Hi all, just a short update for all that might haven't noticed yet:
It looks like MP operation is working **again** on Alpha with recent kernels - which is just a pleasure to see! I'm unsure what was fixed in the kernel to make it work again, quickly scanning through the changes I didn't find anything related to Titan, only changes regarding Marvel. Nevertheless a **big thank you** to all people involved in "fixing" this! I tested 6.0.7 on my DS25, running: * `7za b` * `openssl speed -elapsed` * and nearly two hours of kernel compilation (with `localmodconfig`) ...which worked w/o an apparent issue. I couldn't get it to work with systemd though, so had to resort to replacing systemd with sysvinit, see [1] for details. [1]: https://pastebin.com/FbFG7jHx I don't know if my kernel config misses something needed by systemd, though I took the one of the last working kernel 5.3.0-3 as base (`olddefconfig`, then `localmodconfig` plus small changes via `menuconfig`), which works fine with the same userland (incl. recreated current initramfs). I actually build the 6.0.7 kernel manually because I wanted to verify it builds and really works on Alpha. [2] only shows build failures for the last attempted kernel builds, though these seem to happen in the Debian part of the build. Since 6.x the build process complains about unversioned symbols: ``` [...] make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/build/build_alpha_none_alpha-generic' debian/bin/buildcheck.py debian/build/build_alpha_none_alpha-generic alpha none alpha-generic ABI is not completely versioned! Refusing to continue. Unversioned symbols: strcat module: vmlinux, version: 0x00000000, export: EXPORT_SYMBOL strcpy module: vmlinux, version: 0x00000000, export: EXPORT_SYMBOL strncat module: vmlinux, version: 0x00000000, export: EXPORT_SYMBOL strncpy module: vmlinux, version: 0x00000000, export: EXPORT_SYMBOL Can't read ABI reference. ABI not checked! make[2]: *** [debian/rules.real:218: debian/stamps/build_alpha_none_alpha-generic] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' make[1]: *** [debian/rules.gen:426: build-arch_alpha_none_alpha-generic_real] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>' make: *** [debian/rules:39: build-arch] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary-arch subprocess returned exit status 2 ``` Don't know what to make out of this. Is this a problem in the kernel sources or a problem for the Debian kernel team? [2]: https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=linux&arch=alpha Cheers, Frank
