i586 kernel for the upcomming 1.0 porteus guide or link

[cest73]

Hi,
it's silly me again:
could I please have a guide to obtain a initrd + vmlinuz + modules compiled for i586?

I need it to brew the Porteus-v1.0 to run on my Edubook Gecko from Norhtec.com
It is an i586 compatible ultra low-power low-cost sub-notebook running on AA batteries (yep )
It runs vanilla Slackware, but i wanted to get advantage of the lzm/xzm compression speed up when using SDcard as the mass storage?

The CPU is 1GHz and uses just 5W for work, so it's not an ancient "can", but an rather "exotic" hardware, okay?


Best regards,
Stevan C.

[fanthom]

for initrd + vmlinuz pls follow this guide:
http://porteus.org/info/docs/51-develop ... ernel.html
this howto will be updated for 2.6.38.x kernels + xz compression when 1.0 is out.

for module you need to compile them from slackbuilds with i586 GCC flags optimizations. more info about gcc - for example here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.5.3/gcc/

good luck!

[cest73]

Kind thanks for the useful links

I wonder how they apply to 1.0? Are they same?

Is there a way I get the 1.0 sources so I try i586-ize them? (I would actually i486-ize them )
8)

Until then I go study the patches etc...

Best regards,
Stevan C.

[fanthom]

"I wonder how they apply to 1.0? Are they same?"
be patient please...

"Is there a way I get the 1.0 sources so I try i586-ize them?"
grab tarbal from kernel.org -> add aufs patch -> configure kernel -> follow tutorial -> easy stuff

BTW - brokenman is back to work on 32bit edition(got an email from here today) so you should get i486 compatible kernel very soon.

[cest73]

will be patient, promise.

as soon a i486 /boot is available, will put [Solved] to the thread

[brokenman]

Porteus 32bit rc1 is released now with kernel support for i486. Try it out and see how you go. If no good i will send you the vmlinuz.

[cest73]

I wait now the RC2:
1. make ARCH=i486 for syslinux installer
2. make the vmlinuz have the buggy shutdown workaround enabled (Y) for the APM to be able to shut the Gecko properly down?
3. APM works, but apmd should be included too (IMHO) and it seems not to be


Best regards,
Stevan C.