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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:18:09 -0400
From: Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com>
To: George France <france@handhelds.org>
Cc: Martin Brulisauer <martin@uceb.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kbuild 2.5.26 - arch/alpha
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:00:50PM -0400, George France wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 July 2002 13:01, Martin Brulisauer wrote:
> >
> > Hopefully I can fix core_cia.c to run on XLT's (it's hard to find any
> > documentation on this toppic) and arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c for
> > machines booting with linload.exe/MILO because the hwrpb
> > struct is built by MILO and does not match the one booting from
> > SRM (eg. empty percpu struct resulting in a cpucount of zero
> > in /proc/cpuinfo).
> 
> I am not very familiar with the XLT systems. Maybe Jay can help.  He
> has been working on Alpha systems for a very long time.
> 
> Jay, do you have any suggestions???

Yup, use the following patches, based on pre8-2.4.19, to fix the
DMA windowing problem with the early (read: 300MHz) XLT boxes.

As for the CPU count being zero, well, aside from looking bad, what
seems to be the problem? ;-}

 --Jay++

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