With kernel 2.6.16 several things changed in PowerPC-land. The kernel-maintainers decided to merge the ppc32 and ppc64 architectures into powerpc. That gave us some headaches, because a lot of the Makefiles changed as well.<\/p>\n
Since March I had problems to build a kernel with an included initramfs for the Pegasos (because an external initramfs could not be loaded). In the past I used the target I tested the patch in Bug 141153<\/a> with the Pegasos at home and added the 2006.0-splashimage into the initrd. Now I have a nice bootsplash during the rare reboots \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n The other result was a working test-CD for the upcoming 2006.1 release. Unfortunately I can’t test the Apple-part, as I don’t own a working Apple any more. So I have to rely on other devs or release-testers (we need more of them!). And testing with qemu isn’t possible. It dies shortly after the kernel has been loaded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With kernel 2.6.16 several things changed in PowerPC-land. The kernel-maintainers decided to merge the ppc32 and ppc64 architectures into powerpc. That gave us some headaches, because a lot of the Makefiles changed as well. Since March I had problems to build a kernel with an included initramfs for the Pegasos (because an external initramfs could … Continue reading Splashimage in the initramfs with genkernel on the Pegasos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/pylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/pylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/pylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/pylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/pylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/pylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/pylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/pylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/pylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/pylon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}make zImage.initrd<\/code>, but this failed now with genkernel. Today I finally found some time to look into that problem again, as I need a proper genkernel for release-building. I though I had to touch Makefiles and rewrite a couple of the kernel-build system… But in the end I could fix this problem with a simple two-liner-patch in genkernel, as only two pathes needed to be changed.<\/p>\n