Hi Jason,
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Jason Duerstock wrote:
Does the kernel from here work for you?:
https://people.debian.org/~jrtc27/wheezy-backports-ia64/
Specifically
https://people.debian.org/~jrtc27/wheezy-backports-ia64/linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-mckinley_3.16.39-1+deb8u1~bpo70+1+gcc4.4_ia64.deb
(As I've already said, this kernel works for our machine.)
How to reproduce this build? Have you published the corresponding rules?
I tried:
$ apt-get source linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-mckinley
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Picking 'linux' as source package instead of
'linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-mckinley'
NOTICE: 'linux' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control
system at:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/kernel/linux.git
Need to get 84.2 MB of source archives.
Get:1 http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports/main linux
3.16.39-1+deb8u1~bpo70+1 (dsc) [97.4 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports/main linux
3.16.39-1+deb8u1~bpo70+1 (tar) [81.8 MB]
Get:3 http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports/main linux
3.16.39-1+deb8u1~bpo70+1 (diff) [2,316 kB]
Fetched 84.2 MB in 9s (9,087 kB/s)
dpkg-source: info: extracting linux in linux-3.16.39
dpkg-source: info: unpacking linux_3.16.39.orig.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: unpacking linux_3.16.39-1+deb8u1~bpo70+1.debian.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: applying debian/version.patch
...
$ cd linux-3.16.39/
$ sed -e 's/gcc-4.6/gcc-4.4/g' debian/config/ia64/defines -i
$ debuild -b -us -uc
$ debuild -j2 -b -us -uc
...
LINKvmlinux
LD vmlinux.o
MODPOST vmlinux.o
GEN .version
CHK include/generated/compile.h
UPD include/generated/compile.h
CC init/version.o
LD init/built-in.o
KSYM.tmp_kallsyms1.o
KSYM.tmp_kallsyms2.o
LD vmlinux
SYSMAP System.map
Building modules, stage 2.
OBJCOPY arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/vmlinux.bin
GZIParch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/vmlinux.gz
MODPOST 2506 modules
LN vmlinux.gz
Kernel: vmlinux.gz is ready
ERROR: "numa_slit" [drivers/block/nvme.ko] undefined!
make[6]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make[5]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[4]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[3]: *** [__sub-make] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/imz/with-gcc-4.4.7_wheezy/linux-3.16.39/debian/build/build_ia64_none_itanium'
make[2]: *** [debian/stamps/build_ia64_none_itanium_plain] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/imz/with-gcc-4.4.7_wheezy/linux-3.16.39'
make[1]: *** [build-arch_ia64_none_itanium_real] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/imz/with-gcc-4.4.7_wheezy/linux-3.16.39'
make: *** [build-arch] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1357:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -j2 -b failed
$
(Parallellization, i.e., -j2, doesn't affect the result; I have checked
that.)
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Ivan Zakharyaschev wrote:
Yes, [this one] doesn't boot on our system. It might even be in our case a
strange/buggy behavior caused by old firmware for an otherwise correct
kernel binary code (or, of course, the code might be not correct). Perhaps,
there is a difference between yours and ours machines:
root@rx2620:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor : GenuineIntel
arch : IA-64
family : 31
model : 2
model name : Madison up to 9M cache
revision : 1
archrev: 0
features : branchlong
cpu number : 0
cpu regs : 4
cpu MHz: 1600.021
itc MHz: 1600.021752
BogoMIPS : 2390.01
siblings : 1
physical id: 0
processor : 1
vendor : GenuineIntel
arch : IA-64
family : 31
model : 2
model name : Madison up to 9M cache
revision : 1
archrev: 0
features : branchlong
cpu number : 0
cpu regs : 4
cpu MHz: 1600.021
itc MHz: 1600.021752
BogoMIPS : 2390.01
siblings : 1
physical id: 1
root@rx2620:~#
It looks like ours has 2 Madison CPUs (if we are to trust this cpuinfo),
which are older than your Montecito ones.
[this one]:
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/linux-image-3.2.0-4-mckinley
So far, we've done a number of attempts to compile and boot a kernel (I'm
going to post the details and the kernels soon), and my conclusion so far is
that the only affecting factor is the version of gcc (even not -O1 vs
-Os/-O2).
gcc <= 4.5.3 produces a bootable kernel (as for
linux-image-3.2.0-4-mckinley, gcc 4.4.7 from wheezy and gcc 4.5.3 from
snapshots produced a bootable one in my experiments);
gcc > = 4.6.3 produces a non-bootable kernel.
So this already gives an initial hypothesis about the solution to 1):
To compile a bootable kernel for this machine, use gcc <= 4.5.3.
