Re: on booting 2.4.0-test7: one more time, oldconfig broken!
Well, "make oldconfig" worked on the intel. It appears that parts
that are broken are alpha-dependent ?
>Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:59:04 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Rich Payne <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org>
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>Umm...I don't think it's fair to say it's broken. You need to remember
>that there are a whole host of different options between 2.2 and 2.4 and
>I'm not sure any ever guaranteed that make oldconfig would work across
>major revisions like that.
>
>I saw a posting somewhere saying that sound in 2.4 is just plain broken,
>regardless of arch, so YMMV.
>
>--rdp
>
>
>On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, James D. Freels wrote:
>
>>
>> Apparently "make oldconfig" is broken for the alpha. I went back and
>> examined the resulting .config and compared to the 2.2.16 .config and
>> there were at least 3 major areas that were not configured correctly:
>>
>> 1) the SRM dependence: I manually turned this back on so I can boot
>> from SRM
>>
>> 2) the PCI ethernet card dependence: I manually turned this back on
>> and my ehernet card was enabled from the previous .config
>>
>> 3) the MSS sound card dependence: there is no place to specify the
>> I/O, IRQ, dma, etc. So sound was broken.
>>
>> This time I built a PC164 kernel that booted successfully and
>> everthing but sound appeared to work (including ethernet). However,
>> it only took a few minutes of operation before the system hung on what
>> appeared to be scsi problem. I had to perform a hard reboot. Upon
>> reboot to my stable 2.2.16 kernel, all filesystems were checked with
>> one error fix.
>>
>> So, I think I will stop the experimentation for now. I would like to
>> hear about some successes and any advice.
>>
>>
>
>--
>Rich Payne
>rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org
>
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