Alpha ELF Kernel comments & questions

Doug DeJulio (ddj@aisb.org)
Sun, 28 Jul 1996 14:53:01 -0400 (EDT)

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I've downloaded the "Elfball" stuff -- naturally it won't work with a kernel
that doesn't support ELF. I couldn't get ELF to work in the unpatched kernels
(binfmt_elf.c: structure has no member named 'edx').

So, I downloaded the patches from azstarnet, and built an elf-aware kernel.
(The patches I found apply against 2.0.7, but the latest kernel I've found is
2.0.10 -- are the latest patches on azstarnet, or should I look elsewhere
for newer ones?)

Just applying the patch doesn't seem to work, but I noticed a "386" directory
was created alongside my "linux" directory in /usr/src. After examining it, I
tarred its contents up and untarred it into the linux src tree. That worked
-- I've got a working elf-aware kernel, and "elfball" works.

So, what other than the ELF binary format do the patches fix? At some point
someone mentioned a patch to get Linux to use /dev/ttyS0 as console. My
employer wants to run a few UDBs (and Intel Linux boxes too) in a machine
room, and having the console be a serial port would be ideal.

-- Doug DeJulio | mailto:ddj@aisb.org Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria | http://www.aisb.org/~ddj/

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