On 12/22/06, Jay Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Magnus Damm wrote: > > On 12/19/06, Jay Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to spend time on fixing up ia64 support properly, but it has > > been sort of a moving target because of heavy development. So to be > > That was what i thought. Is the old kexec tree no longer maintained?
I would not call the old tree maintained. Other people may have different opinions though. Simon (Horms) and I felt that it was painful to keep track of all patches floating around for the old tree - they were never picked up - so to solve this problem Simon created the kexec-tools-testing tree and he has been picking up patches ever since. > I assume you have included all ia64 patches from Nan-hai? There is > certainly work needed to be done to make ia64 support solid in > kexec-tools-testing. I know that Simon has been trying hard to locate all patches and include them in the tree, but he may have missed a few. It is also possible that some patches are in a deadlock state because of review and different opinions on how things should be implemented. But the most likely problem IMO is that the kernel code and the kexec-tools code are out of sync because of all recent development. Good thing is that all these things are solvable - it's just a matter of spending time. And now when kexec for ia64 is included in 2.6.20-rc1 we should have some "firm ground" to work with which is nice. > > Are you still experiencing this problem? > > Yes. Ack. =) > > > > You mention the RHEL5 kexec plus your patch, do you have a pointer to > > a SRPM of the version you are using? > > > > What kernel are you using? Any patches? Have you tried 2.6.20-rc1? > > I have not tried 2.6.20-rc1 yet, but i believe it is a very good target. > It contains all kernel patches IA64 SN needs, i think. I recently > focused on kernel and kexec-tools of rhel5. I see. I've mainly worked with vanilla kernels and kexec-tools-testing so we need to find some common ground. Maybe it is a good idea that you test the RHEL5 kernel with kexec-tools-testing and old kexec-tools, while I do the same with 2.6.20-rc... Or we could both focus on 2.6.20-rc and then backport whatever needed for the kernel. > > Do you have time for more testing? > > > > I will go on vacation over the christmas and new years, but if you > > have time after that I'd be more than happy to work with you to > > resolve this. I suspect it will be a matter of bisecting and testing > > until we find what is broken. I have a few ia64 boxes here that I can > > use too, but no altix. =) > > I would be very glad to work with you to make kexec-tools-testing > solid for IA64 SN. I can not speak for other IA64 boxes since i do > not have access to them (except one zx workstation which i had some > problem with.) Any time after new year would be perfect. Great, let's exercise our machine park and minds after new year then! =) Cheers, / magnus _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list fastboot@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
