On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:36:57PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> 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 Is the old kexec tree no longer maintained?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.

I have been using kexec-tools-testing on ia64 on the Tiger2 platofm.
And I have been doing that with 2.6.20-rc1 and beyond.  So I am pretty
sure that there can't be much missing. I do however suspect that there
are some problems in the kexec-tools-testing code that Altix tickles.

-- 
Horms
  H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/
  W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/

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