Re: Alpha SMP status

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 10:55 -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:26:18AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 10:23 +0900, James Andrewartha wrote: Hi all, Some of you may be aware that SMP has been broken on Alpha for most of 2.6. As of linux

Re: Alpha SMP status

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 10:23 +0900, James Andrewartha wrote: Hi all, Some of you may be aware that SMP has been broken on Alpha for most of 2.6. As of linux-image-2.6.18-3-smp, I'm pleased to report that it boots and runs acceptably because scsi_mod is compiled in (bug 369517). However,

Re: newest debian-installer on XP1000

Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:07:49PM -0400, Andrew Diller wrote: I used the one at: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ but I'll try again and leave some space at the top of the disk for aboot. What does it need, a few megs? Less than 1MB. A

Alpha installation from testing and unstable.

I am trying to install from unstable with the network images available at http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/images/daily/netboot/boot.img Also trying to install from testing gives me the old aboot error saying /boot is not and ext2. With unstable i don't get that error. But get the

Re: Alpha installation

Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Aneesh Kumar K.V [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-05-24 13:03]: After creating ext2 on / it worked. I had / - ext3 /boot - ext2 This is fixed in SVN, vorlon has to upload the new version. Does this fix create the small paritition needed for aboot in the beginning

Alpha installation

I am trying to install testing on a Alpha system using netboot images (http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/images/daily/netboot/ ) . While running the partitioner it is complaining that aboot need /boot to be an ext2 file system. Even after creating /boot as ext2 i am still getting the same

Re: Kernel trouble again, 2.6.0-test

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:22, Tyson Whitehead wrote: My system is a PWS 433 running debian testing. How can I determine the exact error message? I haven't tried 2.6 yet, but I seem to recall reading that there is a verbosity switch you have to turn on with the new kernel make system in

OpenSSI 0.9.6 is now available

Hi, It is pretty stable. I am running it on a two node alpha linux cluster. -aneesh ---BeginMessage--- Since 0.8.0, OpenSSI has been booted on more than 67 IA-32 nodes. It includes a first cut of HA-CFS, which allows the cluster to lose its CFS root filesystem server node and continue

Re: cluster of PW433au's

Hi, If you are looking for a clustering application on alpha and at the same time to contribute, take a look at www.openssi.org. And great thing would be to help in converting the the load balancing algorithm ( which is nothing by MOSIX (/usr/src/linux/cluster/ssi/mosixll/balance.c ) ) to NOT use

Re: Booting of LVM ?

Hi, I don't think aboot can read from LVM. -aneesh On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 20:20, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello ! I have a nice hughe IDE disk which I would like to keep flexible, thus using LVM. On the other hand I want to help test debian-installer. Does anyone know if boot can reside on

Linux kernel and floating point.

Hi, Can i afford to have floating point calculation inside Alpha kernel. I found some information saying that floating point is not allowed. Right now the situation is if i compile the code with -mno-fp-regs i get lot of unresolved symbols where as removing this option from the CFLAGS makes

netboot Alpha Linux with inital ramdisk

Hi, Is there a way I can net boot a Alpha Linux box with inital ramdisk.I mean how do I prepare a kernel image that is downloaded from the tftp server that have inital ramdisk also. Right now I am booting the machine from the local hardisk with the ramdisk as an independent file. I want to

Re: alpha build box ?

Hi, Me too ready to do it. -aneesh On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 18:26, Sven wrote: Hello, ... On which alpha box can i ssh to and build the ocaml package in ? In fact the alpha ocaml package needs a special compile switch (probably -mieee) because the alpha fpu unit is not standard. I

Help in Generating Alpha files

Hi , Can some one help in converting the following functions in the attached file to Alpha. The file belong to Open-SSI project( http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/ ). I am trying to take it to alpha linux. Since i don't have much exp with alpha assembly i am getting confused regarding serveral

kernel_clone

Hi, Can some one explain the following comment I found in entry.S for alpha /* Also, for the kernel fork, we need to fake the system call * stack buildup, as we can't do system calls from kernel space. */ Why can't we do system call from the kernel space for alpha ? -aneesh -- Open