Re: mol slower after distupgrade

On 10/3/05, Brian Ruth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > On Gentoo, the priority changes were causing performance problems with
> > > newer kernels.  To fix this, we applied this patch:
> > >
> > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/mol-0.9.70-nopriority.patch
> > >
> > > It comments out the priority changes and helps quite a bit with the speed.
>
> Must try this!
>
> I've had trouble getting MOL to compile from the sources on www.maconlinux.org
> for ages now, though - seems to be an issue with the 2.6.x API and the kernel
> modules. I've so far been using the Debian MOL kernel module package, which
> seems to have fixed kernel modules, but I'd need to be able to build MOL from
> scratch to be able to try this patch...
>
> Anyone have a solution? I'm using Debian (sarge and/or testing - I have both).

I am using debian unstable.  This works for me :

1) Preparing MOL using debian source-packages and the patch :
(removing all the debian mol* packages, we'll rebuild them)
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$ apt-get source mol mol-drivers-macosx
$ wget http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/mol-0.9.70-nopriority.patch
$ cd mol-0.9.70
$ patch -p0 <../mol-0.9.70-nopriority.patch
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
$ cd ../mol-drivers-macosx-0.9.70
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
$ cd ..
$ su -c "dpkg -i mol-modules-source_0.9.70-20_powerpc.deb
mol_0.9.70-20_powerpc.deb mol-drivers-macosx_0.9.70-1_powerpc.deb"
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2) Building kernel and mol-module :
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# apt-get install linux-source-2.6.xx
# cd /usr/src
# tar jxvf linux-source-2.6.xx.tar.bz2
# tar zvxf mol-modules.tar.gz
# cd linux-source-2.6.xx
# cp /boot/config-2.6.* .config
# make oldconfig    or    # make menuconfig
# make-kpkg clean
# make-kpkg --append-to-version=-yyyymmdd --revision=2.6.xx-x
kernel_image modules_image
(2.6.xx-x is the debian version (see
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.xx/version.Debian))
# cd ..
# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.xx-yyyymmdd_2.6.xx-x_powerpc.deb
mol-modules-2.6.xx-yyyymmdd_*+2.6.xx-x_powerpc.deb
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Best regards,
Bin

> Or could the patches to the kernel modules be incorporated into the source
> tarball...?
>
> Brian.
>
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