On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 09:19:41PM +0000, 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. Ah. :/ > > Which is to say ... it won't be me noticing any breakage (at least not for > a while). If we can't get it tested on a machine soon, would you still be ok proceeding with this patch? > > I think Al Viro bought an ia64 on ebay a while back ... if that's still running > perhaps he'll test? I have to admit, that out of pure desperation I considered buying on too on ebay. But they are still suprisingly pricy. Christian
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