Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Michael Kronsteiner wrote:

>I can only ACK this, as the reddhat kernels are usually highly patched
>(2.6.9-1.667 where everything after 2.6.9 is a redhat thing... hmmmm...
>2.6.9 is ok but build (? or patchlevel) 1667 is a little much...
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>btw this is from fc3 on an wintel, but even patchlevel 1.667 seems high even
>if rh is contributing to the kernel...
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>brgds
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>Mike
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>>--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
>>Von: Alan Young <ayoung at teleport.com>
>>An: Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
>>Betreff: Re: Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT
>>Datum: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:31:57 -0700
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>>Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
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>>>Simon Tierney wrote:
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>>>>Hello,
>>>>I have DEC 7305 with SMP and RedHat7.2 on it and I have been waiting 
>>>>for an
>>>>Alphacore distribution with SMP working reliably.  I can test a new
>>>>installation ISO.   When Alphacore2 is ready please post a link.
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>>>Well, you should check AC1 then. Like I said in my e-mail - AC2 doesn't 
>>>have working SMP kernel. :(
>>>As far I know - SMP kernel crashes on early boot stages, so remote 
>>>debugging might be impossible
>>>(I am not an expert here). The kernel version in AC2 is 
>>>2.6.12-1.1447_FC4axp. If someone is
>>>running SMP kernel version higher than 2.6.11 please post here (the 
>>>vanilla kernel seems to be broken
>>>too).
>>>
>>>You could download small iso image and check if it could be bootable on 
>>>your machine:
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>ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/2.0/test/ac2-qboot2.iso
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>>>This is boot iso without install packages, but goot enough to boot into 
>>>"resque" mode.
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>>>Thank you,
>>>Sergey.
>>>tsv at solvo.ru
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>>I generally have had better luck with the generic kernels vs. the RH
>>ones.  I have a SMP DP264 that was running on generic 2.6.12.2 and
>>I just moved it up to 2.6.15.4.  I'll download the test iso and give
>>it a boot to see what happens.
>>
>>Alan
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Thank you. Good to know. So, we have good chance to fix it. If it is 
known that some higher kernel versions
work - we could fix our kernel too.
We stick with this version only because other clustering modules require 
it (I have two Alphas and one AMD64
running in the same useless cluster :) ).

Regards,
Sergey.
tsv at solvo.ru