Re: Alpha SMP status

2006-12-12 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 10:55 -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:26:18AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 10:23 +0900, James Andrewartha wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Some of you may be aware that SMP has been br

Re: Alpha SMP status

2006-12-11 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 10:23 +0900, James Andrewartha wrote: > Hi all, > > Some of you may be aware that SMP has been broken on Alpha for most of > 2.6. As of linux-image-2.6.18-3-smp, I'm pleased to report that it boots > and runs acceptably because scsi_mod is compiled in (bug 369517). However,

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

2004-07-15 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:07:49PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: I used the one at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ but I'll try again and leave some space at the top of the disk for aboot. What does it need, a few megs? Less than 1MB. A s

Alpha installation from testing and unstable.

2004-06-24 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
I am trying to install from unstable with the network images available at http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/images/daily/netboot/boot.img Also trying to install from testing gives me the old aboot error saying /boot is not and ext2. With unstable i don't get that error. But get the debootstrap

Re: Alpha installation

2004-05-27 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Aneesh Kumar K.V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-24 13:03]: After creating ext2 on / it worked. I had / -> ext3 /boot -> ext2 This is fixed in SVN, vorlon has to upload the new version. Does this fix create the small paritition needed for aboot in th

Alpha installation

2004-05-24 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
I am trying to install testing on a Alpha system using netboot images (http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/images/daily/netboot/ ) . While running the partitioner it is complaining that aboot need /boot to be an ext2 file system. Even after creating /boot as ext2 i am still getting the same er

[Fwd: Re: Alpha Workstation Clustering with OpenSSI]

2003-10-20 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
--- Begin Message --- On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 19:05, Riccardo Vestrini wrote: > Hi folks, > > I would like to request you comments about OpenSSI (www.openssi.org) > > I have ten Alpha Workstation 500au which I would like to put on good > use, > I seached the web for an open clustering tech and I

Re: Kernel trouble again, 2.6.0-test

2003-07-24 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:22, Tyson Whitehead wrote: > > My system is a PWS 433 running debian testing. How can I determine the > > exact error message? > > I haven't tried 2.6 yet, but I seem to recall reading that there is a > verbosity switch you have to turn on with the new kernel make system

OpenSSI 0.9.6 is now available

2003-04-05 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Hi, It is pretty stable. I am running it on a two node alpha linux cluster. -aneesh --- Begin Message --- Since 0.8.0, OpenSSI has been booted on more than 67 IA-32 nodes. It includes a first cut of HA-CFS, which allows the cluster to lose its CFS root filesystem server node and continu

Re: cluster of PW433au's

2003-02-10 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Hi, If you are looking for a clustering application on alpha and at the same time to contribute, take a look at www.openssi.org. And great thing would be to help in converting the the load balancing algorithm ( which is nothing by MOSIX (/usr/src/linux/cluster/ssi/mosixll/balance.c ) ) to NOT use

Re: Booting of LVM ?

2003-02-05 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Hi, I don't think aboot can read from LVM. -aneesh On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 20:20, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello ! > I have a nice hughe IDE disk which I would like to keep flexible, thus > using LVM. On the other hand I want to help test debian-installer. > Does anyone know if boot can reside

Linux kernel and floating point.

2002-04-10 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Hi, Can i afford to have floating point calculation inside Alpha kernel. I found some information saying that floating point is not allowed. Right now the situation is if i compile the code with -mno-fp-regs i get lot of unresolved symbols where as removing this option from the CFLAGS makes eve

netboot Alpha Linux with inital ramdisk

2002-02-07 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Hi, Is there a way I can net boot a Alpha Linux box with inital ramdisk.I mean how do I prepare a kernel image that is downloaded from the tftp server that have inital ramdisk also. Right now I am booting the machine from the local hardisk with the ramdisk as an independent file. I want to sup

Re: alpha build box ?

2001-11-02 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Hi, Me too ready to do it. -aneesh On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 18:26, Sven wrote: > Hello, ... > > On which alpha box can i ssh to and build the ocaml package in ? > > In fact the alpha ocaml package needs a special compile switch (probably > -mieee) because the alpha fpu unit is not standard.

kernel_clone

2001-10-23 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Hi, Can some one explain the following comment I found in entry.S for alpha /* Also, for the kernel fork, we need to fake the system call * stack buildup, as we can't do system calls from kernel space. */ Why can't we do system call from the kernel space for alpha ? -aneesh -- "Open

Help in Generating Alpha files

2001-10-23 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Hi , Can some one help in converting the following functions in the attached file to Alpha. The file belong to Open-SSI project( http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/ ). I am trying to take it to alpha linux. Since i don't have much exp with alpha assembly i am getting confused regarding serveral r

can some one tell me where the global definition of these functions are

2001-08-30 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Hi , I am not able to locate the global definition of many functions in defined in /usr/include/asm-alpha/uacces.h. All the functions in this definition are exetern inline as shown below which I think will become an extern declaration if not able to inline.Can some one point me the global defini