Alpha Core 1.0a

Fri Feb 25 19:26:53 UTC 2005

Lots of small bugs :)), I try to fix tham in these upcoming days.
I take out 4 days of rest, mostly i want to dedicate tham for hacking.

    Someone broke smp only 2 days ago someone fix it too.My SATA
card works now, kernel looks better, so i will push out newer kernel.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sergey Tikhonov" <tsv at solvo.ru>
To: "Linux and Red Hat on Alpha processors" <axp-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: Alpha Core 1.0a

> Hello,
>
> Thank you very much for this detailed report. I hope we will try to 
> resolve the issues.
>
> Adding the following to yum config will give you access to updates 
> released by Red Hat for FC3.
>
> [updates-released]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> baseurl=ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/1.0a/updates/alpha/
>
> Unfortunatelly, the packages are not tested very much, but with your help 
> we could get it working.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrija Pantovic wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I upgraded my AlphaCore 0.9 with provided packages and did some tests.
>>Here is what I found:
>>
>>- KERNEL
>>
>>- the provided kernel package 2.6.10-1.1110axp_FC4 is actualy 2.6.11-rc2
>>with additional patches including those Alpha related
>>- Qlogic ISP10x0 driven by qla1280 driver (instead of old qlogcisp)
>>works ok
>>- alsa seems to run properly finaly (on my built in ESS1888 in PWS600)
>>- USB built in controller (Contaq Microsystems 82c693) is initialised
>>properly (a very new thing)
>>- iptables is reporting "Invalid argument" trying to add entry in "nat"
>>table - recompilation of user space utilities did not help. My kernel
>>build based on 2.6.10-1.766_FC3  source RPM with Alpha based patches
>>from 2.6.10-1.1110axp_FC4 (a bit modified) fixed the problem but my USB
>>controller is not initialised now (the ohci USB host seems to be fixed
>>in 2.6.11-rc2 patch)
>>- boot sequence take a long time on 2.6.10-1.1110axp_FC4 during
>>rc.sysinit execution. I found that hotplug scsi takes enormous time. The
>>problem disappeared with 2.6.10-1.766_FC3
>>
>>- XORG
>>
>>- the provided Xorg v.6.8.1 does not work on my PWS600 with Matrox G200
>>(it is segfaulting). I fixed the problem downgrading to xorg packages
>>xorg-x11* to 6.7.0 from AlphaCore 0.9 and it looks ok so far. The
>>problem with 6.8.1 seems to be the missing Alpha specific elfloader
>>relocations - type 10 R_ALPHA_SREL32 (the patch for this one already
>>exists and is applied in 6.7.0 AlphaCore package) and type 28
>>R_ALPHA_BRSGP (there is no patch and should be written)
>>
>>- XIMIAN EVOLUTION
>>
>>- I depend quite much on this package but it does not work -
>>evolution-dataserver is constantly crashing. I tried building the latest
>>stable evolution package (v.2.0.4) but compilation failed. I succeeded
>>building development source RPMs from FC3 (v.2.1.5) and it works
>>decently well so far (just writing this e-mail in it)
>>
>>- SCREEN
>>
>>- the supplied package does not contain the Alpha specific patch needed
>>so it does not work - problem fixed installing the patched package from
>>AlphaCore 0.9
>>
>>I tested many other components (md RAID, KDE, gaim, firefox, Mozilla,
>>xmms, xchat, rdesktop, vnc, vtund, ssh, xterm ... etc.)  and general
>>impression after mentioned fixes is that system works quite well - great
>>job guys !
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:21 +0200, Balint Cristian wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> After a timeout and slow development of alpha core, me [Cristian Balint]
>>>and a new volunteer Sergey Tikhonov, finaly developed next release of 
>>>alpha core 1.0
>>>wich is equivalent with fedora-FC3 but with lots of alpha specific fixes.
>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunatley Mike Barnes haven't the time these days to take major part 
>>> of
>>>development on this new tree, so we decided to release AlphaCore 1.0a now 
>>>as-is.
>>>
>>> The main personality of the tree is the fact the Sergely fixed some 
>>> important
>>>threading suport in glibc to switch corectly between nptl and 
>>>linuxthreads, so application run more stable and few bugs present even in 
>>>0.9 are gone now. The second major thing is the kernel, we used 2.6.10 
>>>because between 2.6.6<>2.6.10 the mainline kernel was broken for alpha, 
>>>and we disable few things wich are unstable/unusable for alpha arch. In 
>>>rest everything else is fedora specific changes between FC2-->FC3.
>>>
>>>
>>> We release this under the version "1.0a" and plan that "1.0" version 
>>> will be marked only on the final iso images.
>>>
>>> The iso images will be based exact on that curent tree, unless someone 
>>> discover something showstopper thing to fix, and will try in a mather of 
>>> 2 weeks to pack it.
>>>
>>>So, the path to AlphaCore 1.0a tree:
>>>ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/1.0a/
>>>
>>>And olso there is a yum config file wich point to this tree:
>>>ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/yum.conf-1.0a
>>>
>>> Mirrors are welcome, testers and volunteers are welcome, any feedback 
>>> suggestions are accounted in the final iso pack.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thank you all,
>>>~cristian
>>>
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