Re: Stable Alpha on 2.2? How do we build a stable install?

["Alexander V. Lukyanov" <lav yars free net>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 10:12:11PM -0400, Eric Bohm wrote:
> >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander V Lukyanov <lav@yars.free.net> writes:
>     Alexander> This bug was fixed by this patch:
>     Alexander> ftp://ftp.twiddle.net/pub/rth/d-asn-2.gz
> 
> Well it was worth a shot.
> 
> But after applying the patch, recompiling (about 10 or so tries to
> complete) then rebooting with the new kernel it failed on a make clean
> boot in linux-2.2.10.  Might be more stable, but the patch doesn't
> seem to have made much difference.

Hmm. It worked for me. Anyway, if 2.2.7 is stable for you, try this patch
on 2.2.10:

--- arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S	Mon Jun 21 21:18:50 1999
+++ arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S	Tue Jun 22 20:28:04 1999
@@ -525,5 +525,6 @@
 	.prologue 0
 	bsr	$1,do_switch_stack
 	call_pal PAL_swpctx
-	unop
+	lda	$16,-2($31)
+	call_pal PAL_tbi
 	bsr	$1,undo_switch_stack

   Alexander.