Messages in this thread | | | From | George France <> | Subject | Re: kbuild 2.5.26 - arch/alpha | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:00:50 -0400 |
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On Tuesday 23 July 2002 13:01, Martin Brulisauer wrote: > On 23 Jul 2002, at 11:05, George France wrote: > > that version for a while until it is stable. In the past few months most > > of the efforts have been spent on 2.4.9. Currently there have been > > discussions in regard to: > > > > 1) porting all those patches for 2.4.9 forward to 2.4.[18-19] and 2.5.x. > > I am currently running 2.4.18 from SuSE without any (major) > problems. I found it here: > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/sf/axp/7.1/RPMS/kernel-source- > 2.4.18.SuSE-0.alpha.rpm. > Then I took arch/alpha/kernel/core_cia.c from version 2.4.12 > (the current version does not run on XLT's booting with MILO; > the latest one is 2.4.12).
I have not tried Stefan's 2.4.18 kernel. I am glad to hear that it works for you. I will give it a try.
> > 2) taking a look at the latest 2.5.x in the next few weeks, as we are > > aware that 2.5.x does not compile on Alpha. > > Hopefully I can fix core_cia.c to run on XLT's (it's hard to find any > documentation on this toppic) and arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c for > machines booting with linload.exe/MILO because the hwrpb > struct is built by MILO and does not match the one booting from > SRM (eg. empty percpu struct resulting in a cpucount of zero > in /proc/cpuinfo).
I am not very familiar with the XLT systems. Maybe Jay can help. He has been working on Alpha systems for a very long time.
Jay, do you have any suggestions???
Best Regards,
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