Official thread: "zen-sources"

[gimpel]

[kriko]

I still cannot change BOOST_PRIVILEGED_TASKS via configuration tool (xconfig, did it later maually in .config).

[ilikenwf]

I don't get any acutal error messages, but in Ubuntu, when booting a freshly built 64-bit kernel, the boot process freezes when the kernel tries to load the Uniform CD-ROM Driver Revision 3.20.

Anybody know how to fix that? I know my lappy's bios has issues with apic, and acpi, but it has always worked before. I will try pulling the latest source and see how another compile goes.
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[saintdev]

With the versioned (2.6.24_rc3-r3) ebuild on the custom_kernels overlay, EAPI doesn't seem to be getting set correctly.

[rmh3093]

[ilikenwf]

Okay...I managed to pull the code at the right time, as I have no errors whatsoever. (I will upload a tarball of the source when I'm done compiling the debs...) I am going to cross-compile tomorrow for the 32 bit build, but everything seems to be squared away (except I may have forgotten to set the printk colors)...anyway, the kernel image deb is huge. What should I leave out to cut the stuff people don't need? I hate to leave out video4linux, but I may, and I may leave out the kernel video drivers except for vesa. Other than that, I have cut the nonessential server only stuff, and don't know what to do.

On a personal note, I would appreciate it if somebody could tell me what option in the config allows the kernel to set the hardware clock - my own custom version of this kernel can't do that...I left something out. Other than that, it's perfect, and weighs in at only 7.4 megabytes.

If anyone has any suggestions (especially if you have a Debian/Ubuntu based box laying around somewhere) on how to shrink the generic kernels I'm building, and perhaps make them faster, please, let me know on the boards here, or email me at parwok -at- gmail.

Whatever the case, Waninkoko and rmh3093 are doing a stupendous job!
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[eatnumber1]

Are you using CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE?

[Rion]

... have to use gentoo-sources.. can't download zen from git with my network
sadly that we will never see patchset package as in kamikaze..
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[kernelOfTruth]

[Waninkoko]

While we're working in snapshots tarballs, you can download patches from http://zen.waninkoko.info/patches

The last patch is linux-2.6.24-rc3-zen3.bz2 and it has to be applied over a clean 2.6.24-rc3 tree.

[Mr. Tao]

With Security Options/Realtime Capabilities enabled, I'm getting this:

[rmh3093]

[Waninkoko]

[SlackwareInAZ]

Recently reinstalled Gentoo 2007.0 with the profile optimized for Desktop.

Am an avid reiser4 user, so I try all the new patches. I know the file integrity horror stories with Reiser4, but emerge --sync is so much quicker than with ext3 (even with all the directory index and other tweaks)

Anyway, I had built my own ebuild to patch 2.6.23.8 vanilla-sources with reiser4 and it worked great.

Just tried zen-sources using git and it is fantastic! The improvement in response and interactivity is noticeable. I used my .config from 2.6.23.8 and accepted the new additions making the .config file ~10% bigger. I'm even using the boot logo

A couple of questions though:

I couldn't really follow the steps using layman and the 9999 ebuild. I had originally emerged layman and modified make.conf to add the sources line. Then I tried "layman -a custom-kernels" and it gave me an error like "no custom-kernels overlay found".

I wonder if there is a quick step-by step for using this install method. This way the kernel would show up in /var/db/pkg and the world file.

My second question is how often would you recommend updating the existing git source? Is following this topic sufficient to know when 2.6.24, etc. is available, or is the idea of pulling from git to always have the latest beta version?

Thanks again for a great idea!

Gary

[eatnumber1]

I'm getting kernel WARN on boot with latest from git.

[forceflow2]

With memory stick support enabled, I am getting this

[Phobos666]

I get the following error:

[omnimuc]

Hi,
when I boot to zen-kernel the following happens
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exportfs: Warning: /home/om/dvdripdata does not support NFS export
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no problem with klight-sources, system is on reiser4, any ideas?

Another Problem is mplayer (1.0_rc1_p20070824) with nvidia-drivers (100.14.19) and Geforce7600
which freezes my system when I quit mplayer, only to access via sysrq. Is this known to anybody?

happy gentooing

[Waninkoko]

[forceflow2]

done, same error
http://pastebin.ca/797284
There's my config if it helps any and I am missing something obvious.
621 is the memstick line.

EDIT: Unless by reclone you actually meant to like, go back from nothing and clone in full instead of just pulling the changes.
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[Aesthete]

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[ocin]

[are]

i confess, i was sceptic about the change from kamikaze. but today i tried zen -- and it works really great!
fantastic stuff! very smooth.

thank you very much for the great work. best regards
are

[Waninkoko]

[gimpel]