On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:39:58PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > On 12/7/18 22:06, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 05:38:51PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > > As per [1] and our recent discussions the generic 4.x kernels seem to no > > > longer work on Alpha machines which also renders any installer images > > > using > > > the generic 4.x kernels non-working. > > > > Yes, that was noted some time ago. A generic kernel does not boot > > since about 3.13. > > Must be after 3.16 because a Debian 3.16 generic kernel still worked on my > PWS 500au back in 2017 or even earlier.
Confirmed. 3.16 generic boots but 3.18 generic does not on XP1000. The reason I did not bisect at the time is that there were build errors in the kernel about 3.17 and 3.18 but I think I now know how to work around those so shall proceed to bisect. Cheers, Michael.
