Hi,
[... topic is kernel 2.4.x not working on DS20/20E systems ...] > Hmmm, > > I've got a DS20, and I can compile a working single CPU kernel with > GCC 2.95.2. However, as soon as I compile an SMP kernel, it dies very > early on in the boot process. I've tried all the 2.4.x kernels. > > Can you post your config file? Ok. Here is my .config. Note, that i only included the options, I set. Everything else is omitted to keep the mail as short as possible. As stated in my previous email, I upgraded some kernel-relevant packages as well. These are: e2fsprogs 1.19 modutils 2.4.2 util-linux 2.10s Note that, depending on your kernel config, some other packages might need an upgrade too. Everything else is stock potato 2.2.0 + minor upgrades towards 2.2.2. No woody stuff here - at least as kernel stability is concerned. Note, that some of these settings should be considered wisely - especially my SCSI adaptor settings like CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE and CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS, which you probably are aware of anyway ;-) Hope that helps - anybody else, sorry for the long text. Here are my .config settings: CONFIG_ALPHA=y CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_ALPHA_DP264=y CONFIG_ISA=y CONFIG_EISA=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_ALPHA_EV6=y CONFIG_ALPHA_TSUNAMI=y CONFIG_ALPHA_EV67=y CONFIG_ALPHA_SRM=y CONFIG_SMP=y CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_PACKET=m CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40 CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=2 CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y CONFIG_AIC7XXX_TCQ_ON_BY_DEFAULT=y CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=32 CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS=y CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY=5 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=y CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=20 CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y CONFIG_VORTEX=y CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256 CONFIG_PRINTER=y CONFIG_MOUSE=y CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y CONFIG_RTC=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=m CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m CONFIG_JFFS_FS_VERBOSE=0 CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_FS=m CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFSD=m CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y CONFIG_SUNRPC=m CONFIG_LOCKD=m CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION=y CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y CONFIG_NLS=y CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1" CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_MATHEMU=y CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y CONFIG_ALPHA_LEGACY_START_ADDRESS=y > > Thanks, > > Edgar. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Weyergraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Favorite IA64 Opcode-guess ( see arch/ia64/lib/memset.S ) "br.ret.spnt.few" - got back from getting beer, did not spend a lot.
