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

2018-02-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi all, just a quick pointer: I had Debian Wheezy with Linux v3.2.x (vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-mckinley, i.e. [this one]) running w/o issues on my rx2620 with two Itanium 2 9040 (Montecito) both from an on-disk installation and a NFS root FS, but I ran it on bare-metal, not in a VM. I'm currently run

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

2018-02-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Ivan, On 02/04/2018 11:53 PM, Ivan Zakharyaschev wrote: I had Debian Wheezy with Linux v3.2.x (vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-mckinley, i.e. [this one]) running w/o issues on my rx2620 with two Itanium 2 9040 (Montecito) both from an on-disk installation and a NFS root FS, but I ran it on bare-metal, not

ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-02 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear all, recently a kernel package for ia64 appeared on ftp.p.d.o and hence I thought it might be a good time to give it a try to create a Debian GNU/Linux Sid for ia64 FS with `debootstrap` from Sid but executing from a Debian Wheezy installation. After some trial and error I was successful

Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 06/04/2018 11:02 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Which build dependencies are you missing? I just did a test build with sbuild and the build dependencies install just fine without any issues. I tried to follow the guide on the Debian wiki ([1]) and the `apt[-get] build-dep

Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 06/06/2018 02:33 AM, James Clarke wrote: Is there a good reason why we're not fixing the crashing instead of working around it? At least I am currently missing the knowledge to quickly fix the "real" issue - which is still to be determined. And on the other hand, if this workaround was goo

Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-06-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 06/06/2018 02:13 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 06/06/2018 02:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: In the meantime - with the workaround enabled - the "standard" initramfs as used in Debian becomes usable again on ia64 with the next release of klibc already. Have you submit

Re: ports/ia64: klibc-utils in Sid should use static binaries

2018-07-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
ibc - minimal libc subset for use with initramfs libklibc-dev - kernel headers used during the build of klibc Changes: klibc (2.0.4-12) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium . [ Ben Hutchings ] * debian/control: Point Vcs URLs to Salsa . [ Frank Scheiner ] * [klibc] ia64: Build static too

Debian installer

2018-07-29 Thread Frank Scheiner
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/insta

Re: Debian installer

2018-08-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 08/15/2018 02:07 AM, Jason Duerstock wrote: 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) ia

Re: Debian installer

2018-09-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 08/15/2018 08:33 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 08/15/2018 02:07 AM, Jason Duerstock wrote: 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 D

Re: Debian installer

2018-09-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 09/04/2018 08:28 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Cool, will give it a try soon. I finally managed to test - now already - 4.17.0-3-mckinley on all of my Itanium machines. Works great on most of them: ``` root@rx2660:~# dmesg | grep hp [    0.00] booting generic kernel on platform hpzx1

Re: Debian installer

2018-09-13 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 09/04/2018 08:28 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Unfortunately both 4.17.0-2 and 4.17.0-3 do not work on my rx2800 i2. Shortly after loading the initramfs the machine resets without further output in between: [...] A Gentoo Linux kernel 4.14.65 works fine on the rx2800 i2 (and also the above

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-12

2019-04-14 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, much obliged for the ia64 ISOs. :-D On 4/12/19 11:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-04-12 for the following Debian Ports architectures: [...] * ia64 [...] Please test those images and report back over the mailing list for

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-12

2019-04-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
Update for rx4640, see below: On 4/14/19 22:41, Frank Scheiner wrote: I used the 2019-04-12 image ([1]) and tested a normal mode installation on the following machines with mixed success: [1]: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-04-12/debian-10.0-ia64-NETINST-1.iso ## rx2620 (w/2x

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-04-12

2019-04-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/15/19 18:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Apr 15, 2019, at 6:10 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Update for rx4640, see below: Indeed the rx4640 behaves differently than the rx2620, despite the same chipset and the older Itanium processors. The installation works through identically to

Re: debian-installer grub-efi test image

2019-04-30 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 4/30/19 18:19, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 4/30/19 6:13 PM, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote: And setup will proceed correctly. So, this is what mean by “replacing the executable”. In a nutshell replacing bootnetia64.efi with bootnetia64.efi and keep everything else in the tarball. This p

Re: IA-64 GCC deprecation?

