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<body class='hmmessage'><BR>Hi,<BR> <BR>I'm having some trouble building the 2.6.26 kernel on a Playstation 3 (Please be patient with me)...<BR> <BR>I downloaded <A href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/" target=_blank>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/</A><A href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2" target=_blank><U><FONT face="" color=#0000ff>linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2</FONT></U></A> <BR> <BR>I then downloaded the PS3 patch for the 2.6.26 kernel at<BR><U><FONT face="" color=#810081><A href="http://www.eu.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/ps3/ps3-linux-kernel/" target=_blank>http://www.eu.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/ps3/ps3-linux-kernel/</FONT></U></A><A href="http://www.eu.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/ps3/ps3-linux-kernel/patch-ps3-linux-2.6.26-stable.0.bz2" target=_blank><U><FONT face="" color=#810081>patch-ps3-linux-2.6.26-stable.0.bz2</FONT></U></A> <BR><BR>I untarred the <A href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2" target=_blank><U><FONT face="" color=#0000ff>linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2</FONT></U></A> file with:<BR>tar xjf linux-2.6.26.tar.bz2<BR><BR>
Next, I descended into the created linux-2.6.26 directory and places the <A href="http://www.eu.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/ps3/ps3-linux-kernel/patch-ps3-linux-2.6.26-stable.0.bz2" target=_blank><U><FONT face="" color=#810081>patch-ps3-linux-2.6.26-stable.0.bz2</FONT></U></A> there.<BR>
<BR>Next I tried to patch the code with the <A href="http://www.eu.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/ps3/ps3-linux-kernel/patch-ps3-linux-2.6.26-stable.0.bz2" target=_blank><U><FONT face="" color=#810081>patch-ps3-linux-2.6.26-stable.0.bz2</FONT></U></A> patch with :<BR>bzcat patch-ps3-linux-2.6.26-stable.0.bz2 | patch -p1<BR>(That seemed to work with no problems)<BR> <BR>Next I did:<BR>sed -i s@'EXTRAVERSION ='@'EXTRAVERSION = -20080723'@ Makefile<BR> <BR>Next I did:<BR> make oldconfig<BR>... and got : <BR>linux-2.6.26]# make oldconfig<BR> HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep<BR> HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc<BR> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.<FONT face="">o</FONT><BR> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.<FONT face="">o</FONT><BR> SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c<BR> SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c<BR> SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c<BR> HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o<BR> HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf<BR>scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/powerpc/Kconfig<BR>arch/powerpc/Kconfig:221: can't open file "arch/powerpc/perfmon/Kconfig"<BR>make[1]: *** [oldconfig] Error 1<BR>make: *** [oldconfig] Error 2<BR><BR>Something seems wrong... <BR> <BR>Any ideas? What have I done wrong? Have I missed a step?<BR>Again... I've very sorry to be bugging you with this...<BR> <BR>Thanks in advance,<BR>John<BR> <BR> <BR><br /><hr />Find out how to make Messenger your very own TV! <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/101719648/direct/01/' target='_new'>Try it Now!</a></body>
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