From: Jay Estabrook (jay.estabrookhp.com)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2007 - 09:11:52 CDT

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Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 March 2007, Jay Estabrook wrote:
>> So, one can now download AC3 in record time, but how does it
>> actually work on your Alphas?
>
>> 3. SABLE/LYNX (AS2100/AS2100A) support is currently broken - how
>> many folks does this affect?
>
> How is it broken?

It won't complete booting - dies someplace in the middle, looks like
before it gets to bus probing and such.

> I have a four proc AS2100 I could test with if needed. It
> is currently running Debian with an SMP kernel build that actually works.
> 4x275MHz procs and 1GB of RAM. Hasn't been turned on in a while, but might
> try.

It'd be worthwhile knowing what kernel DOES run on AS2100; the one in
AC3 is based on 2.6.17 plus the usual RH backports...

> The beast is fairly slow, though, which is why it hasn't been turned on in
> quite some time.

Yes, probably why it's tested so infrequently as well... ;-}

Thanks!

--Jay++

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