[Voyage-products] compiling a voyage kernel on FC3 + some other issues

[Jorma Jaakob]

I realize you're all sworn debian-people, but don't shoot me for asking 
this. I'm running voyage on a MSM586 (pc104) w amd ELAN520 and would wan't 
to recompile the kernel. Obviously the target board's resources make me less 
than willing to do a native compile.

Also I have been using FC3 on my desktop and have all the little stuff I 
like already installed on it. Hence I wouldn't want to go through the hassle 
of installing debian just to do the recompile.

So the problem is that the voyage kernel image sources you provide are .deb. 
Can't I get it in another form anywhere? I tried taking a vanilla 2.6.8.1 
from kernel.org and patching with the voyage 1.4 patch provided in the 
downloads section, but apparently that isn't meant for a vanilla kernel(?) 
as problems seem to arise.

And while I'm at it, I'd also like to know if anyone has used the newer 
(2.6.11+) kernels with voyage. Apparently one would have to get the patches 
included in voyage one by one from various sources(?)

Also I've run into some trouble with pebble and APM on the MSM board. I 
tried pebble earlier and with the 2.4 kernel everything worked smoothly. 
After I installed my own 2.6 kernel, though, I coudn't normally reboot 
anymore (it hung after "now rebooting.."). First I figured I had gone wrong 
seomewhere with the kernel compile, but the same issue arose when I switched 
to voyage. When I try to load the apm module, it complains something like 
"BIOS not found" and fails. I've tried adding apm=on and acpi=off in the 
boot options but to no avail. I know the board supports APM (since it worked 
on pebble) and as far as I can see, the kernel .configs are (as much as 
possible with 2.4 vs 2.6) the same as they were then. Any tips on the issue?

Furthermore I was somewhat surprized to find out that /proc/cpuinfo doesn't 
show the cpu correctly. In startup the kernel sees it correctly as ELAN520, 
133Mhz, but cpuinfo states thus "processor: 0" and the lines of Mhz and 
cache size are completely missing. If I'm not totally mistaken, this info 
comes from the BIOS so perhaps the problem could be related to the one 
above(?) I wouldn't really care about this but I'd like to run amlat 
(latency testing program) on the machine and it just wont run unless it get 
correct info from /proc/cpuinfo.

None the less, the most important thing for me right now is the kernel 
source. I'm no guru but I've done kernel compiles before and would just need 
the appropriate sources installed on the FC3.

Thanks in advance for your answers.

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