From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 1 22:38:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from aromo.spock.cl (aromo.spock.cl [200.27.125.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B0837B417 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:38:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from aromo.spock.cl (aromo.spock.cl [200.27.125.98]) by aromo.spock.cl (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g326bwa78502 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 02:37:58 -0400 (CLT) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 02:37:58 -0400 (CLT) From: Roberto de Iriarte To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Alphaserver 2100A success with 4.5-Release and GCC whoes. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear FreeBSD-ers Just wanted to let you know that 4.5-Release installs and runs perfectly on the much discredited AS2100A (aka Lynx) Stability and performance running apache with mod-ssl, php, mysql 4 and postgresql 7.2 has been exellent so far. Owners of simmilar machines will be well served by this release Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 29 07:52:50 GMT 2002 murray@axpbuilder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC DEC AlphaServer 2100A AlphaServer 2100A 5/375, 374MHz 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. CPU: EV56 (21164A) major=7 minor=1 extensions=0x1 OSF PAL rev: 0x4000100020116 real memory = 1071570944 (1046456K bytes) avail memory = 1036943360 (1012640K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xfffffc00007bc000. md0: Malloc disk t20: using interrupt type 1 on pci bus 0 pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 2.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 pcib1: at device 3.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib1 sym0: <810a> port 0x5000-0x50ff mem 0x81040000-0x810400ff irq 28 at device 1.0 on pci2 sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking dc0: port 0x5400-0x547f mem 0x81040100-0x8104017f irq 48 at device 6.0 on pci2 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:00:f8:1f:f6:2a miibus0: on dc0 dcphy0: on miibus0 dcphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto mlx0: port 0x10000-0x1007f irq 32 at device 6.0 on pci0 mlx0: DAC960P/PD, 1 channel, firmware 2.73-0-00, 16MB RAM mlxd0: on mlx0 mlxd0: on mlx0 mlxd0: 12042MB (24662016 sectors) RAID 5 (online) pci0: (vendor=0x0000, dev=0x0000) at 12.0 irq 0 pci0: (vendor=0x0000, dev=0x0000) at 12.4 pci0: (vendor=0x0000, dev=0x0000) at 13.0 irq 0 pci0: (vendor=0x0000, dev=0x0000) at 13.4 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 mcclock0: at port 0x70-0x71 on isa0 sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0x1 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A, console sio1: reserved for low-level i/o ppc0: at port 0x3bc-0x3c3 irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode plip0: cannot reserve interrupt, failed. lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Polled port ppi0: on ppbus0 Timecounter "alpha" frequency 374662600 Hz Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle Mounting root from ufs:/dev/mlxd0a On a completely unrelated subject that might be of interest to Andrew i've been doing some experiments with DRM for an ATI Rage 128 on linux, that worked exellently on an AS800 with a 500Mhz 21164a, but only if the modules where compiled with -O -mcpu=ev56, -O2 -mcpu=ev56 locking the machine completely. So, it seems the problems are not completely alleviated by -mcpu=ev56. Regards. Thanks for all the good work Roberto To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message