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| author | Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> | 2006-12-07 00:45:58 +0100 | 
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> | 2006-12-06 16:41:21 -0800 | 
| commit | 620034c84d1d939717bdfbe02c51a3fee43541c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 7826b7c5c23d2cf6f68bdfc658791962e9eca12d /README | |
| parent | 6fc52f81a871e4c29ade34dd736a383906caf47e (diff) | |
| download | linux-620034c84d1d939717bdfbe02c51a3fee43541c3.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] A few small additions and corrections to README
Here's a small patch which
 - adds a few archs to the current list of supported platforms.
 - adds a few missing slashes at the end of URLs.
 - adds a few references to additional documentation.
 - adds "make config" to the list of possible configuration targets.
 - makes a few other minor changes.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
[ Ben Nizette <ben.nizette@iinet.net.au> points out AVR32 arch too ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 17 | 
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -	Linux kernel release 2.6.xx <http://kernel.org> +	Linux kernel release 2.6.xx <http://kernel.org/>  These are the release notes for Linux version 2.6.  Read them carefully,  as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the @@ -22,15 +22,17 @@ ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN?    Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher),    today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and -  UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, +  UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, Cell,    IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS, -  and Renesas M32R architectures. +  Cris, Xtensa, AVR32 and Renesas M32R architectures.    Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures    as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the    GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has    also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although    functionality is then obviously somewhat limited. +  Linux has also been ported to itself. You can now run the kernel as a +  userspace application - this is called UserMode Linux (UML).  DOCUMENTATION: @@ -113,6 +115,7 @@ INSTALLING the kernel:     version 2.6.12.2 and want to jump to 2.6.12.3, you must first     reverse the 2.6.12.2 patch (that is, patch -R) _before_ applying     the 2.6.12.3 patch. +   You can read more on this in Documentation/applying-patches.txt   - Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around: @@ -161,6 +164,7 @@ CONFIGURING the kernel:     only ask you for the answers to new questions.   - Alternate configuration commands are: +	"make config"      Plain text interface.  	"make menuconfig"  Text based color menus, radiolists & dialogs.  	"make xconfig"     X windows (Qt) based configuration tool.  	"make gconfig"     X windows (Gtk) based configuration tool. @@ -303,8 +307,9 @@ IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:   - If you compiled the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS you can send the dump     as is, otherwise you will have to use the "ksymoops" program to make -   sense of the dump.  This utility can be downloaded from -   ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops. +   sense of the dump (but compiling with CONFIG_KALLSYMS is usually preferred). +   This utility can be downloaded from +   ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/ .     Alternately you can do the dump lookup by hand:   - In debugging dumps like the above, it helps enormously if you can @@ -336,7 +341,7 @@ IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:     If you for some reason cannot do the above (you have a pre-compiled     kernel image or similar), telling me as much about your setup as -   possible will help.  +   possible will help.  Please read the REPORTING-BUGS document for details.   - Alternately, you can use gdb on a running kernel. (read-only; i.e. you     cannot change values or set break points.) To do this, first compile the  |