Subject: Re: Building a kernel...
To: Greg Hughes <gl2hughes@uwaterloo.ca>
From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 03/06/2002 12:21:04
Greg,

	It would be great if you could look into it when you get a chance.
I tried to go ahead with the build, skipping that one line in your
instructions (to remove the touch-screen device), but even 'config' gives
errors about vrip :-)  And, before anyone asks, I did recompile config
from CVS first :-)

Adam

On 4 Mar 2002, Greg Hughes wrote:

> Adam, 
> 
> The step you mention is meant to remove the touch-screen (PIU) device
> support from the kernel.  I don't think it will really matter if you
> have it in the kernel or not.  However, I don't know if the line to
> include the DSIU / TP driver in the kernel will work because of the
> change to layout of the configuration files.
> 
> I am currently trying to determine what the procedure should be to get
> the DSIU / TP driver to work with CVS versions of the kernel and will
> let you know once I know.
> 
> - Greg
> 
> On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 14:24, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: 
> > 
> > So, once again, I'm trying to build a kernel for my z50 :-)  I really want
> > to get suspend and resume working, and Greg Hughes' kernel which supports
> > suspend and resume doesn't support my wireless card...
> > 
> > So I've pulled the latest code from CVS as well as the code from Greg's
> > site for the TrackPoint. 
> > 
> > Here's the first problem:  His instructions say to find the line in the
> > kernel config file that says "vrpiu* at vrip? addr 0x0b000120 size 0x1a0
> > intr 5" and comment it out.  But that line doesn't exist.  This make me
> > think that the code in CVS has been updated, but has it been updated to
> > the point where it already supports the TrackPoint?  If not, do I just
> > skip that line in his instructions and continue with the rest of the
> > process that Greg outlines in his instructions?
> > 
> > Adam
> > 
> > 
>