2019-06-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 6/14/19 16:29, Jason Duerstock wrote: Is there any reason I couldn't become the ia64 maintainer, assuming there was someone available to act as my general gcc mentor? That's great news! Thanks, Jason, for taking over maintenance and thanks, Jim, for keeping it alive until recently. Also, my

Re: IA-64 GCC deprecation?

2019-06-16 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 6/16/19 01:14, Jim Wilson wrote: On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 2:22 AM Frank Scheiner wrote: Because as long as there's software for a specific hardware, that hardware **is** useful IMHO. Devaluation of hardware in my eyes does not come through so-called product obsolescence - hardware neve

Re: ia64 port needs help in order to be saved

2020-08-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 04.08.20 10:53, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! On 8/2/20 8:05 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Unfortunately, this blade has the same architecture as the RX2800 and won't properly boot due to this bug in the DMA code [1] for which there is no fix yet, see also [2]. I spend a lot o

Re: ia64 port needs help in order to be saved

2020-08-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi, On 04.08.20 13:20, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 8/4/20 12:40 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: The machine is running Squeeze now. I will install unstable using debootstrap on the second disk later today and then the buildd is finally up and running again. Great work and great news! So do

Re: ia64 port needs help in order to be saved

2020-08-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 04.08.20 15:12, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 04.08.20 13:20, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: The kernel has this configuration from Sergei [1] and the ptrace patch from the Gentoo kernel, otherwise it's a vanilla upstream kernel 4.14.83. I cannot say yet which particular change fixe

Re: ia64 port needs help in order to be saved

2020-08-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 05.08.20 14:51, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Frank! On 8/4/20 9:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: All kernels used Sergei's configuration adapted to enable network boot. * 4.14.83 vanilla w/o ptrace patch and compiled with "gcc (Gentoo 7.3.0-r3 p1.4) 7.3.0" leads to

Re: ia64 port needs help in order to be saved

2020-08-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 05.08.20 15:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On 8/5/20 2:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: So latest 4.14.x kernels should work w/o the patch on a rx2800 i2 with Itanium 9300 (Tukwila) series processors - if they are compiled with gcc 10. I'm currently running a 4.14.19

Re: ia64 port needs help in order to be saved

2020-08-05 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 05.08.20 16:02, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 8/5/20 3:56 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: And the behavior is similar to what Sergei wrote in [1] I think, so I'm confident that this is not coming from the boot loader, but from using gcc 7.3.0 w/o ptrace patch. [1]: https://lore.kerne

Debian Sid installation successful on rx6600

2020-11-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi all, just a quick success report: Yesterday I did a Debian installation on a rx6600 using the latest installation image available ATM ([1]) and that went through w/o any real problems using only the defaults in "normal" installation mode. Congratulations, Adrian! :-) [1]: https://cdimage.de

Re: Debian Sid installation successful on rx6600

2020-11-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 07.11.20 16:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! On 11/7/20 4:11 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Yesterday I did a Debian installation on a rx6600 using the latest installation image available ATM ([1]) and that went through w/o any real problems using only the defaults in "n

Re: Debian Sid installation successful on rx6600

2020-11-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 08.11.20 11:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Frank! On 11/7/20 8:57 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: I tried the one from today on the rx2660 I have at home ATM. The rx6600 is at a remote location but offline. Unfortunately the new image shows a problem during the initial

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-04-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 09.04.22 09:09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Here are the firmware versions of my RX2660: [mp0017a499dd1c] MP:CM> sr SYSREV Current firmware revisions MP FW : F.02.17 BMC FW: 05.23 EFI FW: ROM A 05.63, ROM B 07.12 System FW : ROM A 01.00, ROM B 04.04, B

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-04-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi, On 09.04.22 10:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On 4/9/22 10:06, Frank Scheiner wrote: Could you please also mention what processors you have installed, Montecito (90xy) or Montvale (91xy[z])? I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but suspect it could. glaubitz@ele

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-04-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 09.04.22 13:45, Anton Borisov wrote: my info so far: [root@rx2660 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo |less vendor     : GenuineIntel arch       : IA-64 family     : Itanium 2 model      : 0 revision   : 7 archrev    : 0 features   : branchlong, 16-byte atomic ops cpu number : 0 cpu regs   : 4 cpu MHz    

