From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Burt Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:45:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] 2.4.17 on Azusa box Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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!)