Re: alpha performance

I'm already running vanilla-sources 2.4.25 . That
worked like a charm the first time with no issues.
Yes, I am building an XLT config, not "generic". I've
been running 2.4.25 for somewhere around a year. This
was my first attempt at upgrading to a 2.6 kernel
though.

Jeff

--- Marnix Arnold <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, February 8, 2005 21:07, Jeff Donsbach said:
> >
> > Has anyone gotten a 2.6 kernel to work on a MILO
> based
> > machine? I have an XLT 366 that I have been trying
> on.
> 
> I have an XLT 300 and I tried the alpha-sources,
> vanilla-sources,
> gentoo-sources, development sources and
> gentoo-dev-sources. I only tried
> building for the XLT target, not the generic-alpha
> target (I assume you
> did the same?).
> 
> > I got the kernel built with only minor problems,
> but I
> > wasn't able to get it to boot. It just freezes
> when
> > jumping from MILO to the kernel. I had to give up
> > because I had other things to do (this was a few
> > weekends ago).
> 
> I have exactly the same results (including giving up
> due to time
> contraints ;-). Building works, but MILO freezes
> with any kernel > 2.4.21
> (latest in alpha-sources). I think it has to do with
> something in
> sys_alcor.c (which received a major overhaul from
> 2.4.22 onwards) or the
> interrupt mapping code. IIRC, Jean-Sébastien Guay
> had success building for
> the generic target, which would confirm that the
> problem is somewhere in
> the alcor-specific code.
> 
> So right now, it seems that on an XLT you can use
> only 2.4.21
> (alpha-sources) for the XLT target, or >2.4.22
> (including 2.6.x) but only
> for the generic-alpha target. Can anyone confirm
> this?
> 
> > If anyone has, maybe you can share your
> > known working kernel config file?  Also, maybe I
> am
> > just not passing the right boot flags to the
> kernel.
> > What are you using?
> 
> I would be very interested as well!
> 
> Marnix.
> 
> 
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