2.4.18-0.26a kernel RPMS

[Bob Lindell <lindell ISI EDU>]

I've patched, compiled, and built 2.4.18-0.26a kernel RPMS for the
alpha.  This is based on the 2.4.18-0.26 kernel from the RedHat rawhide
distribution.  A small patch includes back ports of some functions from
the 2.5 kernel to get it to compile.

Seems to running fine on my PC164 IDE and SCSI systems.  There are a few
modules with undefined symbols that I did not attempt to fix.  See below.

The r/w near the end of the filesystem is still present.  It is also
reproducible on my x86 machine running the same kernel.  The problem
seems to be sectors that are at the end of the disk that are less than
a multiple of the ext2 block size.  For example, on a filesystem with
4K blocks, the last 7, 512 byte sectors may not be readable.  This has
not caused any filesystem corruption problems for me to date, but
mke2fs doesn't like it.  I have to use a 2.2.19 kernel to make new
partitions on a disk.

See http://www.isi.edu/~lindell/linux/RPMS/ for both source and binary RPMS.

Bob

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-0.26a/kernel/drivers/char/
drm/sis.o
depmod:         sis_malloc_Ra3329ed5
depmod:         sis_free_Rced25333
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-0.26a/kernel/drivers/video
/pm3fb.o
depmod:         fbgen_switch
depmod:         fbgen_get_var
depmod:         fbgen_get_cmap
depmod:         fbgen_set_disp
depmod:         fbgen_pan_display
depmod:         fbgen_get_fix
depmod:         fbgen_install_cmap
depmod:         fbgen_update_var
depmod:         fbgen_do_set_var
depmod:         fbgen_blank
depmod:         fbgen_set_cmap
depmod:         fbgen_set_var
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-0.26a/kernel/net/ipv4/ipvs
/ip_vs.o
depmod:         sys_wait4
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-0.26a/kernel/net/tux/tux.o
depmod:         sys_wait4