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Linux kernels, device drivers, modules.
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gmake upgrade fails - please suggest remedy
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Could some Linux guru please help ? I am running RedHat 2.6.9-34.EL. I am trying to build OpenWrt Kamikaze-8.09 on my machine. Whwn I tried compiling it, I got an error message that I needed gmake 8.1 or above. I downloaded the gzip file, unzipped and went through the steps of ./ configure, make, make check and make install and everything worked... more »
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where to get kernel to build a custom one
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From kernel.org, or the one of the distribution (manufacturer) which I'm currently using? If the one from kernel.org, will the modifications to kernel source by by the distro lose and introduce problems or bugs ever fixed by the distro? Debian shows in his handbook[1] in sec4.4 and 4.5 that both are ok.... more »
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howto apply 2.6.x.y on 2.6.x
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can I apply patch-2.6.26.1.bz2 on kernel linux-2.6.26? I failed to do so with patch-kernel utility. $ ls linux-2.6.26 patch-2.6.26.1 patch-2.6.26.1.bz2 $ linux-2.6.26/scripts/patch-ker nel linux-2.6.26 patch-2.6.26.1 Current kernel version is 2.6.26 ( Rotary Wombat) cannot find patch file: patch-2.6.27... more »
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Whom Must We Worship
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Whom Must We Worship The submission of man to His Creator is the essence of Islam. The name “Islam” is chosen by God (Allah) and not by man. It is the same unifying Message revealed to all the Prophets and Messengers by Allah and which they spread amongst their respective nations. In its Final form it was revealed to Muhammad (Peace & Mercy of Allah be upon him)... more »
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HPCS-10 Call for papers
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HPCS-10 Call for papers The 2010 International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10) (website: [link]) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. HPCS is an important event in the areas of high performance computing, grid computing and related topics.... more »
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How can I thoroughly debug these types of errors?
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Hi I have had a few times these types of error reports before and I can not narrow them to anything apparent I have plenty of RAM in my box, have run memtest and checked my hard drives with e2fsck, smartmontools, etc, yet these types of errors keep happening. I think now I have the time to thoroughly investigate... more »
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using 32-bit library on 64-bit system
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Hi. We have a mixed bunch of 32-bit (i686) and 64-bit (x86_64) Fedora 11 machines. I created a library on one of the 32-bit machines by issuing the commands g++ -c List.cc ar q libList.a List.o ranlib libList.a Suppose that I attempt to use same on a 64-bit machine: g++ -o foo foo.o -L. -lList... more »
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ia32 System call emulation in x86_64
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I would really appreciate it if anyone can shed light into how are system calls for 32 bit binaries handled in a 64 bit kernel (or atleast give me pointers other than the source code itself). More precisely I would like to know how and where the kernel decides to use the 32 bit syscall table rather than 64 bit syscall table.... more »
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HPET bug?
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Hi everyone, We are seeing jiffies go forward occasionally, by 300 seconds, this it appears is due to the following code in the 2.6.16 kernel: mark_offset_tsc_hpet(void): ... 1 hpet_current = hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER); 2 rdtsc(last_tsc_low, last_tsc_high); 3 4 /* lost tick compensation */ 5 offset = hpet_readl(HPET_T0_CMP) - hpet_tick;... more »
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