On Mon 17 Nov 2008, Paul Slootman wrote:
Hmm, I have no problem booting a 2.6 kernel on my XLT which uses MILO.
OK, after re-reading the thread, I have to admit that I have LEGACY_START set
:-)
Paul
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On Mon 17 Nov 2008, Matthew W. S. Bell wrote:
Further investigation eventually reveals that the only change in the
kernels is the CONFIG_ALPHA_LEGACY_START_ADDRESS. This option has the
following help:
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The 2.4 kernel changed the kernel start address from 0x31 to
0x81 to make room
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 00:39 -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote:
That's, what, 5MB of space? It seems to me we have it backwards --
legacy should be the default, and folks on newer hardware can apt-get
install the non-legacy kernel if they want to free up 5mb of
physical memory. Or am I missing
Legacy mode is necessary ONLY for MILO machines - all
machines running SRM will work fine without legacy mode.
And yes, there's more of a gap between low memory stuff and
the kernel when in non-legacy mode, but that doesn't mean it goes
unused - the kernel can use it for paging, or static space,
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 00:32 +0100, Matthew W. S. Bell wrote:
Well, I still don't entirely know what the -legacy package is for nor
what constitutes an Alpha Legacy Machine. Looking at the linux-2.6
Debian changelog it appears it may be something to do with MILO.
Further investigation
That's, what, 5MB of space? It seems to me we have it backwards --
legacy should be the default, and folks on newer hardware can apt-get
install the non-legacy kernel if they want to free up 5mb of physical
memory. Or am I missing something?
Matthew W. S. Bell wrote:
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 00:32
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:39:50AM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote:
That's, what, 5MB of space? It seems to me we have it backwards --
legacy should be the default, and folks on newer hardware can apt-get
install the non-legacy kernel if they want to free up 5mb of physical
memory. Or am I
Steve Langasek wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:39:50AM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote:
That's, what, 5MB of space? It seems to me we have it backwards --
legacy should be the default, and folks on newer hardware can apt-get
install the non-legacy kernel if they want to free up 5mb of
[ adding d-alpha on cc ]
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Matthew W. S. Bell wrote:
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.26-4
Severity: normal
Please would you update the description of the legacy and generic (and
possibly smp) packages such that the user would be able to work out what
type of
maximilian attems wrote:
what do you suggest?
Well, I still don't entirely know what the -legacy package is for nor
what constitutes an Alpha Legacy Machine. Looking at the linux-2.6
Debian changelog it appears it may be something to do with MILO.
Matthew
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