8139, ext3 and the
> bare minimum that is needed to run Fedora. It might be useful to send me
> a bootlog if you have any easy way to capture it - if not it's not a big
> problem either.
>
> 	Ingo

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