I would like to work on and/or help with the port of the lkcd patch to the
Alpha platform. I have access to several different models with an Alpha
processor. Currently I have two 1200s and a ES40 running RedHat 6.0 Alpha, with
various versions of the 2.2 kernel. All have their swap on SCSI drives and are
available for lkcd testing.
Advice on how to proceed would be helpful. Looks like some functions need to be
made safe for 64 bits first, then new Alpha-specific functions need to be
stubbed out in new files in the Alpha arch tree. I'm a little worried about the
snippet of i386 ASM code to save the CPU registers. Hopefully I can use a
PALcode system call to do that (and similar things) on the Alpha.
Anyone on this list familiar with the Alpha platform, from the point of view of
the Linux kernel ? (I know, but I thought I'd ask!)
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Brian Hall <brianw.hall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Linux Consultant
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