[jp] Sync problems

On Wed 22 Nov 06,  9:37 PM, Donn Washburn <n5xwb at hal-pc.org> said:
> Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > On Wed 22 Nov 06,  8:50 PM, Donn Washburn <n5xwb at hal-pc.org> said:
> >> Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >>> On Wed 22 Nov 06,  7:26 PM, Donn Washburn <n5xwb at hal-pc.org> said:
> >>>> You may have just reminded me why mine has been failing -> "visor"
> >>>> "lsmod | grep visor" showed nothing.  Thanks for the reminder.
> >>> You can check to see if it's built directly into the kernel (as opposed to a
> >>> loadable module) with:
> >>>
> >>>    $  zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i visor
> >>>
> >>> Pete
> >> Neat thing is you pointed out another way to for a problem.
> >> I am running a home built custom non SuSE kernel - it also has 
> >> "CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR=m"
> >>
> >> Yes it is part of SuSE10.1 kernel modules.  However, as usual they 
> >> didn't put "visor" in /etc/modprobe.conf.  I fought this problem about 5 
> >> years ago and just forgot it.
> >  
> > What is hypervisor?  Never heard of it!
> > 
> > Pete
>
> it is the only VISOR that came from
> "zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i visor"
 
That doesn't tell me what it is.  It only tells me where you saw the word,
and I gathered you found it in /proc/config.gz from the context of the our
conversation.  :)


> So if 2.6.18.1 made config.gz then that is where it came from. 
> Otherwise it was from SuSE 10.1 2.6.16.21-0.25-default
> 
> As for where it comes from period - it is the kernel variable set to 
> modules (=m) which can be found in /usr/src/linux-$[version}source/.config

OK.  You forced me to download the latest stable Linux kernel, 2.6.18.

>From reading the kernel source, I don't think hypervisor has anything to do
with Handspring or PDA's at all.  It appears to be a unified virtual console
driver developed by IBM.

Peter