Patching 2.6.10 with fbsplash

Question

Hi, this is my first post. I have just recently installed Arch on my PC having had Gentoo installed previously.
I am trying to set up gensplash and having a bit of difficulty at the very first hurdle, patching the kernel. I only want to patch it with the fbsplash patch from spock's website but am getting nowhere.
I notice that msg43 wrote, on Sat 09 July, that he patched his kernel using one of spock's patches. If you read this can you tell me what you had to do to accomplish this.
The kernel I have is 2.6.10-ARCH and I am trying to apply patch tbsplash-0.9.1-r1-2.6.10.patch using the command
patch -p6 -i
When this executes it stops at a Diff line and prompts with:
File to patch:
I presume that this is because the patch was written for Gentoo and their file directory. I have rem'd out some of the lines in the patch, the ones for the documents, but the next one refers to keyboard.c. What is the equivalent file in Arch?
As you can probably tell my knowledge of Linux is not great, I am on a big learning curve. This is why I installed Gentoo but for various reasons I decided to move over to AL. I did manage to get Gensplash worked with Gentoo.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

Answer 1

zimbo wrote:
Here are the changes, in blue, that I think I need to make to kernel26 PKGBUILD. Can someone indicate if they are correct, or not.
# Contributor: dibblethewrecker <dibblethewrecker.at.jiwe.org>
pkgname=kernel26
pkgver=2.6.12.3
pkgrel=$LOCALVERSION
leave that as one - the LOCALVERSION part will be added automatically
zimbo wrote:
pkgdesc="The Linux Kernel 2.6.12.3 with fbsplash"
url="http://www.kernel.org"
depends=('module-init-tools')
install=kernel26.install
##### add any patch sources to this section
source=(config ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v … er.tar.bz2; http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/g … -rc1.patch)
# Function to grab var from src
getvar() {
  old=$(cat Makefile | grep "^$1")
  echo $(echo ${old/"$1 ="/} | sed -e "s/[ ]*(.*)[ ]*/1/g")
  return 0
build() {
  cd $startdir/src/linux-$pkgver
  ##### Uncomment and apply any patches here
  patch -Np1 -i ../fbsplash-0.9.2-2.6.12-rc1.patch || return 1
  # get rid of the 'i' in i686
  carch=`echo $CARCH | sed 's|i||'`
  cat ../config | sed "s|#CARCH#|$carch|g" >./.config
  ##### Load config - uncomment your preferred config method
  #yes "" | make config
  #make oldconfig || return 1
  make menuconfig
  #make xconfig
  #make gconfig
Have I got the patch source array correct I inserted a semi-colon between the two entries?
No - all entries in the source array need to be separated by spaces with no new lines but you can use a  to escape a new line
e.g.
source=(config ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-$pkgver.tar.bz2
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/archive/fbsplash-0.9.2-2.6.12-rc1.patch)
zimbo wrote:
My further questions:
1. If I am placing this PKGBUILD in /var/abs/local/kernel do I also need to created a src and src/linux-2.6.12.3 directory?
No the PKGBUILD will do it all
zimbo wrote:2. I also need to place the default Arch config file and kernel26.install file in /var/abs/local/kernel, is that correct?
yes
zimbo wrote:3. There are two other patches in /var/abs/kernels/kernel26; cdburning and ndevfs. I presume my default 2.6.10-ARCH kernel was patched with them. Do I therefore need to point to them and add them under the patches to be applied section? Or, move them to /var/abs/local/kernel and they will be patched automatically?
move them to the /var/abs/local/kernel dir, include the patch names in the source array, then add the patch commands below the patch command you have included - you can copy the commands from the stock kernel PKGBUILD
zimbo wrote:4. I presume I run makepkg -g >>PKGBUILD before makepkg?
yup - to store the md5sums