Re: latest debian-installer fixes: TITAN compatibility, de2104x support

2006-02-26 Thread Uwe Schindler
Wonderful, tested the new -generic images on a SRM machine - works still perfectly. And thanks for your work to get prctl working! Now I can start programs that flood my logs with unaligned traps simply with "prctl --unaligned=silent ". I think one should enable alpha as supported architecture f

Re: smp problems on AlphaServer 4100

2006-02-26 Thread James Andrewartha
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, James Andrewartha wrote: > It boots without any of the SCSI problems and starts up the md device and > LVM ok, just has problems because as you pointed out, 2.6.15 has no devfs. I rebuilt yaird and kernel-package, and using them under 2.6.8 does create a working initrd for t

Re: smp problems on AlphaServer 4100

2006-02-26 Thread James Andrewartha
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:13:25AM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote: >> I've hit that when trying to run a 2.6.15 compiled using the debian config >> on a UP2000+ system (based on DP264, same as the DS20) with two EV68ALs. I >> haven't tried a uniprocesse

latest debian-installer fixes: TITAN compatibility, de2104x support

2006-02-26 Thread Steve Langasek
With the linux-2.6 2.6.15-7 package in unstable, the LEGACY_START_ADDRESS kernel option has been moved to a separate "legacy" kernel flavor, which means the Debian alpha port should again support TITAN-class systems such as the DS15, DS25, DS45, and ES47 which need more memory for SRM. Debian-insta

Re: smp problems on AlphaServer 4100

2006-02-26 Thread Marc Schlensog
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:55:16 -0800 Bill MacAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Yes. I have pretty much decided to purge the qLogic controllers from > my Alpha/Linux systems. I will use old NCR based cards, like an > Intraserver 4280, to boot from and Adaptec controllers for the bulk > of