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-04-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 09.04.22 20:43, Anton Borisov wrote: cpuinfo was from RHEL 5.4 environment. IIRC it had 2.6.18 kernel, that's why such a tight model name. I'll give more details on my next boot with a fresh snapshot... That explains it. None of the kernels from 5.x tree worked for me. Everytime I hit that

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-04-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 09.04.22 20:53, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 09.04.22 20:43, Anton Borisov wrote: None of the kernels from 5.x tree worked for me. Everytime I hit that memcpy BUG. I've booted off from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2019-07-16/ <https://cdimage.debian.org/cdima

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-04-25 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi guys, On 25.04.22 10:09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: From what I can understand by the information in the bugcheck, this is somewhat related to a violation in parameter copy from user to kernel during some boot-time, crypto, self-test. Does that sound right? If that is the case, how w

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-04-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Pedro, Anton, all so I did some first testing on my Montecito driven rx2660: firmware info: ``` [rx2660-mp-ilo] MP:CM> sysrev SYSREV Current firmware revisions MP FW : F.02.17 BMC FW: 05.23 EFI FW: ROM A 07.12, ROM B 07.12 System FW : ROM A 04.04, ROM B 04.04, Boot ROM A

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-04-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Pedro, On 26.04.22 17:01, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote: On 2022/Apr/26, at 06:34, Frank Scheiner wrote: @Anton: So maybe best to give `hardened_usercopy=off` a try on your rx2660, too. From my testing on rx2660 and rx2620 this seems to unbreak the kernel boot and maybe also makes it less

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-05-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 27.04.22 14:45, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: is it possible to fill a bug report at linux kernel bugzilla and post full stack trace with the description to: linux-ia64@vger.k.o cc: linux-kernel@vger.k.o , linux...@kvack.org and CC to the author of the patch as well? https://lwn.net/Articles/694470

[ia64] Linux 5.17 (Debian) - Hardened Usercopy: kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:100

2022-05-10 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear all, "hardened usercopy" does not work correctly on ia64. And deactivating it with `hardened_usercopy=off` in the kernel commandline seems to make no real difference for specific Itanium 2 CPUs, namely: * Madison (in rx4640 with zx1) * Montvale (in rx2660, rx3600 and rx6600 with zx2) ...wh

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-05-10 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 04.05.22 10:11, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 27.04.22 14:45, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: is it possible to fill a bug report at linux kernel bugzilla and post full stack trace with the description to: linux-ia64@vger.k.o cc: linux-kernel@vger.k.o , linux...@kvack.org and CC to the author of the

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-06-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Anton, On 05.06.22 20:00, Anton Borisov wrote: I've booted off with Gentoo (https://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/root/all/releases/ia64/autobuilds/20220601T030345Z/install-ia64-minimal-20220601T030345Z.iso). Default parameters, i.e. without hardmemcpy. Just for clarification: Is hardened memco

Re: rx2660 + debian

2022-06-06 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 06.06.22 17:45, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote: On 2022/Jun/06, at 03:44, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 05.06.22 20:00, Anton Borisov wrote: I've booted off with Gentoo (https://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/root/all/releases/ia64/autobuilds/20220601T030345Z/install-ia64-minimal-20220601T030345

Re: [crosspost] dropping support for ia64

2023-05-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear Ard, all, First of all, I demand nothing of other people in this regard, you included. Please notice there's no "but" attached. I think I have a little first-hand knowledge about how much effort is involved in keeping an interesting architecture from the past running, to the least since whe

Re: [crosspost] dropping support for ia64

2023-05-19 Thread Frank Scheiner
wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 20:39, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 12.05.23 17:57, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: The bottom line is that, while I know of at least 2 people (on cc) that test stuff on itanium, and package software for it, I don't think there are any actual users remaining, and so it is doub

Re: [crosspost] dropping support for ia64

2023-05-19 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear matoro, Florian, On 17.05.23 23:47, matoro wrote: On 2023-05-17 15:39, Florian Weimer wrote: * Frank Scheiner: On 12.05.23 17:57, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: The bottom line is that, while I know of at least 2 people (on cc) that test stuff on itanium, and package software for it, I don&#

Boot regression in Linux 6.1 gone for Montecito in 6.3

2023-05-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear all, I today noticed that a new Debian kernel is available from [1]. Thanks to whoever built that one - most likely Adrian. [1]: http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-ia64/main/l/linux/linux-image-6.3.0-0-mckinley_6.3.2-1~exp1_ia64.deb I currently have the rx2620 and the rx2800-i2

