Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[bentonbee]

Where is the download to the puppy version Barry was talking about
in his blog?-

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=00779

[Dewbie]

bentonbee wrote:

[bentonbee]

Retro-Puppy 218 alpha is no longer available.

Thank you for letting me know.
Mike

[zekebaby]

I decided to install 2.14X Top10 on my vintage 1999 Panasonic Toughbook CF-T2 - Welcome to Jurassic Computing, I had played around with 2.14X as a live distro before, but never tried a frugal install. Works great except . . .

I found a bug! My savefile seems to keep most of my settings, but not all of them (transmission speed settings for example). Hmmmm. I also noticed the following error flash on my screen at shutdown:

[starhawk]

That toughbook -- if the specs I found are correct -- should run a lot of newer Puppies / Puplets just fine. You don't need ClassicPup for a Pentium M! (It's really more for P2/P3 hardware -- and then only if you're quite patient.)

I'll not make a mess by recommending other Puplets in this thread (unless ttuuuxxx says it's OK), but if you want to PM me I'll gladly give you a list of ones to try. I will say that most of the Puppies / Puplets with an active download link will work absolutely fine as long as they don't mention a little thing called "PAE" that doesn't work with (most) Pentium M CPUs.

By the way -- I was playing around with some hardware a couple months ago that had a Celeron M 600MHz (yeah, they made one that slow -- it's the ULV version) and wound up using one of the REALLY recent Puplets on it because the only things that would boot were either (a) even older than ClassicPup or (b) brand spankin' new. Ah, fun with weird hardware (lol)...

[greengeek]

[yellodog]

[Dewbie]

yellodog wrote:

[yellodog]

[tubeguy]

[clarf]

[clarf]

[yellodog]

Thank you, clarf. I'm gonna check this out.

[clarf]

Hi,

I have searched for the individual kernel patchs used on 2.6.18.X, just found some notes on http://puppylinux.com/development/compilekernel.htm:

"Puppy 2.12 has kernel 2.6.18.1 and has three patches; squashfs, default console loglevel and via shutdown fix."

BarryK additional notes:

"loglevel -- for Puppy quiet bootup
dpath -- maybe, for dazuko
ksize -- maybe, for aufs" (Classic puppy 2.14X use unionfs, not needed)

1. dpath:

http://fossies.org/linux/privat/dazuko-2.3.9.tar.gz:a/dazuko-2.3.9/README.linux26

Note: This document indicates that the patch is only needed when running an SMP kernel and __d_path() is not exported, although 2.6.18.X kernels on Puppy 2 versions are not compiled with SMP these patches where included, maybe for other applications requirements or older dazuko versions...

Note2: I found the reason BarryK compiled the driver to not use its inbuilt function (http://puppylinux.com/news/news213-214.htm), the pre-patched kernel can be configured for SMP:

"I also compiled the Dazuko device driver. This is used by some virus scanner and intrusion detection software, and the source package has examples that show how someone can write their own software to use it.
I configured with '--mapfile=/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.1/System.map --enable-syscalls --disable-local-dpath' -- the latter option means that the device driver will use the '__d_path' function exported from the kernel rather than its own inbuilt function, which apparently is required for an SMP kernel (the inbuilt __d_path function is unsafe with a SMP kernel)."

Patch attached (from dazuko-2.3.9.tar.gz).

"Usage:
patch /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/fs/dcache.c patch_dpath.diff"

2. Loglevel:

Information from: http://bkhome.org/sources/kernel-2.6.21.7-pup4.1retro/patches-required.txt
-----------

"I edited kernel/printk.c:

/* We show everything that is MORE important than this.. */
#define MINIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL 1 /* Minimum loglevel we let people use */
/* BK change from 7 to 3...
#define DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL 7 */ /* anything MORE serious than KERN_DEBUG */
#define DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL 3"

3. ksize, required by aufs

Patch attached.

"Usage:
patch -p0 < ../ksize.patch"

4. via shutdown fix:

Well it was a hard one to find, the history of this patch on Puppy starts in this thread: http://puppylinux.com/news/news211-212.htm,



Quote:

Ted Dog Saturday, November 4, 2006, 08:38 AM One of my three VIA C3 800Mz machine errors with this same bug listed here. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/251 found in v2.12beta1, so FYI it is NOT a puppy compile bug. But it kills the use of one of my computers Ted Dog Saturday, November 4, 2006, 08:43 AM fixed here http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/17/62



Basically this kernel patch is used to remove a previous patch that was added on 2.6.18 kernel, and later definitively removed for 2.6.18.2 and 2.6.19 kernels (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3691). For this reason this patch is not used on later Puppys kernels and not included in BarryK "linux-2.6.18.8-src-patched_loglevel_squashfs_unionfs.tar.gz" file.

Patch attached.

"Usage:
patch quirks.c < via.patch"

Regards,

[yellodog]