[Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: a kernel for our solidrun protos?

Adam Holt holt at laptop.org
Fri Jan 3 21:37:37 EST 2014


Thanks Sameer, fyi George's XO-4 should arrive by Tues.


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:47 PM, George Hunt <georgejhunt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On our skype call Thursday, Jon suggested using the XO4 config file as a
> > base for getting all the needed kernel capability. And James suggested
> > looking at the upstream kernel conf.  In any case I'll need to
> understand,
> > and merge in, whatever special conig Rebeeh put in for the SOC in the
> Cubox.
> >
> > I won't have an XO4, until it arrives next week. (Adam agreed to send me
> > one, if I'd build it up to XSCE for Haiti later this month). So here
> comes a
> > request:
> >
> > Can I ask someone to email me the XO4 /boot/conf* file. I'm not at home,
> and
> > I didn't bring an ARM XO with me to California. I would love to get XSCE
> to
> > load, without erroring out, on a Cubox.
> >
>
> George,
> If you are close by, you can borrow mine until Adam's XO-4 arrives.
>
> Sameer
>
> > Do we need to start thinking about eSata interfaces. I happen to have an
> > eSata enclosure from Startech, and a eSata cable.  But I didn't find any
> > reference that looked like the kernel was recognizing an eSata
> interface. I
> > searched the config I'm using. There were "SATA" config lines which were
> not
> > enabled.
> >
> > Jon, what hardware have you been using? Maybe I can get you to email or
> post
> > your config file.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:16 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:00:43AM -0500, George Hunt wrote:
> >> > Right now XSCE server software does not load, because some of the
> >> > kernel networking userland (rtnetfilter) interfaces are not enabled.
> >>
> >> Speculation: the configuration changes between the upstream Linux
> >> kernel and the Fedora Linux kernel are what you may need to add.
> >> Looking at the kernel configuration (/boot/config*) of a Fedora kernel
> >> may give useful data.
> >>
> >> --
> >> James Cameron
> >> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>
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