> I tried my very best to test this patch including installing Debian 3 > and 4 to try and get my hands on a gcc version that would allow > cross-compiling for ia64. But no, even that wasn't possible let alone a > working qemu for ia64. So this is largely untested but hopefully a > straightforward change. If this breaks something we will hear from > people if they still care about new kernels on ia64 since they won't be > able to get any further than trying to start init. :) If this patch > breaks it, I'll fix it.
My last functional ia64 machine no longer powers on. Unclear if it's just a broken power supply or something more serious. With almost nobody in offices/labs anymore my search for another machine is proceeding slowly. Which is to say ... it won't be me noticing any breakage (at least not for a while). I think Al Viro bought an ia64 on ebay a while back ... if that's still running perhaps he'll test? -Tony