[okl4-developer] Linux kernel 2.6.18 port to L4 and tpm driver

[Carl van Schaik]

Jorge is correct, we don't have a 2.6.18 port available, but it should
not be that difficult to merge up from thre released 2.6.10. (Assuming
you have knowledge in Linux internals)

regards,
Carl

Jorge Torres wrote:
>
> Oh I see, you meant on top of OKL4, well I don't know what the main
> differences are between 2.6.10 and 2.6.18, but as long as they are
> architecture independent changes, porting would be pretty much
> straight forward (pretty much a copy-paste thing), for architecture
> dependant code you should write a paravirtualized code for it, you can
> see more about it on kernel/arch/l4, anyways it will be very useful to
> have a diff between the two, I'm pretty much a newbie on this, But I
> believe that the real hard work has already been done, so
> porting(upgrading) to new kernel versions can't be that complicated,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jorge
>
>
>
> On 7/20/07, *Kalamkar, Dhiraj D* <dhiraj.d.kalamkar at intel.com
> <mailto:dhiraj.d.kalamkar at intel.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thank Jorge, but sorry for the confusion.
>
>     I wanted to say port o Linux for L4/Iguana i.e. wombat 2.6.18.
>
>      
>
>     I don't think L4Linux can be used instead of wombat directly on
>     okl4. Correct me if I am wrong.
>
>      
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Dhiraj
>
>      
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     *From:* Jorge Torres [mailto: jorge.torres.maldonado at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jorge.torres.maldonado at gmail.com>]
>     *Sent:* Friday, July 20, 2007 8:52 PM
>     *To:* Kalamkar, Dhiraj D
>     *Cc:* developer at okl4.org <mailto:developer at okl4.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: [okl4-developer] Linux kernel 2.6.18 port to L4 and
>     tpm driver
>
>      
>
>     Sure,
>
>      
>
>     Recent L4Linux is 2.6.21, but you will find 2.6.18 there too.
>
>      
>
>     http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/LinuxOnL4/
>     <http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/LinuxOnL4/>
>
>      
>
>     Cheers,
>
>      
>
>     Jorge 
>
>      
>
>     On 7/20/07, *Kalamkar, Dhiraj D* < dhiraj.d.kalamkar at intel.com
>     <mailto:dhiraj.d.kalamkar at intel.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Is there any port of Linux kernel 2.6.18 for L4? Or alternatively, can
>     anyone tell me how difficult it will be, given I know very little
>     about
>     Linux kernels.
>     And which files I need to touch if I want to do that.
>
>     I have a tpm driver for 2.6.18 kernel but that is not working on
>     2.6.10
>     kernel; that is why I am trying to port Linux kernel 2.6.18 to L4.
>     Also, does anyone use tpm 1.2 on L4?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Dhiraj Kalamkar
>
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