Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT

[Alan Young]

Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
> Alan Young wrote:
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>> Alan Young wrote:
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>>> Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
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>>>> Alan Young wrote:
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>>>>> The test iso booted ok on my DP264.  It looks like it found all the
>>>>> hardware and loaded drivers ok.  If you need more info, let me
>>>>> know.  Maybe the problem only affects certain platforms and/or
>>>>> hardware???  :-\
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The kernel used for installation is UP one, that is why it worked.
>>>> Only SMP kernel doesn't work (at least the one we are trying to use).
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for test,
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh, that's not a good test at all now is it? :)
>>>
>>> I pulled down the kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4axp.src.rpm that was
>>> mentioned elsewhere in this thread and recompiled it.  It crashed.
>>> I was able to capture a log and a traceback on the serial console.
>>> It is attached below.  Hope this helps more...
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>> <crash log snipped>
>>
>> I've done some random testing and I was not able to identify the
>> cause of the crash.  However, I did find something that does work.
>> I tried a newer Fedora Core 4 kernel.  I compiled 
>> kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4.src.rpm for SMP and am able to boot it on
>> my 2 CPU DP264.  Perhaps AlphaCore should move up to that kernel?
> 
> Well, this is do-able. One thing that might be not important - 
> clustering modules. They require specific kernel version, although
> they might work with newer kernel. I could try to build newer kernel and 
> put it into "updates" directory.
> 
> Thank you for the hint.

You're welcome. :)

What clustering software are you using?  If it's just the major kernel
version it is dependent on, there is a kernel-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4.src.rpm
in Fedora Core 4 that I can try compiling SMP too.  However, it would
be best to stay current for fixes, etc.

Alan