Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Jay Estabrook wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:22:12PM +0300, Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
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>>I actually decied to build "updated" kernel - applied all the patches 
>>and prepared SRPM. It is building right now...
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>The bad news is, that without the changes to the SMP config file (to
>build in the upper layer(s) of the SCSI subsystem, to avoid some
>module-related problems), your new SMP kernels prolly won't work any
>better.
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>The good news is, that those are the ONLY changes that are really needed
>to build a working SMP kernel.
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>So, for folks who want to roll their own, change the SMP config file to
>use the following settings, rather than the module-producing ones:
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>CONFIG_SCSI=y
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
>CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS=y
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I'll apply these changes, rebuild and upload updated kernel packages to 
"updates" directory of AC2.
That is really good news for SMP machines. :)

>Note that the kernels appear to build successfully under both AC-1.0
>(with gcc 3.4.3-20) and AC-2.0 (with gcc 4.0.1-4.fc4).
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>I have a couple of additional patches I'm working on:
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>1. add failing module name to the "percpu data" error messages,
>2. fix unresolved references in several modules (noted during kernel
>   installs, but the modules are NOT important on Alpha, AFAICT).
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>So, given a working SMP kernel, the (next) major problem right now
>with AC-2.0 is the lack of working DRI (3D) support for ATI Radeons.
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>Nice work, Sergey and Cristian!!! :-) :-)
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Thanks. :)

Regards,

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Sergey Tikhonov
Solvo Ltd.
tsv at solvo.ru