On 01/06/2011 12:45 PM, Don Zickus wrote:
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:53:24AM -0800, JD wrote:
>>> as a base config file (such as ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/config-x86-generic
>>> (my arch is i686), when building from a new source rpm release.
>>> It never yielded a kernel with my drivers enabled.
>> Try config-i686-PAE and see if that works instead. That file overrides
>> config-x86-generic (according to Makefile.config) and fedora uses i686-PAE
>> by default.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Don
>>
> But my architecture is not PAE!!! I have a uni-core 64bit cpu,
> but prefer to run in 32bit mode because of all the crappy issues I have
> had with 3rd party plugins not being available for 64 bit native.
> I hate wrappers - they are a terrible kludge.
> In addition, I only have 2GB ram - so PAE does not provide me with
> any advantages. Nothing so huge that needs more than 3GB virtual space.
> Looking at ..../SOURCES/ dir, I do not see a generic config file for non-PAE
> i686 architecture.
Relax, all I asked was for you to copy your custom config to
config-i686-PAE. I didn't imply you were using PAE. Remember Fedora
doesn't care about your configs, they only care about theirs. Their
config uses PAE as default. Therefore when you ran rpmbuild -bb, the
Makefile.config probably munged your config-x86-generic changes with
config-i686-PAE and used that output for the build.
Just try copying it and see if it works, we can fix things later.
Cheers,
Don
OK Don I will try it.
Will let you know.
Cheers,
JD