Re: Alpha Core 3

[Oliver Falk <oliver linux-kernel at>]

Sergey Tikhonov schrieb:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:27 +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
>   
> > 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
> >     
> I see the /usr/lib/rpm/macros defines _host and other vars as alphaev56
> (I guess this is because the package was build on my ev56 machine).
>
> Try to run /usr/lib/rpm/config.guess. What does it guess about your
> machine?
>   

[root gosa ~]# /usr/lib/rpm/config.guess
alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu

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