RE: kbuild 2.5.26 - arch/alpha

[Oliver Pitzeier]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-23 14:42:03 +0200, Martin Brulisauer 
> <[e-mail]> wrote in message 
> <3D3D6B3B.25754.1392D3FD@localhost>:
> > On 21 Jul 2002, at 18:57, Oliver Pitzeier wrote:
> > > Oh... I did... :o( :o) But it's currently a mission 
> impossible. The 
> > > last kernel running fine for my alpha is 2.5.18 (with a lot of 
> > > patches...)
> 
> There was a quite good patch sent to l-k some weeks ago which
> (basically) still applies. I'm using this one (with watering 
> eyes waiting for a compileable Linus-Kernel...).

I go and search it...
 
> > Is there anybody who is willing to test such a patch
> > on different alpha's (I only have some XLT's, an AS800
> > and one AS250, so all alcor based systems with
> > ISA and PCI but without EISA and all are using 
> sys_alcor.c)? Further I 
> > can't test SMP with this _very_ old hardware.
> 
> I cannot test SMP either (I've not got a SMP alpha), but I 
> can test on Miata, Avanit and NoName.

I've got a AS1000. Noritake. But I do only have _one_ processor.
I don't believe that anybody buys me a second... :o(

Our Dual-Processor Machine (a DS20e) has been moved back to
Compaq a few month ago... On our seconds DS20e are running postgresql
databases which cannot be stopped. Not even for a few minutes while
rebooting...

-Oliver