[OpenAFS] AFS on SLES9 on s390

[Horst Birthelmer]

On Dec 7, 2005, at 12:09 PM, lal anil wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am trying to configure AFS clinet on SLES9 on s390 machine. The  
> OS details are as shown below
>
> [....openafs-1.3.78] # cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.5-7.97-s390 (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3  
> (SuSE Linux)) #1 SMP Fri Jul 2 14:21:59 UTC 2004
>
> # tar xvf openafs-1.3.78-src.tar
> # cd openafs-1.3.78/
>
> # cp /boot/symvers-2.6.5-7.97-s390-s390.gz /usr/src/linux/ 
> Module.symvers.gz
> # cd /usr/src/linux
> # gunzip Module.symvers.gz
> # make modules_prepare
>
> # ./configure --enable-largefile-fileserver --enable-namei- 
> fileserver --enable-supergroups --enable-fast-restart --enable- 
> transarc-paths --with-linux-kernel-headers=/usr/src/ 
> linux-2.6.5-7.97  --disable-kernel-module --with-afs- 
> sysname=i386_linux26
>
> # ./configure --enable-largefile-fileserver --enable-namei- 
> fileserver --enable-supergroups --enable-fast-restart --enable- 
> transarc-paths --with-linux-kernel-headers=/usr/src/ 
> linux-2.6.5-7.97 --with-afs-sysname=i386_linux26
>
...

Are you really sure the sysname should be i386 on a s390?
I don't think so ;-)

BTW, if that's a real S390 and not the S390z, OpenAFS was never  
tested with kernels 2.6.x, AFAIK.

Horst