Re: Bug#711135: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

[Jason Duerstock <jason.duerstock@gmail.com>]

Hi Pedro,

Can you file a separate bug for this, and include a boot log?

Thanks,

Jason


On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 6:24 AM, Pedro Miguel Teixeira <pmsjt@texair.net> wrote:
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> The latest kernel available from Debian does work fine on my Montvale
> rx2660. However, I cannot boot my McKinley zx6000 with it. It will MCA
> really early in the boot process.
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> Linux b777 3.2.0-4-mckinley #1 SMP Debian 3.2.78-1 ia64 GNU/Linux
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> Pedro
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> From: Gatis Visnevskis
> Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 03:13
> To: Ivan Zakharyaschev
> Cc: Jason Duerstock; debian-ia64; glebfm@altlinux.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#711135: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2,
> mckinley, rx2620)
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> Hi all
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> I got working 3.2.0 kernel after some work. Without recompilation.
> HP rx4640. That was 2 years ago. Server switched off for cost saving :(
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> Started to install toolchain for compilation, but not finished.
> Internal disks were too small, some 36 gb i think.
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> It seems that i have to boot my server, and try again, as there is some
> light in end of tunnel. I was hoping to get LXC working on ia64 some
> day.
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> Gasha
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> On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 11:33:16 +0300 (MSK)
> Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz@altlinux.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> On Wed, 7 Feb 2018, Ivan Zakharyaschev wrote:
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>> > On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Jason Duerstock wrote:
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>> >>  Does the kernel from here work for you?:
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>> >>  https://people.debian.org/~jrtc27/wheezy-backports-ia64/
>> >>
>> >>  Specifically
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>> >> 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
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>> > (As I've already said, this kernel works for our machine.)
>> >
>> > How to reproduce this build? Have you published the corresponding
>> > rules?
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>> > I tried:
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>> > $ apt-get source linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-mckinley
>> > $ 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
>> > ...
>> >   Kernel: vmlinux.gz is ready
>> > ERROR: "numa_slit" [drivers/block/nvme.ko] undefined!
>> > make[6]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
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>> BTW, has anyone been working on adapting the newest kernel package
>> for ia64? (buildd simply reports that there are no rules for ia64.)
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>> As for building 3.16 myself (reproducing Jason's build), I've found
>> an obvious fix for the above build problem at
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>> https://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/commit/patches.arch/ia64-export-numa_slit.patch?h=packaging&id=bbf39ca510248f9f9cbfc3c65e8514df929a3094
>> :
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>> $ cd debian/patches/
>> $ mkdir bugfix/ia64
>> $ wget
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>> 'https://kernel.opensuse.org/cgit/kernel-source/plain/patches.arch/ia64-export-numa_slit.patch?h=packaging&id=bbf39ca510248f9f9cbfc3c65e8514df929a3094'
>> -O bugfix/ia64/ia64-export-numa_slit.patch
>> $ cat bugfix/ia64/ia64-export-numa_slit.patch
>> From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
>> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:01:30 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] ia64: export numa_slit()
>> Patch-Mainline: not yet
>> References: bnc#913030,FATE#317455
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>> nvme triggers a build error with 'numa_slit' being undefined.
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>> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
>> ---
>>   arch/ia64/mm/numa.c | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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>> diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c b/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c
>> index 88f4eeb..23a914c 100644
>> --- a/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c
>> +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/numa.c
>> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct node_cpuid_s node_cpuid[NR_CPUS] =
>>    * proportional to the memory access latency ratios.
>>    */
>>   u8 numa_slit[MAX_NUMNODES * MAX_NUMNODES];
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(numa_slit);
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>>   /* Identify which cnode a physical address resides on */
>>   int
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