Re: Debian installer

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 <[email protected]>
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
>
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