In article <43862CD6.4050008@broadcom.com>
alexp@broadcom.com wrote:

> The patch failed to apply. What kernel source is the patch against? I am 
> trying to apply it to 2.1 that I got from here :
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-2-1/tar_files/src/sys.tar.gz
> 
> What is good place to get my kernel source from ?

Hmm I'd say "it works for me though I don't know what you did," again?
"patch --ignore-whitespace" could help?

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% ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-2-1/tar_files/src/sys.tar.gz
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% tar zxvf sys.tar.gz
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% cd src
% patch -p < /tmp/cobalt.diff
Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
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|--- sys/arch/cobalt/cobalt/console.c.orig	2004-01-07 21:43:43.000000000 +0900
|+++ sys/arch/cobalt/cobalt/console.c	2005-11-23 15:16:47.000000000 +0900
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Patching file sys/arch/cobalt/cobalt/console.c using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 29.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 39.
Hmm...  The next patch looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
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|--- sys/arch/cobalt/conf/files.cobalt.orig	2003-10-18 03:20:10.000000000 +0900
|+++ sys/arch/cobalt/conf/files.cobalt	2005-11-23 15:16:43.000000000 +0900
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Patching file sys/arch/cobalt/conf/files.cobalt using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 13.
Hmm...  The next patch looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
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|--- /dev/null	2005-11-23 15:04:16.000000000 +0900
|+++ sys/arch/cobalt/conf/INSTALL	2005-11-23 14:56:35.000000000 +0900
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(Creating file sys/arch/cobalt/conf/INSTALL...)
Patching file sys/arch/cobalt/conf/INSTALL using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1.
Hmm...  The next patch looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
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|--- sys/arch/cobalt/dev/com_mainbus.c.orig	2003-10-18 03:20:10.000000000 +0900
|+++ sys/arch/cobalt/dev/com_mainbus.c	2005-11-23 15:16:37.000000000 +0900
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Patching file sys/arch/cobalt/dev/com_mainbus.c using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 30.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 51.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 61.
Hunk #4 succeeded at 96.
Hmm...  The next patch looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
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|--- /dev/null	2005-11-23 15:04:16.000000000 +0900
|+++ sys/arch/cobalt/dev/com_mainbusvar.h	2005-11-23 15:15:15.000000000 +0900
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(Creating file sys/arch/cobalt/dev/com_mainbusvar.h...)
Patching file sys/arch/cobalt/dev/com_mainbusvar.h using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1.
done
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Checking out from netbsd-2 branch might be better
if you try to build kernels from sources, though.

% env CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot cvs checkout -P -rnetbsd-2 src/sys
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Izumi Tsutsui