Re: em86 & kernels later than 2.0.30

[Eric Lee Green <eric linux-hw com>]

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Bruce Williams wrote:
> 
> While building 2.0.35, I noticed support for Linux/i386/ELF binaries,
> does this do what the 2.0.30 patch that comes with em86 does?  After
> building the kernel and enabling this, em86 refuses to work.
> 
>         Your kernel does not support 31-bit addressing!
>         Please apply the EM86 kernel patch and try again.

Note that the 2.0.35 kernel that Red Hat ships in RPM (source) form
already has the em86 patches applied. A look at the .srpm package shows a
very LARGE alpha-only patch being applied to the kernel, of which much is
the em86 stuff. 

I got em86 working just by compiling Red Hat's kernel for my machine
(i.e., NOT the kernel off of ftp.kernel.org) with that i386 option, and
installing the RPM's off of DEC's FTP site.  Unfortunately, my efforts to
run the i386 Netscape Communicator failed because of the library
situation, and I haven't had a chance to figure out which libraries are
the culprits yet. 

Eric Lee Green   eric@linux-hw.com         Linux Hardware Solutions
Systems Specialist                    Quality Systems Designed For Linux