Re: [crosspost] dropping support for ia64

2023-05-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
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 sup

Re: [crosspost] dropping support for ia64

2023-05-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 20.05.23 20:44, Joshua Scoggins wrote: I believe they are Madison 6mb. I know they are not mad9's. The zx6000 I have is a rx2600 in the workstation plastic. I like the design of those, it looks similar to the C8000 but "compressed". :-) If you pop the panels off and remove the foot it is

Re: Boot regression in Linux 6.1 gone for Montecito in 6.3

2023-05-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 20.05.23 21:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Frank! On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 20:19 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: I today noticed that a new Debian kernel is available from [1]. Thanks to whoever built that one - most likely Adrian. The buildd built the kernel, not me

Re: Boot regression in Linux 6.1 gone for Montecito in 6.3

2023-05-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi, On 20.05.23 22:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 21:51 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 20.05.23 21:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Frank! On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 20:19 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: I today noticed that a new Debian kernel is

Re: Boot regression in Linux 6.1 gone for Montecito in 6.3

2023-05-22 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 20.05.23 22:24, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 20.05.23 22:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 21:51 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 20.05.23 21:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: You should cross-compile your kernel. I can build a kernel for my rx2660 on an

Re: Boot regression in Linux 6.1 gone for Montecito in 6.3

2023-05-25 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 22.05.23 11:15, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Mon, 2023-05-22 at 11:06 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: And it's definitely better to catch the regression before the release as this way you will get the fix landed for 6.4 instead of 6.5. I know I did that in the pas

Re: Boot regression in Linux 6.1 gone for Montecito in 6.3

2023-05-25 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Pedro, On 22.05.23 16:58, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote: On May 22, 2023, at 02:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: You can just download a complete cross-toolchain for ia64 from here: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ Just download the ia64 toolchain, extract it some

Re: Boot regression in Linux 6.1 gone for Montecito in 6.3

2023-05-25 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 25.05.23 19:22, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! On Thu, 2023-05-25 at 19:17 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: This is great! I am definitely going to try building my Itanium kernels from Arm64 now. Say, what Arm64 machine do you have at hand? My wild guess would be an M1/M2 Mac

Boot regression in Linux v6.4-rc3

2023-05-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear all, there is a boot regression in effect in Linux v6.4-rc3 that affects at least: * rx2620 (w/2 x Montecito and zx1) * rx2800-i2 (w/1 x Tukwila) ...(see second part of [1] and following posts for more details, [2] and [3] for the respective logs), example here: ``` ELILO v3.16 for EFI/IA

Re: Boot regression in Linux v6.4-rc3

2023-05-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Song, On 26.05.23 18:49, Song Liu wrote: Hi Frank, Thanks for the report. Sure, thanks for your help in this. It seems the error happened during the WARN_ON_ONCE. Could you please try whether something like the following fixes it? diff --git i/kernel/module/main.c w/kernel/module/main.c

Re: Boot regression in Linux v6.4-rc3

2023-05-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi, On 26.05.23 23:01, Song Liu wrote: Thanks for running the test. Thanks for staying with me. I am not very familiar with the code, but I think we shouldn't hit that WARN_ON_ONCE. Could you please try with the follow patch to see which section caused this issue? Thanks, Song diff --git i

Re: Boot regression in Linux v6.4-rc3

2023-05-27 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 27.05.23 00:22, Linus Torvalds wrote: [...] But this is my "monkey see, monkey do" pattern matching reaction, not from any deeper understanding of the problem (I can't even see the report) or really even the code. If it is of any help, my initial report is available for example via: https:/

Re: Boot regression in Linux v6.4-rc3

2023-05-27 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi, On 27.05.23 19:08, Linus Torvalds wrote: Anyway, the WARN_ON() is likely related, but the bug is clearly an unexpected page fault in __copy_user() when called by load_module(). The ia64 oops output is nasty, presumably because ia64 aggressively inlines things. It would help a lot if you ena

Re: Boot regression in Linux v6.4-rc3

2023-05-27 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi, On 27.05.23 21:34, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 11:41 AM Frank Scheiner wrote: Ok, I put the decoded console messages on [2]. [2]: https://pastebin.com/dLYMijfS Ugh. Apparently ia64 decoding isn't great. But at least it gives multiple line numbers: load_m

