custom kernels and s390x

[Stephen Powell]

I maintain a Debian-specific custom-kernel-building web page at

http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm

Although it is Debian-specific, it is not s390x-specific. However,
I recently (today) revised that web page to contain a couple of
s390x-specific things that may be of interest to subscribers of
this list.

kernel-package does not contain any s390x support in the wheezy
version. The jessie version of kernel-package attempted to add
s390x support, but it didn't quite work. I have added links to
my web page listed above to two patches. The first patch adds s390x
support to the wheezy version of kernel-package. The second patch
fixes the s390x support in the jessie version of kernel-package.
These links can be found in the last paragraph of "Step 6: Install
kernel-package".

The second update is a tip for how to get "make deb-pkg" to work
on s390x, when it normally does not. See the "Alternatives"
section for this tip.

Perhaps this information will be useful to at least some of those
who subscribe to this list.

Cheers.
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[Stephen Powell]

Post by Stephen Powell
I maintain a Debian-specific custom-kernel-building web page at
http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm
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One thing I forgot to mention earlier is that there are links to a
couple of s390-specific bug fixes for the Linux kernel also.
One is for a 3215 hang problem. The other is for a tab problem
on a 3215. Also, just today, I revised the web page yet again
to provide a patch for the 3215 hang problem for wheezy kernels.
The patch listed in the bug report only works for jessie kernels.
The patch for the 3215 tab problem works for both wheezy and jessie.
This is in the "Alternatives" section.
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