Is win4lin supported by the gentoo kernel

[amdonati]

Hi,

With the upcoming release of gentoo 1.4 I wanted to try the gentoo kernel, with all his improvements, but as I use win4lin I need to have it supported in the kernel.

I started with a patched vanilla kernel and use now the win4lin kernel source.

I know that XFS kernel have the support too.

But what about the gentoo kernel?

Cna I try it or should I use the XFS kernel instead?

Thanks for the answer,
Bye
Adalberto

[ravenq]

Backup your config files for your Gentoo sources, then try applying the patch for Win4Lin. If you don't get any hunk failed messages, then it should probably work.
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[amdonati]

The problem is that, as far as I can understand (I am definetly not a "kernel hacker"! ), the win4lin patches have some probelms with the preempt patches, and they are included in the gentoo kernel.
That is why I was using the vanilla kernels pathced by me.

But I was hoping that, as we now have a "gentoo win4lin version" as well as ebuilds, maybe the gentoo kernel maintainer could have solved this problems (there are some patches for the preempt kernels in netraverse' site).

If not, I'll stick with the XFS kernel and maybe try later the gentoo one.

Adalberto

[ravenq]

Hmm, hadn't though of that I'm by no means a kernel hacker either *grin* In that case, then yeah, there could be some compatibility issues.

As a suggestion, have two kernels on there, the gentoo one for everyday use and an xfs+win4lin one when you need to use win4lin. Just a thought.
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[Robert]

[yokem55]

[amdonati]

Yes, the win4lin sources are an already patched vanilla kernel.
I think I'll try to patch the gentoo kernel or stick with xfs

Thanks

Adalberto

[amdonati]

I tried to download and patch the gentoo kernel, but I receive a loto of HUNK errors, I think in the MKI component

And then I am not bale to compile the kernel.

I tried to use the premept patch of netraverse too, but with no result.
I hope that some kernel hackers out there finds a way to solve this.

I would really like to try the new kernels.

especially beacuse, when I now use win4lin (not only but especially), for some reasons the CPU load goes up to 99% and the system "freezes" fr a while.
I really do not like to stay there for 5-10 seconds waiting that my cursor works again or looking at a window moving as slow as a turtle.
One of the reasons I moved to linux was or not having to see these things anymore!

Adalberto

[phypor]

linux-2.4.20-win4lin
linux-2.4.21_pre5-gss

-gss is (from what i can tell) the future gentoo kernel, as it is is being developed. It has preempt, lowlatency, and other good patches.

its ~x86, so youll have to do
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge gs-sources

I run it at home (cause it also has SiImage drivers for the excellent Silicon Image PCI->IDE (w/raid-but-i-dont-use-it) card) and i dont see any snags, hangs, instablities, issues with it on my 1700xp... even when rippingdvd&burningcd&playingmp3s&browsing.

And the win4lin support works... I have win98se installed and i can sorta guess that it runs faster than native (ive not installed win98se on anything above a 1gig machine, so i cant say for sure).


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[graybeard]

[phypor]

The -gs support was only half put in.

First grab mki-adapter.patch from win4lin-sources or use this one
Save it to /usr/src/linux-2.4.21_pre5-gss.

Then

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