Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Linux 2.1 on an Alpha SX164 | Date | Wed, 04 Feb 1998 22:33:22 +0000 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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Following my recent question about whether it's possible to run 2.1 series kernels on an SX164, the answer is now yes. I've ported the parts of "alpha-patches-2.0.32-0.1" which are relevant to SX164 support. The patch is available at ftp://dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk/pub/kernel/alpha-SX164-2.1.85.gz
Could some people with other types of Alpha machine please apply this and check I haven't screwed something else up, please?
Also, I have some questions...
Q1: What's the official status of the Alpha port? 2.0.x seems unusable without the patches from ftp.digital.com, and 2.1.x doesn't have half of those patches in either. Who maintains them, and why are they not ported to, and included in, 2.1.x? 2.1.84 didn't look like it compiled on _any_ Alpha platform, because of references to local_bh_count
Q2: What's the point of binfmt_em86 when you still need the extra patches for 31-bit addressing? Are these not included because of GPL problems?
BTW, The em86 patch from ftp.digital.com didn't apply cleanly to 2.1.85; there's a working copy at ftp://dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk/pub/kernel/alpha-linux-2.1.85-em86-diffs
Happy Hacking.
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