Re: [Linux-ia64] 2.4.17 on Azusa box

Aaron Burt
2002-01-31T00:45:53Z

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Robert Williamson wrote:
> I'm sure the answer to this has been posted before, but I couldn't find it
> in the archives. Is there any issues with ACPI and the 16-way Azusa boxes,
> because I cannot get the kernel to boot. I'm currently running an old
> 2.4.3-12 kernel.

Some AzusA kernel notes:
- You must have SAL v1.23. Though I've a patch for 2.4.10's setup.c that
lets earlier SAL versions work.
- The kernel page size needs to be 16KB.
- The interrupt tables can overwhelm the kernel, but this only happens
in 2.4.[7-9]. Earlier and later versions are fine. I've patches
for the affected versions nonetheless.
- You'll get TickOOPS messages during bootup, but they're harmless.
- NEC hardware engineering says to disable USB in the kernel.

Oh, and we've a 16-way AzusA here at the OSDL available for scalability-
related projects. It's currently running Linux 2.4.16-ia64 with Red Hat
7.1. IIRC we've also got SuSE and TurboLinux on it, but Mandrake and
Debian's installers gave me fits. (boo!)