new kernel binaries & patches

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@AZStarNet.com)
Thu, 5 Oct 1995 09:39:10 -0700


A new set of kernel binaries and patches is now on my ftp site. The
files are:

-rw-r--r-- 1 axplinux axplinux 19376 Oct 5 09:35 axp-diff-1.3.31-pci.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 axplinux axplinux 442692 Oct 5 09:25 vmlinux-1.3.31-cabrio.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 axplinux axplinux 463647 Oct 5 09:31 vmlinux-1.3.31-noname.gz

and they are all at:

ftp://ftp.azstarnet.com/pub/linux/axp/sys

The patch is relative to Linus's 1.3.31 kernel and mainly fixes
various tiepos and minor problems. The only new thing is that I
*finally* got around to start working on the Noname machine-check
handler. I believe the information that is printed now should help
track down hw problems. In particular, you should now be able to tell
whether a machine check is due to, say, a 2nd-level cache error or a
memory error. The sad thing is that the SCSI controller on my Noname
board seems to be all but dead, so I haven't really been able to test
that code yet. I was able to boot the kernel on the Noname and it
seemed to work all right, but that was about it. I'll need to fix the
hw before I can do more testing.

If you apply my patch: be sure to change the CFLAGS in the top-level
Makefile to suit your needs.

--david