Subject: Re: try a new kernel for me?
To: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/15/1996 01:23:18
Chris G Demetriou wrote
> 
> So, i just put up a new kernel at
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/incoming/cgd/netbsd.GENERIC.gz
> 
> In addition to the changes which have been checked in recently (most
> notably, lots of warning fixes and some other random stuff, like
> cleaning up the various machine-type support gunk and making the
> processor type names be more prettily printed), it has some changes
> that haven't been checked in.
> 
> In particular, i've written (i won't say designed, since i more or
> less took existing code and pasted it together 8-) a bit of common
> interrupt handling code, so that i don't have to write all new
> chained-interrupt handling code for each CPU that needs it.  (I'm in
> thep rocess of making the eb164 boot, and, well, i just couldn't stand
> to write _another_ chained-interrupt implementation, or, more probably
> to copy it from the kn20 support code and whack it until it worked.)
> 
> Anyway, I'd _really_ like people with AlphaStation 200/400-family
> machines, AXPpcis/Multias/UDBs, and AlphaStation 500/600-family
> machines to try it out.  It worked the first time booted on my
> AlphaStation 200, and so should work on the 200/400's and the
> AXPpci-family machines.  There's untested, new code for for the
> 500/600-family machines which could really use testing.  People
> wanting to try it on the TC machines are welcome to... you can at
> least see if the various other changes didn't break for you...  8-)
> 
> 
> please report results (positive or negative, along with your system
> type) to me directly.
> 
> 
> 
> thanks.
> 
> 
> later,
> 
> chris
> 

Hi Chris,

I have just booted up with your new kernel and as far what I am
concerned everthing seem to be fine.

One thing though.... we still get bad magic numbers on bootup....


cheerio Berndt
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Name	: Berndt Josef Wulf
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