Re: Kernel for AlphaServer 1000 (Success!... and a question)

Salvador Pinto Abreu (spa@sc.uevora.pt)
Sat, 29 Nov 1997 15:33:51 +0000

> > - The Noritake image can boot the Mikasa (but won't recognize the DE435
> > Ethernet board; I had to make a new kernel for that to work)
>
> It's surprising that it got far enough to see that; the two
> platforms have quite different interrupt delivery mechanisms, and
> the built-in PCI-PCI bridge on NORITAKE requires some special code
> to deal with it.

Well, it's a Mikasa-Primo I think, anyway it's an AS1000 5/300,
upgraded from a 4/266. The noritake-*.img on gatekeeper worked.

This is /proc/cpuinfo for the 1000:

cpu : Alpha
cpu model : EV5
cpu variation : 7
cpu revision : 0
cpu serial number :
system type : Mikasa
system variation : 0
system revision : 0
system serial number :
cycle frequency [Hz] : 300300300
timer frequency [Hz] : 1024.00
page size [bytes] : 8192
phys. address bits : 40
max. addr. space # : 127
BogoMIPS : 297.79
kernel unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
user unaligned acc : 58 (pc=2d,va=11ffff8c0)

> > Any hint as to what's going on with the console? (I'm thinking of plugging
> > a VGA board, but if there's a way to avoid this I'd rather not do it)...
>
> Does the console problem happen on *both* machines? Did it occur with the
> pre-built kernel found on gatekeeper on the NORITAKE?

No, the kernel from gatekeeper works fine in this respect.

> Both MIKASA and NORITAKE have built-in VGAs, I believe; at least the MIKASA
> has a Cirrus 5424 on the mobo. So there should be no need to compile in the
> TGA support, though I wouldn't have thought it would hurt anything... :-\

I'm trying just now to boot a kernel without TGA support (ie. only
VGA). and *it works*!!!

Thanks for the info.

../salvador

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