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Re: [BProc] Re: building modified cm4 kernel
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From: Daniel G. <dg...@ti...> - 2004-03-16 21:52:30
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:18:46PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:24:24AM -0500, Daniel Gruner wrote: > > Any more suggestions? > > Well, my connection got better and I did some searching through > Google. It is actually not hard to find quite a few entries > using "Alpha CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED" for a search string. > > Have a look, in particular, at: > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-09/0400.html > and a related thread. > > You have full sources for a kernel I installed on your machine and > which was not having that problem. Do you see in there Alpha > specific patches with anything which is similar? In source rpm they > are separate from original sources and often have somewhat > descriptive names. Or anything else there which is involved in > PCI-to-PCI handling? These pieces, and most likely all other stuff > which touches PCI on Alpha, probably apply to what you are using > right now. Possibly they need a bit of massaging but really only > you can tell. There is a distinct possibility that this would solve > the problem. Thanks, Michal. I will look at these. > > BTW - which SCSI driver you are using right now? If this is not > sym53c8xx_2, but instead sym53c8xx or ncr53c8xx, then chances are > that switching to it will help. What you got from me it was using > sym53c8xx_2, IIRC. It may be a real problem with PCI bridges > handling though, or an intrplay with what milo sets and expects, and > then you need to carry over patches which apply. I thought about this, and I have built new kernels that define the sym53c8xx_2 as included in the kernel, rather than the sym53c8xx that was there originally. It didn't make a difference... Daniel -- Dr. Daniel Gruner dg...@ti... Dept. of Chemistry dan...@ut... University of Toronto phone: (416)-978-8689 80 St. George Street fax: (416)-978-5325 Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada finger for PGP public key |
