Thanks to Peter De Schrijver, I believe we've finally located the bug that's made 2.4.2x kernel-image packages so horrible to use on such a wide range of alphas. Reverting a Debian-specific patch to the PCI initialization code has resulted in 2.4.26 kernel images that are known to work on three different alphas that showed various problems with ethernet/SCSI drivers when booting the official kernel-images. I've made packages available at <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/fixed-alpha-kernels/>. I would ask that anyone who can test them please do so; we need as much feedback as possible, both for people who *were* able to use the existing kernel-images packages, and from those who were not, in order to make a case to the kernel maintainers to revert this patch. If you don't know whether or not the kernel-image packages work for you, an easy way to find out without messing with your install is by grabbing a debian-installer businesscard image from <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/> and letting it go through its hardware detection and network configuration phases. Please follow up with your results to 253787@bugs.debian.org, including the output of lspci and cat /proc/cpuinfo. I will be preparing local debian-installer images based on these kernels as well, which I should have ready this weekend, for those who would prefer to test that way. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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