Re: Boot regression in Linux v6.4-rc3

2023-05-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Song, Linus, On 28.05.23 07:24, Song Liu wrote: AFAICT, .got should go to rodata, while .sdata and .sbss should go to (rw)data. However, reading the code before the module_memory change, I think they were all copied to (rw)data, which is not ideal but most likely OK. To match the behavior b

Re: Boot regression in Linux v6.4-rc3

2023-05-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi again, On 28.05.23 09:30, Frank Scheiner wrote: [...] Thanks, that patch (as -patch4 on top of v6.4-rc3) fixes the boot regression for me on the rx2620: [...] Great! I'll give it a try on my rx2800-i2, too, but assume it wil work there, too. Indeed, -patch4 also makes it work o

Re: [PATCH] module: fix module load for ia64

2023-05-30 Thread Frank Scheiner
le: replace module_layout with module_memory") Reported-by: Frank Scheiner Closes: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2023/05/msg00010.html Closes: https://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=168509859125505 Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Song Liu --- kernel/module/main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file cha

Re: Boot regression in Linux v6.4-rc3

2023-05-31 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Linus, hi Song, On 29.05.23 00:46, Song Liu wrote: [...] Thanks for running the test! I will send the official patch. Thanks, Song With the fix merged and to conclude this, I'd like to add that it was a pleasure to work with you on this problem, although I didn't do much. Looking forward

Re: Boot regression in Linux v6.4-rc3

2023-05-31 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 31.05.23 21:14, Luis Chamberlain wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 11:16 AM Frank Scheiner wrote: Looking forward to the next occasion - for your sake maybe on another architecture, but can't promise... ;-) I think it would be prudent for Song to also ask you to test his future upc

Re: [PATCH] module: fix module load for ia64

2023-06-03 Thread Frank Scheiner
le: replace module_layout with module_memory") Reported-by: Frank Scheiner Closes: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ia64/2023/05/msg00010.html Closes: https://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=168509859125505 Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Song Liu --- kernel/module/main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file cha

Re: Install problem

2023-07-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Mike, On 29.07.23 06:40, Mike Hosken wrote: Hi everyone, I have a rx2660 ia64 machine, I’m wanting to install Debian on and have run into some issues. The Debian 12 ia64 installation disk won’t boot. I get to grub and choose install, it starts to boot and then the system reboots. Choosing ex

Re: Install problem

2023-07-29 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Mike, On 29.07.23 10:01, Mike Hosken wrote: Hi Frank, Adrian and anyone else, I've tried everything you suggested and had no luck unfortunately. I removed the quiet from the boot options with your suggested changes and got this output. Not being a kernel person but with google I managed to

Re: Install problem

2023-07-29 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi again, just some other thing that came to my mind right now: Don't leave your rx2660 in standby with mains connected over longer times, because its PSUs will get quite hot otherwise and most likely age faster than normal if not burn up over time. The DL380 G5 and DL385 G2 and G5 (at least min

Re: Install problem

2023-08-01 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 01.08.23 08:41, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote: [...] Oh dear… did I just jinx it?! 68    BMC     *3  0x2064C614CB020520 016F41080300 POWER_SUPPLY_FAIL_OR_DISCONNECT                                                       30 Jul 2023 07:44:11 67    BMC     *3  0x2064C614CB020510 016F400

Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

2023-08-10 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Pedro, all, On 10.08.23 14:04, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote: Here it is: 06edd40db76bb78457ac26156ed5f7b62381bbe8 is the first bad commit commit 06edd40db76bb78457ac26156ed5f7b62381bbe8 Author: Oliver Steffen Date: Fri May 26 13:35:43 2023 +0200 guid: Unify GUID types There are 3

Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

2023-08-10 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Pedro, On 10.08.23 19:31, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Pedro, all, On 10.08.23 14:04, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote: Here it is: 06edd40db76bb78457ac26156ed5f7b62381bbe8 is the first bad commit commit 06edd40db76bb78457ac26156ed5f7b62381bbe8 Author: Oliver Steffen Date:   Fri May 26 13:35:43 2023

Re: Install problem

2023-08-11 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 07.08.23 00:39, Pedro Miguel Justo wrote: [...] I physically ejected the faulty PSU and the machine has been up for many days now. Well, now one PSU in my first rx2660 is playing dead, too. But the system doesn't yet refuse to start. I removed it anyhow and replaced it with one PSU from my D

