[LV] The kernel build process & tools any changes .

[Kenn Humborg]

> > I think the getting-started guide at
> > http://linux-vax.sourceforge.net/docs/README is still valid.
> 
>  	Thank you .
>  	Hmm ,  Document dated 12-Nov-2005 (actually is) .  I do rememeber 
> Jan-Benedict saying something about moving the repo to kernel.org 
> for the kernel 
> .  And there were changes to the tools for building the kernel 
> with ,  shortly 
> before this moving from cvs to svn/git .  All that was some 
> months after the 
> date on that file .

That doc talks about getting the kernel sources from Jan-Benedict's
GIT tree on kernel.org.  The CVS-to-SVN change was not in our 
sources, but in the upstream sources for GCC, binutils and/or uclibc.
The initial_cvs_checkout.sh script (in our CVS repository) does
the SVN checkout for you.

So I don't think the README is all that out of date :-)

> 
>  	I'll search the mailing list achives .  And see if I can find the 
> updated instructions that Jan-Benedict sent out .  When I was 
> attempting to 
> build a bootable kernel for my uVax3000-xxx(qbus) system .
>  		Tnx again ,  JimL

If you still have the toolchain you built before, I'd suggest using
that rather than building a fresh one from the HEAD of the upstream
sources.  I suspect that our GCC patches may not apply cleanly to
GCC HEAD, since it has been a long time since they were updated.

OTOH, if you plan to update the patches to apply to HEAD, I'm sure
Jan-Benedict would be happy!

Later,
Kenn

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