5.3-BETA1 for Alpha available

[Bernd Walter]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:01:20PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 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@).  

I saw - even Gheorghe reported his System to boot with -v.
Seems like the IRQ line was intended to be printed after the panic.
Would be nice to know how this could be reproduced.

> > > 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.

Unless he underclocked his System :)

> > 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..

I know that the board works with an A type CPU and their higher clock
rates, but 21066A CPUs are not mentioned in my Version of AXPpci33's
"OEM Design Guide".
What is mentioned in it is a 21068 66MHz CPU, which I don't know
anything else about.

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