1. Testing environment

- Dell Precision 410 (rfhnt8004)
Hardware: Operating systems:
Dual Pentium II CPU each 400 MhzWindows XP
256 MB RAMSuSE Linux Professional 8.2 (Kernel 2.4.20)
Adaptec AIC-7890 Ultra2 SCSI ControllerSuSE Linux Professional 8.2 (Kernel 2.6.0 test 9)
NetBSD 1.6.1 (Kernel 1.6ZC GENERIC.MP)

TCP/IP-specifications:

Hostname: rfhnt8004
IPv4-address: 194.95.108.34 (assigned by DHCP)
IPv6-address: fe80::2c0:4fff:fe72:c00b
2001:638:a01:2:2c0:4fff:fe72:c00b / 64
MAC-address: 00:c0:4f:72:c0:0b (DellComp_72:c0:0b)

- SUN Ultra 10 (rfhs8036)
Hardware:Operating system:

UltraSPARC-IIi, 300 Mhz

SUN Solaris 9
1 GB RAM

TCP/IP-specifications:

Hostname: rfhs8036
IPv4-address: 194.95.108.34 (assigned by DHCP)
IPv6-address: fe80::a00:20ff:fe9c:3096
2001:638:a01:2:a00:20ff:fe9c:3096 / 64
MAC-address: 08:00:20:9c:30:96 (SunMicro_9c:30:96)

- Digital DNARD (shark)
Hardware:Operating system:
233MHz StrongARM CPUNetBSD 1.6
32MB RAM
10MBd Ethernet

TCP/IP-specifications:

Hostname: sharky
IPv4-address: 194.95.108.33
IPv6-address: fe80::a00:2bff:fe81:63ac
2001:638:a01:2:a00:2bff:fe81:63ac / 64

- Sun SPARCstation 5 (smaug)
Hardware:Operating system:
85MHzNetBSD 1.6
192MB RAM
10/100MBit "Big Ethernet" SBus Network Card
Onboard SCSI-Controller

TCP/IP-specifications:

Hostname: smaug
IPv4 address: 194.95.108.11
IPv6 address: 2001:638:a01:2:a00:20ff:fe72:7287

- yui
Hardware:Operating system:
1.7GHz PIVNetBSD 1.6
1GB RAM
100MBd Ethernet
Platte /disk4 als Software-Raid (CCD) Level 1 mit 2*34GB QUANTUM ATLAS10K2
Adaptec SCSI (aic7892 Wide)
3Com 3c905C-TX 10/100 Ethernet

TCP/IP-specifications:

Hostname: yui
IPv4 address: 194.95.108.191
IPv6 address: 2001:638:a01:2:2b0:d0ff:feee:7066

Annotation on compiling the Linux 2.6.0 test 9 Kernel

When compiling this version of the Linux Kernel, it is very important to use the version 2.95.3 of the gcc compiler. We first tried to use version 3.3 of gcc which failed to compile, because there are many comparisons between signed and unsigned integer variables in the source code of the aic7xxx driver for an Adaptec scsi controller, which is included in the kernel source. These comparisons produce compiler-warnings when using the 3.3 gcc-version, but are not recognized by the 2.95.3 gcc-version. Because the compiler is passed the Werror flag by the Makefile, this warnings are seen as errors and the comilation-procedure is stopped.