On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 23:40 +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On 12/06/2013 04:01 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 22:26 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > >> After the request to reduce the kernels to e.g. SMP-only, my thought was > >> to provide only 32bit-UP and 64bit SMP kernels. > >> To be sure I asked on the parisc mailing list. The whole thread can be read here: > >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc/5283 > >> > >> Summary: > >> - yes, there exists quite some 32bit-only parisc SMP machines. > >> - the J5600 is SMP capable in both 32bit and 64bit mode, but currently it > >> only boots Linux with a 32bit SMP kernel and crashes with a 64bit SMP kernel. > >> We are working on resolving this... > > [...] > > > > Looks like you fixed this one: > > > > commit 54e181e073fc1415e41917d725ebdbd7de956455 > > Author: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> > > Date: Sat Oct 26 23:19:25 2013 +0200 > > > > parisc: Do not crash 64bit SMP kernels on machines with >= 4GB RAM > > > > Can you send a new config patch? > > actually I worked on a few more issues which were mentioned here in this bugreport... :-) > > Attached is a new patch - I hope I could address most questions. > Some notes: > - CONFIG_DEVTMPFS wasn't set before -> needed to be able to boot It is set in top-level config. > - CONFIG_HP_SDC_RTC - RTC driver is buggy and not needed - we use BIOS/PDC > - CONFIG_MEGARAID_NEWGEN=y -> use new megaraid instead of old. Old one crashed one of my machines. > - CONFIG_MLONGCALLS=y - needed for 64bit kernel. > This is fixed upstream with kernel 3.13 and can be removed as soon as the debian kernel uses 3.13. > Upstream commits (which I don't plan to backport): > b8d8fccd68c36a19fef9768d06aa150bbc8cdd74 > 161bd3bf60ee2c5765455ad3e3da967d03449f4a > 5ecbe3c3c690b5ab493c730c317475287a9e8b45 > - CONFIG_PATA_SIL680=m, you suggested to use this one instead of SIIMAGE. Worked. > SIL680-patch upstream for 3.13: a16ab68ee96005382738c706fd06bdd874d9185b > - CONFIG_E1000=m, needed, existing configs only included e100. It is set in top level config. > - AGP/DRM are now modules. Otherwise we don't have any output on the C8000 machines. You might yet need to make them built-in, as nothing else ensures that AGP devices are initialised before DRM devices. > As suggested I dropped parisc-smp and parisc64, still keeping parisc and parisc64-smp. > > We now can switch to use gcc-4.8 like the other arches. > The control-file needs update to reflect this (not included here). Can > you modify it by hand, if not, I can send a patch for that. The control file is updated by gencontrol.py; that's why it's not in svn. I've applied these changes except for the redundant config symbols. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.
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