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From: gclarkii@NeoSoft.com (Gary Clark II)
Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl13q/ftape-pl13 compile problems
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services -- +1 713 684 5969
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 21:19:55 GMT
Message-ID: <CGEDx9.5wF@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
Keywords: ftape kernel
References: <>> <77Ur022K56vE01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
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In article <77Ur022K56vE01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> szb50@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Sid Boyce) writes:
>
>      Messing about with pl13 and ftape mods, got all up OK, haven't yet
>got the tape to show any signs of life .... one day I hope!
>      updated to pl13q, had to add #include <sched.h> to calibr.c, also
>hand patched the code in drivers subdirectory. Compile runs OK, ld to link
>zImage fails, kernel.o reporting undefined symbols referenced from text/data
>segment, the references are "jiffies_offset" and "startup_time". sched.h is
>included everywhere it is needed. ksyms.s has these symbols listed of course,
>but investigations so far seems to point to ksyms.o as cause, I removed
>ksyms.o from the makefile and it complained about something else. I have yet
>to try removing these symbols from ksyms.s to see what effect there is.
>     Hopefully we'll see code all marching in step soon again, it is messy
>getting messier.
>Any help gratefully received.
>Regards  .... Sid (G3VBV) .. Amdahl (UK) ..

Not a flame, but why do people cross post stuff to both comp.os.linux and
the comp.os.386bsd.* groups when the question is for Linux only?  I can
understand the "Which is better" threads doing this, but regular stuff???

Gary

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