Re: Alpha Core 3

[Oliver Falk <oliver linux-kernel at>]

Sergey Tikhonov schrieb:
> Jay Estabrook wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:03:13AM -0300, Fernando Carnero wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > jejejeje, yep of, less diplomatic but same answer :))
> > > ATI is a bad chice to work in Linux enviroment, I probe with ATI 
> > > driver, glx and DRI and never work fine, I prefere lost my time 
> > > eating pizza and not configuring ATI ;)
> > >   
> >
> > I've had nothing but good results recently under AC3 with many Radeons
> > and even a Rage 128, including reasonable stability with 3D apps.
> >
> > The older Mac64 cards may be an entirely different story, however,
> > given your experiences.
> >
> > Rergardless, here's  what I think happened to make the "atimisc" driver
> > fail on Alpha:
> >
> > Here we see the "./configure" line that starts the build:
> >
> >  
> >
> > > + ./configure --build=alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu 
> > > --host=alphaev56-unknown-linux
> > > -gnu --target=alpha-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr 
> > > --exec-pref
> > > ix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc 
> > > --datadir=/usr/s
> > > hare --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib 
> > > --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --loc
> > > alstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man 
> > > --infodir=/usr
> > > /share/info --disable-static
> > >   
> >
> > I've not been able to figure out where the "alphaev56-*" is always
> > coming from, as I know I'm building on an EV6 machine...

Check out /etc/rpm/platform; We need to fix this for the different 
sub-archs I believe... And then check /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/*.

Arg. Even uname -m reports the wrong thing on my DS10. :-( Havn't 
checked the AS1000 yet.

[root gosa ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep EV; uname -m; cat /etc/rpm/platform
cpu model               : EV67
alpha
alpha-redhat-linux

-of
Best,
Oliver