Retiring ia64

2023-09-14 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi all, On 14.09.23 09:05, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Mathieu! On Thu, 2023-09-14 at 08:46 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Could someone please double check what I did at: * https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=highway&arch=ia64&ver=1.0.7-4&stamp=1694591500&raw=0 For some

Re: Retiring ia64

2023-09-14 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 14.09.23 10:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Frank! On Thu, 2023-09-14 at 10:42 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: I don't think that LTO really works on ia64. The toolchain has been bitrotting on this architecture for a while now and it's slated to be dropped from

Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

2023-09-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 06.08.23 10:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! The following important packages are broken on ia64: - grub (git master) does not boot on ia64, crashes when loading stage2 (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2023-07/msg00106.html) - kernel FTBFS with gcc-13 (

Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi again, On 15.09.23 13:47, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Adrian, On 06.08.23 10:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! The following important packages are broken on ia64: - grub (git master) does not boot on ia64, crashes when loading stage2 (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel

Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi again, On 18.09.23 11:43, Frank Scheiner wrote: The resulting kernel and modules aren't yet tested, though. I plan that for today and tomorrow. v6.6-rc2 with the acpi build fix (I used the patch from [1]) and the workaround for gcc-13 (see my prior email) and built with gcc 13.2.0 fr

Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 18.09.23 11:43, Frank Scheiner wrote: Richard Biener suggested `-fno-var-tracking` or `-g0` as workaround and both indeed workaround the problem (see [2]). I don't yet know how to limit the addition of `-fno-var-tracking` to KBUILD_CFLAGS to `net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c` [...] Ok, found w

Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 18.09.23 13:43, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 18.09.23 11:43, Frank Scheiner wrote: Richard Biener suggested `-fno-var-tracking` or `-g0` as workaround and both indeed workaround the problem (see [2]). I don't yet know how to limit the addition of `-fno-var-tracking` to KBUILD_CFLAGS to `net

Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 18.09.23 22:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Frank! On Mon, 2023-09-18 at 22:14 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: Worked for me, MR is here: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/852 Looking forward to new ia64 kernels for Sid. I don't think this pat

Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

2023-09-18 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 18.09.23 22:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Mon, 2023-09-18 at 22:36 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: I don't think this patch is acceptable in its current form as it modifies the Makefile globally so that the flag is passed on to the host compiler for all architectures. Yes, th

Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

2023-09-19 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 18.09.23 22:56, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 18.09.23 22:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Mon, 2023-09-18 at 22:36 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: I don't think this patch is acceptable in its current form as it modifies the Makefile globally so that the flag is passed on to the

Re: Important packages that are broken ia64

2023-09-19 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 19.09.23 20:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Tue, 2023-09-19 at 20:26 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: The MR ([1]) was updated and now uses `-fno-var-tracking` for the respective files only when the target architecture is ia64. This works like so for example: ``` ifeq ($(ARCH),ia64

Build regression since v6.6-rc1

2023-09-21 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear all, since v6.6-rc1 (actually introduced with [1], specific commit on [2]) the kernel build for ia64 fails like that: ``` Making kernel... time make -j24 LOCALVERSION="-0bb80ecc33a8fb5a682236443c1e740d5c917d1d-ia64" ARCH=ia64 CROSS_COMPILE=ia64-linux- all Mon Sep 11 06:24:43 PM CEST 2023 [.

Re: Build regression since v6.6-rc1

2023-09-21 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Ard, On 21.09.23 13:53, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: Hello Frank, On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 10:15, Frank Scheiner wrote: Dear all, since v6.6-rc1 (actually introduced with [1], specific commit on [2]) the kernel build for ia64 fails like that: ``` ... Could one ([5]) or the other ([6

Re: ia64 maintainership (resend)

2023-09-24 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear Tomas, On 24.09.23 19:20, Tomáš Glozar wrote: Hello linux-ia64, I noticed following the news of the proposal to remove ia64 from the kernel that the architecture has no maintainer. I'd be happy to volunteer to maintain the architecture, should the decision of removal be reversed. I'm not

Re: Willing to test IA64 builds of Debian and kernel with other distributions if needed

