Hi Jushua,
On 20.05.23 20:11, Joshua Scoggins wrote:
I used to daily drive my own zx6000 (and had a zx2000 and rx5670 as
well) back in 2008-2012. I was running Gentoo Linux on it and it was for
the most part fine. I got Firefox 9 working and even Minecraft! What
I've observed is that GCC's support for ia64 seems to have bit rotted
over time (I've encountered internal compiler errors over the years on
seemingly standard C++ code).
While I still have the zx6000, I haven't booted in at least 5 years. I
don't fully trust contemporary versions of GCC to not generate
potentially garbage code (unless things have changed).
It could interesting to see, how it behaves with Debian Sid and Linux
6.3.x (see [1]). I figure the zx6000 is a rx2600 in disguise, I have a
rx2620 working and believe to have seen others with a rx2600 reporting
success some time ago on this list. What Itaniums do you have in there,
Madisons or original McKinleys?
[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2023/05/msg00010.html
Cheers,
Frank
