FYI, as of today's build, the kernel works again: ii linux-image-4.17.0-2-mckinley 4.17.14-1 ia64 Linux 4.17 for Itanium 2+
$ uname -a Linux netsvcs1 4.17.0-2-mckinley #1 SMP Debian 4.17.14-1 (2018-08-13) ia64 GNU/Linux Jason On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 2:46 PM Frank Scheiner <frank.schei...@web.de> wrote: > On 07/28/2018 06:34 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > We might want to tackle the installer on ia64 next, but that should > > probably go onto the ia64 mailing list. The FTBFS of d-i on most > > ports architectures should have been fixed with this [1] commit. > > [...] > >> [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/commit/b4ec9f8a40c0f1a3a077d32debf751bc1c1b3b9f > > I'd definitely be interested. But due to the heat at the moment I don't > (want to) run my Itanium gear (or any other of my bigger/hotter > machines) that much. > > A few remaining issues should be solved before putting our hands on d-i: > > ## Bootloader ## > > elilo is no longer built for ia64 since Jessie and I'm not sure if GRUB > is already working well on ia64. I made good experience with elilo from > Wheezy, it works with everything I tested (Wheezy/Wheezy backports and > Gentoo kernels) so far, e.g. it was able to load a manually created ~120 > MiB (!) initramfs via netboot for a Gentoo installation in mid 2017. I > haven't yet tested the current Gentoo version of elilo ([2]) which is > more recent. > > [2]: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-boot/elilo > > ## Linux kernel ## > > So far we don't have a working Debian Linux kernel for ia64. All tested > 4.x Debian Linux kernels show the same issue: > > ``` > [ 0.052000] Kernel panic - not syncing: corrupted stack end detected > inside scheduler > ``` > > ...as mentioned in [3] throughout rx2620, rx4640, rx2660 and rx2800 i2. > I tested up to 4.18.0-rc3 without luck. > > [3]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2018/06/msg00000.html > > I therefore used the current stable Gentoo kernel sources (v4.14.52, > [4]) to build a working Linux kernel for ia64. > > [4]: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources > > May I ask what Linux kernel version you are running on the buildds (lenz > and titanium as per [5]) and what type of machines these are? > > [5]: https://monitor.jrtc27.com/ > > Cheers, > Frank > >
