On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:26:35PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Tony! > > On 5/13/20 11:19 PM, Luck, Tony wrote: > >> 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. > > I could test it. Hey Adrian, That would be excellent and much appreciated. Do you think you can get it tested soon? > > As for getting a working cross-compiler for ia64 in Debian, this has > been on my TODO list for a while now. Building a cross-compiler for > ia64 is a bit more tricky due to it's dependency on the external > libunwind. I hit that roadblock as well but yeah, a cross-compiler would be helpful. Christian
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