alpha DEAD on >=2.6.16-rc3

alpha DEAD on >=2.6.16-rc3

[leonie herzberg]

Hi. I already posted a bugreport on the bugzilla
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6351) but I feel no one is
recognizing that; and as I see it, it's a rather hard bug since it
throws a kernel panic immediately at boot time. I believe it has to do
with the change made in 2.6.16-rc3 concerning "cpu_possible_map". None
of the newer kernel versions works.
As you can see at the first (and up to now, only) comment, this is not
only my problem.
Maybe it appears only in connection with SMP. I can't tell.


Leonie

Re: alpha DEAD on >=2.6.16-rc3

[Andrew Morton]

leonie herzberg <leo@net4u.de> wrote:
>
> Hi. I already posted a bugreport on the bugzilla
>  (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6351) but I feel no one is
>  recognizing that; and as I see it, it's a rather hard bug since it
>  throws a kernel panic immediately at boot time. I believe it has to do
>  with the change made in 2.6.16-rc3 concerning "cpu_possible_map". None
>  of the newer kernel versions works.
>  As you can see at the first (and up to now, only) comment, this is not
>  only my problem.
>  Maybe it appears only in connection with SMP. I can't tell.

Please test ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc1/2.6.17-rc1-mm2/broken-out/alpha-smp-boot-fixes.patch

Re: alpha DEAD on >=2.6.16-rc3

[leonie herzberg]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Please test ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc1/2.6.17-rc1-mm2/broken-out/alpha-smp-boot-fixes.patch

It works. Thanks! Alpha reanimated. :-)

Re: alpha DEAD on >=2.6.16-rc3

[Wakko Warner]

leonie herzberg wrote:
> Hi. I already posted a bugreport on the bugzilla
> (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6351) but I feel no one is
> recognizing that; and as I see it, it's a rather hard bug since it
> throws a kernel panic immediately at boot time. I believe it has to do
> with the change made in 2.6.16-rc3 concerning "cpu_possible_map". None
> of the newer kernel versions works.
> As you can see at the first (and up to now, only) comment, this is not
> only my problem.
> Maybe it appears only in connection with SMP. I can't tell.

I'm not sure if this is similar or not.  I compiled 2.6.16 for my alpha 2
days ago.  I've had nothing but lockup/halting problems with it and went back
to 2.4.

This is a noritake machine (alphaserver 1000a 4/266) 160mb ram and a mylex
dac960pdu (IIRC) raid controller.

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