Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT

[Alan Young]

Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook at hp.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 04:52:53PM -0700, Alan Young wrote:
>> 
>> 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?
>
>In my attempt to use that kernel, I couldn't get a clean compile.
>
>Would you care to share your "adjustments"? ;-}

Actually, they're Sergey's adjustments plus some tweaking... :-)

Since the 2.6.15 spec file doesn't have alpha bits in it, I started
the build as i686 smp.  I did that to get rpm to extract the source
and apply all it's patches.  Then I pulled linux-2.6.12-alpha-diskdump.patch
and the linux-2.6.5-alpha-dummypie.patch from the Alpha Core 2.6.12-1.1447
kernel and applied them to the 2.6.15 source in the BUILD directory.
In the updated source in the BUILD directory, I deleted the link in the include
directory that pointed the asm symlink to asm-i386.  I did a "make clean" to
clean up any other x86 bits.  Then a "make menuconfig" to setup the 
kernel's config.  In the config, I set the alpha platform to DP264, turned on
EV67 support, turned on SMP and set the number of CPUs to 2.  Then saved
the config and did a "make -j3 boot modules" to compile.

That's from memory and I'm not near the box at the moment.  So if that
fails, let me know and I'll check more when I'm back.

Alan