On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 12:04 AM Meelis Roos wrote:
>
> I share my experience of fresh install of and embedded SBC Alpha
> (Eiger with EV6 500 MHz).
>
> Only an ancient Debian installer worked for me. The reason appeared to
> be broken IRQ numbers for Eiger.
>
> So I used 2 disks. I first
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Well, at this point I think it makes sense to just resend the patch. In
> case that helps I may offer you my Reviewed-by tag as the change looks
> obviously correct to me; `eiger_mv.nr_irqs' is 128 and we need to match it
> here.
FWIW, it's
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, Meelis Roos wrote:
> Then I debugged the new kernel and fixed the IRQ problem. Now I had a
> recent kernel. I sent the patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/12/379 to
> linux-alpha but it seems to have been ignored - PING!
You may have previously been covered by
I share my experience of fresh install of and embedded SBC Alpha
(Eiger with EV6 500 MHz).
Only an ancient Debian installer worked for me. The reason appeared to
be broken IRQ numbers for Eiger.
So I used 2 disks. I first installed the ancient Debian on disk 1.
That worked.
Next, I used that
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:19:52AM +, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> (much useful information set in the appropriate historical context)
Thank you for your thoughts.
The earlier reported problem with "/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd" evidently
requiring AF_UNIX socket support to be built-in rather
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019, Bob Tracy wrote:
> Odd thing about the disk partitioning scheme. The disk label definitely
> has to be "bsd" for SRM to be happy, but if Linux is the only OS on the
> disk, all the rest of the BSD partitioning conventions don't have to be
> observed as far as slice "c"
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 01:10:14AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote:
> (initramfs / systemd / udevd issue)
I think I may have this one painted into a corner...
CONFIG_UNIX (at least) needs to be "y" instead of "m". This is a
relatively new dependency.
For userland applications used in the boot process