2023-09-27 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi all, On 27.09.23 19:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 17:14 +, thetas.college.work wrote: Someone wanted to be maintainer for the IA64 port of Linux kernel. Apologies for not using send all for last email. I saw that email but I'm afraid I'm not in the position

Re: Willing to test IA64 builds of Debian and kernel with other distributions if needed

2023-09-27 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear Adrian, On 27.09.23 19:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 19:25 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: While it's great that someone is willing to take care of the kernel port, we're still in the situation that the toolchain on ia64 is unmaintained and has m

Re: Willing to test IA64 builds of Debian and kernel with other distributions if needed

2023-09-27 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hello Adrian, On 27.09.23 21:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 21:15 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: Again for Linux, Linus had a different opinion back in February and also backed that with information provided by `git log [...]`: ``` [...] IOW, I'm more worried

Linux/ia64: Kernel testing effort

2023-10-04 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi there, as I usually only write to this list to report problems for ia64, I thought it might be a good idea to also report a success story here. Also in order to drive away any doubts about ia64 being a working architecture for Linux. This also goes CC to Debian's and Gentoo's respective ia64

Linux/ia64: An update

2023-10-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear all, consider this an update to [1]. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ia64/cb4faf4f-1efc-5ae7-c8f7-7aad9c2a4...@web.de/T/#u So about two weeks later and another two v6.6 release candidates (5 and 6) tested successfully on the following machines: * rx2620 (w/2 x Montecito) * rx4640 (w/2

Re: Linux 6.7

2024-01-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear all, an update for Linux/ia64: After finishing the verification tests with Linux v6.7 on all of my ia64 machines, I can confirm that this one is again a good one for ia64. I didn't detect any regressions or new problems for this version and it continues to run on the following machines: *

Re: Linux 6.7

2024-02-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 28.02.24 15:44, Camm Maguire wrote: Greetings and thanks for the update! So what is the Debian status with ia64, is it being retired or not? Checking http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ now... No, it's still there. And if not, what happened to yttrium? No idea, I'm not involved

Re: Linux 6.7

2024-02-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 28.02.24 16:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 09:44 -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: Greetings and thanks for the update! So what is the Debian status with ia64, is it being retired or not? And if not, what happened to yttrium? yttrium has been decommissioned, the rest

Re: Linux 6.8

2024-03-13 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear all, as usual, an update for Linux/ia64: As far as I can tell, the v6.8 development cycle for us looked not much different to the v6.7 one: The ia64 patch set ([1]) was extended where need was identified. All ia64 machines we have available for testing continue to work, no system support wa

Re: Linux 6.9

2024-05-15 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear all, here comes the usual update on Linux/ia64: The reason for the userland regression we mentioned last time (in [1]) was found and fixed shortly after the release of v6.8. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/145da253-b3bc-43da-a262-a3ebdfbea...@web.de/ Furthermore there were no new hard re

Re: Request to help test ia64 build for galera-4

2024-05-25 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 25.05.24 10:38, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Otto, On Fri, 2024-05-24 at 21:24 -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: I have a patch to tentatively fix Debian package galera-4 builds on ia64 at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/galera-4/-/merge_requests/19 Would anybody be int

Re: Request to help test ia64 build for galera-4

2024-05-25 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Otto, On 25.05.24 06:24, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: I have a patch to tentatively fix Debian package galera-4 builds on ia64 at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/galera-4/-/merge_requests/19 Would anybody be interested in helping out and testing if the build fully passes now? I could try t

Re: Request to help test ia64 build for galera-4

2024-05-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 26.05.24 10:58, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Sat, 2024-05-25 at 18:29 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: ia64 support has been removed from glibc, the Linux kernel and soon gcc, First - ia64 support was actually removed from the glibc **because** it was removed from Linux

Re: Request to help test ia64 build for galera-4

2024-05-26 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Otto, On 25.05.24 06:24, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: Hi! I have a patch to tentatively fix Debian package galera-4 builds on ia64 at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/galera-4/-/merge_requests/19 Would anybody be interested in helping out and testing if the build fully passes now? Details i

Re: Request to help test ia64 build for galera-4

2024-05-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 27.05.24 17:14, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Sun, 2024-05-26 at 14:09 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: It was also removed because there was no maintainer for it in glibc and suffered from a lot of testsuite failures. I tried for a long time to convince Adhemerval to fix these

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