Re: disks-alpha updated
On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Nikhil Nair wrote:
Hi,
I am not totally death yet ;)
>
> I don't know if you caught my comments a while back, but if not: I'm
> worried about Pasi's kernels. I started off with his pc164 one, and found
> the ethernet stuff was *very* dodgey: it recognised my DE450 (de4x5
> driver), but the `ifconfig eth0' line caused a complete system lock-up.
>
> Trouble is, I have no idea what sources Pasi used to compile that set.
> While I wouldn't make any claims about my set (on cobra.ch.cam.ac.uk) wrt
> testing, we do at least know what sources they came from. I was
> perilously close to posting on axp-list@redhat.com about those problems,
> which may have ended up giving Debian a reputation for shipping poor
> kernels ...
>
> So I suggest that at least the pc164 kernel should go ... I'd prefer the
> whole lot going, to be honest. If anyone is unhappy with the sources I
> used and/or the configurations I used, I'm more than willing to make some
> corrections and compile a new complete set, but I'd like us to be able to
> vouch for something as central as that.
>
Those kernels are linux-2.0.30 + axp-patches-2.0.30 ie. the diffs that
were in gorba.lpt.fi and nothing else.
Only AXP-kernel is tested due the lack of hardware.
I found later (alpha-patches-2.0.30-0.1) very unstable in my AXP.
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