Re: [Vserver] Re: about Vserver for ARM

From: Wenbin Zhang <zhangwenbin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon 05 Mar 2007 - 22:42:05 GMT
Message-ID: <78671ac40703051442g6d533af7gd5d0bd1a4ba1faaa@mail.gmail.com>

>
> perfect ... I'll send you my postal address
> in a private mail then ...

:-) I will keep you posted on my progress...

> But before I do that, let me try it firstly :-)
>
> sure ...
>
> > Yes I can switch to 2.6, no problems.
>
> in this case, I'd suggest to do so, for several
> reasons, one being the fact that the 2.0/2.2
> branches are much more performant than the 1.2
> branch, another being that the 2.2 patches provide
> a lot more useful features ...

I see, thanks! Now I have switched to 2.6 already.

> However I checked the arm-ezx patch,
> > http://www.openezx.org/download/,
>
> > all the patches are for linux 2.6.16 kernel.
>
> yeah, folks love the 2.6.16 kernel :)
>
> > However, for Vserver patches,
> > http://ftp.linux-vserver.org/pub/kernel/vs2.0/,
>
> > they are only 2.6.12, 2.6.14, 2.6.17 version.
> > So the two kind of patches are not for the same
> > version of 2.6 kernel.
>
> check out this one:
>
>
> http://people.linux-vserver.org/~dhozac/p/k/patch-2.6.16.37-vs2.0.3-rc1.diff

Thanks!

> Moreover, even they are for the same version, for
> > example, 2.6.16 kernel, I guess there are still
> > conflicts if we apply the two patches simutaneously.
>
> > We have two ways:
> > 1) apply openezx patch, then Vserver patch
> > 2) apply Vserver patch, then openexz patch
> >
> > But we cannot guarantee the two patch have no i
> > conflicts each other, any ideas?
>
> yes, that's called merging, and that is what you
> have to do when you got more than one patch ...
>
> of course, it helps a lot if you know one or even
> better all of the involved patches :)

Yes, I think I need try merge the two patches. So far I still don't know how
difficult it is :-)

Thanks,
Wenbin

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