Bug#671034: [ia64] linux fails to load INIT (Still affects 3.2.19-1)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Thibaut VARENE wrote:

> Sadly I don't have testing points between Squeeze's kernel (which
> works) and the first kernel with which I reported the issue...

For concreteness: do you mean that 2.6.32-45 works or some earlier
kernel that was in squeeze?

If you suddenly find yourself with a lot of time and no idea what to
do with it, there are pre-compiled kernels in between (e.g., 2.6.35)
available from <http://snapshot.debian.org/>.  I don't think anyone
on ia64 was tracking experimental, so there's not much reason to
believe in the quality of those kernels, but it would be interesting
to see roughly when the bug was introduced.

> Though the symptoms are different, I wonder how much of this bug
> related to #595502.

I hope not much. :)

Thanks,
Jonathan