RFC: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs v2

2019-08-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
[adding some ex-SGI folks to comment as well] Hi Tony, let me know what you think of this series. This drops the pretty much dead sn2 and hpsim support, which then allows us to build a single ia64 kernel image that supports all remaining systems without extra indirections in the fast path. A gi

Re: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

2019-08-09 Thread 'Christoph Hellwig'
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:01:30AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > So most configs now build, and the generic one boots on my Tukwila system. > > But a config based on arch/ia64/configs/zx1_defconfig gets a bunch > of build errors from different files complaining about 'max_mapnr' > > arch/ia64/mm/ini

Re: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

2019-08-08 Thread Luck, Tony
On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:51:23AM +0200, 'Christoph Hellwig' wrote: > On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 04:07:37PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 01:26:17PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > > Ugh! The rule to do the compression was in arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/Makefile > > > which went away as

Re: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

2019-08-07 Thread 'Christoph Hellwig'
On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 04:07:37PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 01:26:17PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > Ugh! The rule to do the compression was in arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/Makefile > > which went away as part of the deletion of hpsim. > > This fixes it ... should fold into the p

Re: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

2019-08-07 Thread Luck, Tony
On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 01:26:17PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > Ugh! The rule to do the compression was in arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/Makefile > which went away as part of the deletion of hpsim. This fixes it ... should fold into the patch that dropped the arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/Makefile I just cut/paste

RE: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

2019-08-07 Thread Luck, Tony
> Even if I explicitly run: > > $ make compressed > > It still doesn't build it. Weird. Ugh! The rule to do the compression was in arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/Makefile which went away as part of the deletion of hpsim. -Tony

RE: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

2019-08-07 Thread Luck, Tony
I like the idea ... and it sure gets rid of a lot of code. > A git tree is also available at: > >git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git ia64-remove-machvecs I grabbed this tree and ran though my build scripts. I found that vmlinux.gz doesn't get built. Which is odd, because I don't see

Re: RFC: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

2019-08-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 03:35:37PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Christoph! > > On 8/7/19 3:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > let me know what you think of this series. This drops the pretty much > > dead sn2 and hpsim support, which then allows us to build a single ia64 > > kern

Re: RFC: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

2019-08-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Christoph! On 8/7/19 3:30 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > let me know what you think of this series. This drops the pretty much > dead sn2 and hpsim support, which then allows us to build a single ia64 > kernel image that supports all remaining systems without extra indirections > in the fast p

RFC: remove sn2, hpsim and ia64 machvecs

2019-08-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Tony, let me know what you think of this series. This drops the pretty much dead sn2 and hpsim support, which then allows us to build a single ia64 kernel image that supports all remaining systems without extra indirections in the fast path. A git tree is also available at: git://git.inf