Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.alpha,gmane.linux.debian.ports.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Christian!

On 4/6/21 12:15 PM, Christian König wrote:
> Am 06.04.21 um 11:14 schrieb Michael Cree:
>> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 09:08:10AM +0200, Christian König wrote:
>>> That is a known issue fixed in follow up 5.11.x kernels.
>> Well, it's intriguing that you say that because the latest 5.11.x
>> kernel available from https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kernel.org%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cchristian.koenig%40amd.com%7C4bc7eae6b1c14259a35608d8f8dc6908%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637532973258538981%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&amp;sdata=hgwidEjS4X1IBGx7koSUTWW0y3WHAN4AT4moJvf%2BK3s%3D&amp;reserved=0 (i.e. 5.11.11) is also bad
>> and locks up hard when X is started on my Alpha XP1000.
> 
> Well *that* is rather interesting. We have considered dropping Alpha support
> because we couldn't find somebody with that hardware any more.

There are plenty of us within the Gentoo, Debian and NetBSD projects, just ask :-).

We're also supporting everything else that most commercial vendors consider obsolete
such as PA-RISC, M68k, big-endian PowerPC (32 and 64 bits) SPARC and so on, in case
you need testing there.

Adrian

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