compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

2018-01-31 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
Hello! Issue 711135 seems to never have been resolved yet (since Debian 6 "squeeze", which has the last kernel which boots on rx2620: 2.6.32-5-mckinley) Maybe this works: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2013/07/msg9.html (Will Deacon): ... Ok, after some more experimentation, this

Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

2018-02-01 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
t: it didn't boot. On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:33 PM, Ivan Zakharyaschev wrote: Issue 711135 seems to never have been resolved yet (since Debian 6 "squeeze", which has the last kernel which boots on rx2620: 2.6.32-5-mckinley) Maybe this works: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2

Re: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

2018-02-04 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
Hello! On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Frank Scheiner wrote: just a quick pointer: I had Debian Wheezy with Linux v3.2.x (vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-mckinley, i.e. [this one]) running w/o issues on my rx2620 with two Itanium 2 9040 (Montecito) both from an on-disk installation and a NFS root FS, but I ran it on b

Re: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

2018-02-04 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Ivan Zakharyaschev wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Frank Scheiner wrote: just a quick pointer: I had Debian Wheezy with Linux v3.2.x (vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-mckinley, i.e. [this one]) running w/o issues on my rx2620 with two Itanium 2 9040 (Montecito) both from an on-disk

Re: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

2018-02-04 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
ing at the first stage.) On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Ivan Zakharyaschev wrote: As for gathering information, I can't think of some useful information from a working system so far. The same applies to testing. We are able to test it here. Anyway, thanks for your messages, Frank

Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

2018-02-05 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
Hi Frank, On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Frank Scheiner wrote: The same applies to testing. We are able to test it here. Anyway, thanks for your messages, Frank and Daniel! The remaining useful tasks which I see are: 1) learn how to compile a bootable kernel for this machine and apply this knowledge

Re: Bug#711135: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

2018-02-07 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
eezy/linux-3.16.39' make: *** [build-arch] Error 2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2 debuild: fatal error at line 1357: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -j2 -b failed $ (Parallellization, i.e., -j2, doesn't affect the result; I have checked that.)

Re: Bug#711135: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

2018-02-09 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
Hi, On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Ivan Zakharyaschev wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Jason Duerstock wrote: Does the kernel from here work for you?: https://people.debian.org/~jrtc27/wheezy-backports-ia64/ Specifically https://people.debian.org/~jrtc27/wheezy-backports-ia64/linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo