Re: Update to Software Developer's Manual

2005-08-18 Thread Christian Hildner
Luck, Tony schrieb: There is a specification update to the Itanium Architecture Software Developer's Manual available at: http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/downloads/248699.htm One new goody is a new PAL call for error injection (which should help a lot with testing the MCA paths ... b

Re: [lia64-sim] ski fails to complete boot with debian root fs

2005-08-02 Thread Christian Hildner
Peter Chubb schrieb: Hi, Using the current kernel (2.6.13-rc3), and sim_defconfig, and a debian root filesystem created with debootstrap, the kernel boots, then when attempting to log in as root, displays /etc/issue then hangs. At this point, it is constantly calling do_page_fault->hand

Re: 32Bit vs 64Bit

2005-03-16 Thread Christian Hildner
regatta schrieb: Hi everyone, I have a question about the 64Bit mode in AMD 64bit Sorry, you are really in the wrong list. This is only about IA64 (Itanium linux). You may be best served in any of the user forums for AMD64. Christian My question is if I run a 32Bit application in Optreon AMD 64Bi

Re: Using ski to debug linux kernel ?

2005-03-04 Thread Christian Hildner
baswaraj kasture schrieb: I want to debug linux kernel (IA-64) with SKI. I have created simulated disk image. Where do i put my kernel image ? on the simulated disk or some where else ? The command line is: (x)ski bootloader your_kernel simscsi=your_diskimage bootloader is created from the kerne

Itanium product management at Intel

2005-03-03 Thread Christian Hildner
Hi there, First of all sorry for the partial abuse of this list, but we would like to meet a person at Intel who is responsible for the development of the Itanium architecture. Ideally, that person would be at some level of management. Since there are a lot of Intel employees listening here, I

Re: How to use ski to debug linux kernel ?

2005-02-08 Thread Christian Hildner
baswaraj kasture schrieb: Does anybody knows how to use sky to debug linux kernel ? You have to configure the kernel to be used in ski. It is not possible to run a generic kernel under ski since ski only emulates the raw processor and lacks firmware and peripherals. The kernel itself has emulat

Re: Kernel 2.4.21 gives kernel panic at boot time

2005-02-07 Thread Christian Hildner
baswaraj kasture schrieb: Thanks Christian, It worked for me. But (just for curacity), i didn't understood why it worked when i put scsi driver + mpt into the kernel ? What is the problem with initrd ? One thing in the make chain went wrong. Maybe you didn't make clean, or the config changed, or

Re: Kernel 2.4.21 gives kernel panic at boot time

2005-02-07 Thread Christian Hildner
Baswaraj, if you don't really want to have an initrd, it is better to drop it. Put your scsi driver + mpt into the kernel and then boot without initrd. See my sample config for 2.4.25 kernel. If you have an HP ZX6000 you should be fine using it without modification. If not focus on setting the c

Re: Which 2.4 kernel tree I should use for ia64?

2005-02-03 Thread Christian Hildner
Bjorn Helgaas schrieb: The most recent 2.4 patch for ia64 is here: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ports/ia64/v2.4/linux-2.4.26-ia64-040510.diff.bz2 I haven't been producing 2.4 patches recently because I don't think anyone would actually use them. My assumption is that most people using

Re: Kernel 2.4.21 hangs up

2005-02-01 Thread Christian Hildner
baswaraj kasture schrieb: Hi, I compiled kernel 2.4.21 with intel compiler . While booting it hangs-up . further i found that it hangsup due to call to "calibrate_delay" routine in "init/main.c". Also found that loop in the callibrate_delay" routine goes infinite.When i comment out the call to "cal

Re: optimize __gp location

2005-01-24 Thread Christian Hildner
Keith Owens schrieb: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:44:22 +0100, Christian Hildner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Keith Owens schrieb: When jiffies is within 22 bit range of __gp, the linker writes the sequence as addl r20=offset_of(jiffies,__gp),r1;; mov r16=r20;; ld8.acq r2

Re: optimize __gp location

2005-01-24 Thread Christian Hildner
Keith Owens schrieb: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:51:17 +0100, Christian Hildner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chen, Kenneth W schrieb: Can we position the __gp somewhat more optimally, to cover more of these symbols? Something like the following patch would make all of them fall into the

Re: optimize __gp location

2005-01-23 Thread Christian Hildner
Chen, Kenneth W schrieb: __gp is positioned so far out that it is almost at the end of all data sections. On 2.6.11-rc1, 80% of kernel data symbols are out of 22-bit immediate offset from __gp. This means accessing these symbols are unnecessarily expansive such that they have to go through globa