Mikulas: >> Here I'm sending some ia64 patches to make it work in the ski emulator. >> This has been broken for a long time. Thanks - There are questions from time to time on how to test ia64 for those people who do not have hardware. Mikael: > Thanks. I've recently started running 3.x kernels on ia64 via ski, > but I'm getting random kernel crashes with 3.13. I'll give your > patches a try shortly. Let me know how that goes - I haven't used ski in a decade and have quite forgotten how to set it up. > I've written a few patches to improve other aspects of running the > kernel on ski: > - kernel patch to turn PAL_HALT_LIGHT into a new SSC_HALT_LIGHT, > and a corresponing ski patch to pause() on SSC_HALT_LIGHT; this > together with the fixed-frequency ITC patch allows ski to idle > with very low host CPU overhead when the guest kernel idles > - kernel patch to bump the RAM size from 130MB to 2GB > > I'd be happy to share these patches if there's interest in them. It seems that there are at least two of you out there - so I'm happy to take kernel patches that make things better. Not sure where the ski patches go - is someone maintaining that? -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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