Re: New kernel 2.1.130 problems?

["B. James Phillippe" <bryan terran org>]

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Designer 7 wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm considering trying the new 2.1.130 kernel. It is my understanding 
> that older kernels required Alpha patches in order to work on Alpha 
> machines. Does this new kernel still require those patches? 

Hello.

kernel-2.1.130 works okay on Avanti (I have a mustang; AS200).  There are
no longer any special Alpha patches (at least, not that I'm aware of).
There are only a few problems that I've found:

1.) kernel can deadlock occasionally without warning and without logging.
2.) ftape support for Alpha has been abandoned.

Oh, btw, I think there is still an issue with using egcs-1.0.3 with Haifa
scheduler.  Any recent 1.1 egcs compiler I think is okay.

Good luck,
-bp
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