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Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 23:26:35 +0200 From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de> To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>, "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, "linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>, "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>, Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args Hi Tony! On 5/13/20 11:19 PM, Luck, Tony wrote: >> I tried my very best to test this patch including installing Debian 3 >> and 4 to try and get my hands on a gcc version that would allow >> cross-compiling for ia64. But no, even that wasn't possible let alone a >> working qemu for ia64. So this is largely untested but hopefully a >> straightforward change. If this breaks something we will hear from >> people if they still care about new kernels on ia64 since they won't be >> able to get any further than trying to start init. :) If this patch >> breaks it, I'll fix it. > > My last functional ia64 machine no longer powers on. Unclear if it's just > a broken power supply or something more serious. With almost nobody > in offices/labs anymore my search for another machine is proceeding > slowly. I could test it. As for getting a working cross-compiler for ia64 in Debian, this has been on my TODO list for a while now. Building a cross-compiler for ia64 is a bit more tricky due to it's dependency on the external libunwind. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@...ian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
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