On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 12:04 AM Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I share my experience of fresh install of and embedded SBC Alpha > (Eiger with EV6 500 MHz). > > Only an ancient Debian installer worked for me. The reason appeared to > be broken IRQ numbers for Eiger. > > So I used 2 disks. I first installed the ancient Debian on disk 1. > That worked. > > Next, I used that to bootstrap Gentoo on second disk, with ext3 as was > supported by Debian tooling. > > Then I debugged the new kernel and fixed the IRQ problem. Now I had a > recent kernel. I sent the patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/12/379 to > linux-alpha but it seems to have been ignored - PING! Sorry, not sure how I missed it. I'll include it in my pull request this weekend (with Maciej's R-b). Thanks!
