Re: booting from CD on Alphastation 255

[Norbert Tretkowski <tretkowski@inittab.de>]

* Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 02:04:12PM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote:
> > The only problem with 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 here was a problem with irq
> > handling. In idle mode the kernel crashes sometimes in function
> > handle_IRQ_event (not in a driver!). Looking into the code I find
> > out that alpha was the only platform where this function diffs
> > from all other architectures (relict from 2.4.x?). After replacing
> > the C code in this function with the x86 code the kernel runs fine
> > (file: arch/alpha/kernel/irq.c).
> 
> Ah, that sounds like the crash I was seeing, though it triggered
> only when running hotplug. Do you have a patch for this that could
> be sent to the Debian kernel maintainers?

Uwe sent me that patch already, unfortunately I had no time to take a
closer look at it.

Norbert