Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Jay Estabrook wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:29:08AM -0700, Alan Young wrote:
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>>Actually, they're Sergey's adjustments plus some tweaking... :-)
>>
>>Since the 2.6.15 spec file doesn't have alpha bits in it, I started
>>the build as i686 smp.  I did that to get rpm to extract the source
>>and apply all it's patches.  Then I pulled linux-2.6.12-alpha-diskdump.patch
>>and the linux-2.6.5-alpha-dummypie.patch from the Alpha Core 2.6.12-1.1447
>>kernel and applied them to the 2.6.15 source in the BUILD directory.
>>In the updated source in the BUILD directory, I deleted the link in the include
>>directory that pointed the asm symlink to asm-i386.  I did a "make clean" to
>>clean up any other x86 bits.  Then a "make menuconfig" to setup the 
>>kernel's config.  In the config, I set the alpha platform to DP264, turned on
>>EV67 support, turned on SMP and set the number of CPUs to 2.  Then saved
>>the config and did a "make -j3 boot modules" to compile.
>>
>>That's from memory and I'm not near the box at the moment.  So if that
>>fails, let me know and I'll check more when I'm back.
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>Thanks, Alan, that's about where I thought I might need to go to solve
>this. One (me) gets too complacent when one is forced to work with the
>"mainstream" processors these days... :-\
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>I plunked a few more of Sergey's patches in there as well, and it
>looks like the both builds have been (mostly) successful - got a
>couple of errors when building modules that I'll have to look at
>later...
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>Now for testing... :-)
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>Cross fingers...
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Jay, I guess I don't need to look at this. I've already downloaded 
updated kernel and was going to build it. :)
Ok, good. I'll play with something else.

Btw, is there an interest in support of C# (mono) on alpha? It requires 
a lot of not easy debugging. :(

Regards,

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Sergey Tikhonov
Solvo Ltd.
tsv at solvo.ru