Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Alan Young wrote:

> Alan Young wrote:
>
>> Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
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>>> Alan Young wrote:
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>>>> The test iso booted ok on my DP264.  It looks like it found all the
>>>> hardware and loaded drivers ok.  If you need more info, let me
>>>> know.  Maybe the problem only affects certain platforms and/or
>>>> hardware???  :-\
>>>
>>>
>>> The kernel used for installation is UP one, that is why it worked.
>>> Only SMP kernel doesn't work (at least the one we are trying to use).
>>>
>>> Thank you for test,
>>
>>
>> Oh, that's not a good test at all now is it? :)
>>
>> I pulled down the kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4axp.src.rpm that was
>> mentioned elsewhere in this thread and recompiled it.  It crashed.
>> I was able to capture a log and a traceback on the serial console.
>> It is attached below.  Hope this helps more...
>>
>> Alan
>>
> <crash log snipped>
>
> I've done some random testing and I was not able to identify the
> cause of the crash.  However, I did find something that does work.
> I tried a newer Fedora Core 4 kernel.  I compiled 
> kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4.src.rpm for SMP and am able to boot it on
> my 2 CPU DP264.  Perhaps AlphaCore should move up to that kernel?

Well, this is do-able. One thing that might be not important - 
clustering modules. They require specific kernel version, although
they might work with newer kernel. I could try to build newer kernel and 
put it into "updates" directory.

Thank you for the hint.

Sergey
tsv at solvo.ru