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From: Ulrich Teichert <krypton@ulrich-teichert.org>
To: Linux Alpha <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, mattst88@gmail.com
Subject: Newer kernels on the Jensen (was: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:57:04 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202109231957.18NJv4ar004671@valdese.nms.ulrich-teichert.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202109222050.18MKoNUh007272@valdese.nms.ulrich-teichert.org>

Hi,

I've narrowed the distribution quite a bit, as we've drifted
away from the orginal subject quite a lot ;-)

Just a quick update: I got the 128MB of RAM and after consulting the
Jensen hardware manual at:

http://www.home.unix-ag.org/nils/Alpha/Architectures/Jensen.html

and putting the four SIMMs into bank 0 only, I was able to boot my ancient
kernel with 128 MB of ram. So far so good, but I failed to boot the
5.15-rc2 kernel over aboot or from the CDROM, with exactly the same
behavior as before (uncompressing.... forever or machine check with HALT).

I'll try booting from CDROM with a serial line attached at the weekend,
perhaps that will give us a hint. I found the aboot sources at GitHub
and I'll set up another disk to play around with them after reading the
documentation on my old set of Debian Alpha CDROMs: I saw that they provided
two different kernels way back: one for the Jensen and a generic one,
so there *was* something definitely different...

CU,
Uli
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-23 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-15  3:52 [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15  3:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] compiler.h: Introduce " Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15  7:07   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-15  7:13   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-15  7:13     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-15 14:03     ` Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15 14:03       ` Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15  3:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] net: i825xx: Use absolute_pointer for memcpy from fixed memory location Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15  7:08   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-09-15  3:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] alpha: Move setup.h out of uapi Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15  3:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] alpha: Use absolute_pointer to define COMMAND_LINE Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15 19:18 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15 19:35   ` Guenter Roeck
2021-09-15 19:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15 19:50       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15 21:19         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-16  7:02           ` Anders Larsen
2021-09-16 16:25             ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-15 20:30       ` Helge Deller
2021-09-15 22:33       ` Guenter Roeck
2021-09-16 18:35         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18  9:51           ` Michael Cree
2021-09-18 13:11             ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-18 13:11               ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-18 17:04               ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18 17:17                 ` Thorsten Glaser
2021-09-18 17:21                   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18 17:28                 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18 20:26                 ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-18 20:26                   ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-18 20:46                   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18 21:12                     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-18 22:09                   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-19 15:13                     ` Dave Taht
2021-09-19 15:13                       ` Dave Taht
2021-09-20 18:25                     ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-20 18:25                       ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-20 18:46                       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-20 18:59                         ` Matt Turner
2021-09-20 19:45                           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-21 19:13                         ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-21 19:13                           ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-21 20:42                           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-21 21:39                           ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-22 20:50                             ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-22 20:50                               ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-23 19:57                               ` Ulrich Teichert [this message]
2021-09-25 21:01                                 ` Newer kernels on the Jensen (was: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro) John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-09-26 11:26                                   ` Newer kernels on the Jensen (was: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-26 11:35                                     ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-09-26 11:55                                       ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-09-26 17:12                                         ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-09-26 17:16                                           ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-10-02 15:30                                             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-10-18 15:37                                     ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-10-19 19:46                                       ` Ulrich Teichert
2021-10-22  8:46                                         ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-10-24  3:41                                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-09-16 19:47         ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro Linus Torvalds
2021-09-16  0:34   ` Michael Cree
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2021-09-25 18:31 ` Newer kernels on the Jensen (was: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro) Ulrich Teichert

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