5.3-BETA1 for Alpha available

Wilko Bulte wb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Sun Aug 29 12:01:28 PDT 2004


On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 03:11:50PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote..
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:50:02AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 01:40:33AM +0200, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote..

...

> > > On AXPpci33 it dies while testing sym0. Before this sym0 reports:
> > > sym0: <810> port 0x10100-0x101ff mem 0x81854100-0x818541ff at device 6.0 on pci0
> > > sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking
> > > CACHE TEST FAILED: timeout.
> > > sym0: CACHE INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED.
> > > 
> > > fatal kernel trap:
> > > 
> > >     trap entry     = 0x4 (unaligned access fault)
> > >     cpuid          = 0
> > >     faulting va    = 0xdeadc0dedeadc0de
> 
> Mmm - it's dereferencing nonsense.
> Guess this bug is old and just triggered as a result of the timeout.
> I'm missing an IRQ in the probe, so the timeout is reasonable.
> Normaly we should see:
> sym0: interrupting at ISA irq 11
> A complete boot -v output would be interessting to see routing
> decisions - sounds much like someone broke IRQ routing on alpha.
> LCA based alphas are the only alphas so far that we have enabled
> interrupt routing and possibly the only alphas that share ISA and PCI
> interrupts.

Ruslan just reported that BETA1 just installed fine on his NoName
(see his posting to alpha@).  

> > Hmm.... Both PC64 and AXPpci33 are EV4x machines..  Hmm.. all my test
> > boxes are >= EV5
> 
> To be exact AXPpci33 is LCA with an 21066 CPU or LCA45 with an 21066A
> CPU, which is very similar to EV4 and EV45.

Ruslan has a 166MHz, so an 21066 CPU.

> It seems that those boards are sold with 21066 CPUs only and that
> 21066A only made it into Alphabooks and maybe some Multias.

Not true.  I at some point had a 233MHz NoName.  Don't know if it
was originally supplied with that CPU.  I also had a 233MHz Multia
at some point.  Whatever..

W/
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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org


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