Hello, clarf !clarf wrote:Hi MHHP,
I agree that's the right approach to achieve maximum compatibility with old hardware and keep the 214X kernel original essence.
I also tried to find the individual kernel patches by their name, but I had no luck. I could not find the loglevel, via, dpath or ksize patches.
I just found newer unionfs releases for 2.6.18.X but as I described in the upgrade process I have to test those versions, and hope the Unix socket problem is solved and track any other inconsistency.
Did you have any luck with the patches sources? How is the compare process going on?
Greetings,
clarf
I've started diffing the available sources (original, pup216, pup214 ...) and tracking down the files that were patched by the different patches. I think it should be possible to reverse engineer the patches for the ksize-, dpath- and via-patches, as I have patched sources with one, two and three of these patches applied respectively.
The loglevel patch is, from what I gather, sometimes also called the printk.c patch, and is described well in Iguleders kernel compile instructions, where it's called lower_verbosity-patch .
Anyway, I'm still onto it, (but, have strayed away the last few days, trying to install CRUX ) and think it should be doable. A helluva job it seems, but I'm enjoying it .
Cheers /
MHHP