Bug#309551: 2.6.x kernel won't boot on an Itanium machine

[Peter Hessler <phessler@coverity.com>]

On Wed, 18 May 2005 09:25:04 +0200
maximilian attems <debian@sternwelten.at> wrote:

: On Tue, 17 May 2005, Peter Hessler wrote:
: > : as you like to try out kernels,
: > : did you try 2.6.12-rc4? 
: > 
: > that does not exist in apt-get land (although, I'm willing to
: > stipulate I'm doing the wrong thing).
: 
: no you are right it's not yet in experimental..
:  

The 2.6.12-rc4 kernel won't build on this ia64 box.

...
  CC      arch/ia64/mm/discontig.o
arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c: In function `find_pernode_space':
arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c:369: error: `__per_cpu_offset' undeclared
(first use in this function) arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c:369: error: (Each
undeclared identifier is reported only once arch/ia64/mm/
discontig.c:369: error: for each function it appears in.) arch/ia64/mm/
discontig.c:528:24: macro "per_cpu_init" passed 1 arguments, but takes
just 0 arch/ia64/mm/ discontig.c: At top level: arch/ia64/mm/
discontig.c:529: error: syntax error before '{' token make[2]: ***
[arch/ia64/mm/discontig.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [arch/ia64/mm] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/nfs/phessler/linux-2.6.12-rc4'
make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2
$

arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c:
527: /* ... */
528: void *per_cpu_init(void)
529: {