Subject: Re: [aklug-ops] Looking for ISP that supports Linux
From: Tom (thogland@alaskatech.org)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 10:53:29 AKDT
> > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Tom wrote:
> > Oh, and FTR - mis-compiling a kernel on an Alpha will *not* make you
> > happy. Apparently my AS800 is a "corelle" variant of the Noritake family,
> > yet compiling a Noritake kernel hangs on boot. As the kernel doesn't
> > understand 'corelle' or 'noritake-p', all you can use is generic. Anyone
> > have a good idea on how to fix that? (One that keeps me out of the 2.5
> > kernel tree, anyway <g>)
>
> Mike Tibor replied:
> I may be wrong, but I thought I remember seeing something on axp-list that
> for as800 you also need to select "EV5 CPU daughtercard (model 5/xxx)"
> when you select the Noritake cpu type.
Hmmm... I checked the description in the kernel docs for that option, and
it didn't mention it, but I might just try it anyway. Now that I've got a
good, bootable kernel I can play around a bit :-)
> Even so, I don't think you're giving up much at all if you compile a
> Generic kernel--according to linux/arch/alpha/Makefile you're still
> compiling for ev5:
>
> ifeq ($(CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC),y)
> CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -mcpu=ev5
>
> For my 164LX I used to use Generic, except I also changed the above to
>
> CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -mcpu=ev56
That'll be next to try, although I believe the only differences are
chipset-related, not much that would crank up the performance.
Don't suppose you've got a 264-motherboard just laying around needing a
home, do you? :-) There's a couple chips on eBay...
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