[LinuxBIOS] AMD SimNOW question
Myles Watson
myles at pel.cs.byu.edu
Tue Jan 8 23:10:45 CET 2008
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc.Karasek at Sun.COM [mailto:Marc.Karasek at Sun.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:02 PM
> To: Myles Watson
> Cc: LinuxBIOS
> Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] AMD SimNOW question
>
> You are right. I saw that it needed the files under svn/. So I moved
> the files into this directory under sources. This was from the svn co I
> did for version 2950. Could I use the tip of the tree for this or is
> it better to use version 2950?
>
> Now it needs the patch for the compile problems, ld, etc.. for Fedora 8.
>
> Progress no matter how slow is progress, I guess...................... :-
> )
>
You can use the head of the tree. Buildrom is supposed to be a stable
version, so a working version is always specified for v2.
Good luck,
Myles
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>
> Myles Watson wrote:
> > On Jan 8, 2008 12:09 PM, Marc Karasek <Marc.Karasek at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I am trying to get LinuxBIOS and AMD SimNOW working.
> >>
> >> I tried to follow the how-to and have run into a brick wall.
> >>
> >> It gets to the point of compiling linuxbios. Originally it could not
> >> find the file linuxbios-svn-2950.tar.gz file under sources and was
> >> failing. I then got this revision via svn and created this file. I
> put
> >> it in the sources directory, now the patch file for linuxbios is
> failing.
> >>
> >
> > Here's my guess: When you got the revision and made the tarball, your
> > directory structure ended up wrong so the patch won't apply. When you
> > check it out from svn you get a LinuxBIOSv2/* and you need a svn/*
> >
> > If that doesn't help, I don't have enough information to help you.
> > Are you building for fam10 or the original Serengeti_cheetah? Which
> > payload are you using? What patch is failing? What's the error
> > message?
> >
> > I just built LAB payloads for both versions of Serengeti Cheetah, and
> > they worked for me.
> >
> > Myles
> >
> >
> >> It took me a lot work to get to this point as I have been having proxy
> >> server problems. The machine I am building/testing with is in a lab
> and
> >> is behind the proxy.
> >>
> >> I am pretty close to getting this compiled. I already have a system
> >> setup with SimNOW (NDA version). Any help would be appreciated...
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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