Noname/Cabriolet 1.3.27 kernels & patches

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@AZStarNet.com)
Thu, 14 Sep 1995 23:38:19 -0700


Not really enjoying being called "lazy bum" by Linus himself, I
figured it's time to put together a current set of Linux/Alpha kernels
& patches. But you have to understand: after running Linux/Alpha on
the Cabriolet for over a week and bashing on it heavily via NFS, X11,
and kernel builds and not seeing any problems, it's not an easy thing
to reboot just 'cuz there is a new kernel... :)

As always, the files can be found in directory:

http://www.azstarnet.com/pub/linux/axp/sys

The filenames are:

vmlinux-1.3.27-noname.gz pre-compiled Noname kernel
vmlinux-1.3.27-cabrio.gz pre-compiled Cabriolet kernel
axp-diff-1.3.27-pci.gz patches relative to Linus's source

Notice that I compiled kernels with "-g -O", so if you want a faster
kernel, you might want to recompile them with -O2 instead. Also, if
your favorite driver is missing in one of the above kernels, let me
know and I'll see it gets included in future releases (assuming that
driver works on the Alpha, that is... :).

The patches are small: they just fix a few typos and correct a problem
with the interrupt counters (thanks to Jay Estabrook for finding the
source of this problem). I think with this patch it should be
possible to build working kernels for DEC evaluation boards (EB66
etc.), but it hasn't been tested yet.

--david