[OpenAFS] Red Hat 7.3 bigmem kernel modules

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:41:49 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Lee Damon wrote:

> Kernel: Red Hat 7.3 2.4.20-18.7bigmem
> OpenAFS version: 1.2.9
> Processor: p4 Xeon (dual-proc SMP)
> RAM: 4GB
> UNAME: Linux bird47 2.4.20-18.7bigmem #1 SMP Thu May 29 06:59:28 EDT 2003 i686 unknown
>
> We just received our first systems with 4GB of RAM.  All of a sudden
> we're using the bigmem kernel instead of the regular ones.
>
> As far as I can tell a patch to support these kernels was done in 1.2.4.
> However, I can't seem to get a useful kernel built.   I get everything
> from the below quoted error message to simple panics.
>
> Since I'm lame and can't find anything anywhere that says how I should
> be building bigmem kernels (as opposed to what I've been doing for the
> past several months to build regular ones) I seem to have no choice but
> to further bother and annoy the people here with my query.

It's a RedHat kernel, isn't it?

./configure --enable-redhat-buildsys --whatever-else
make MPS="MP SP BM"

when you build, should do it, IIRC.

If it's not a RedHat kernel, perhaps that's not it.