Subject: [suse-axp] Supported systems (was Re: [suse-axp] AS200 kernel problem)
From: Alan Young (ayoung@teleport.com)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 14:06:15 PST
The "System Requirements" on the box is contradictory. The list of supported
motherboards does not match the supported processors. For example, my
AlphaPC64 board has a 21064A CPU. It will never support a 21164 or later
chip. It's not pin compatible.
The packaging issue aside...I guess the better question to ask is how
are all of the packages compiled? Were they compiled with -mcpu=ev4 or
-mcpu=ev56 switches or no switch at all? If the packages are compiled as EV4
or no switch then they should run on any Alpha CPU. If they were compiled
with EV56, PCA56 or EV6, then they may only run on a 21164A, 21164PC or 21264.
It depends if the compiler generated a extension instruction that did not
exist on the earlier Alphas. Also, some packages (like the kernel) pass a
-Wa,-m21164a switch to GAS to enable the byte-word extensions. Those packages
that do that will probably have problems on old machines as they did not
have those extensions.
Alan
Ruediger Oertel wrote:
<snip>
>
> And for the other question: 2106x is not mentioned simply because my
> collection consists of 21164 and 21264 machines only. If packages do
> not work on 2106x, please feel free to mention these.
>
> --
> with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
> Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> does "DONT PANIC" give a hint ?
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