Re: xm-test thoughts

[Eric Schwartz <eric.schwartz@hp.com>]

Tony Breeds wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:18:52PM -0600, Eric Schwartz wrote:
>   
>> I have created (by hand; the normal build process does not work on ia64) 
>> a ramdisk for use with xm-test on ia64.  What's the best way to get this 
>> included on http://xm-test.xensource.com/ramdisks/ so that others might 
>> be able to use it?  It will require the arbitrary ramdisk size patch I 
>> previously posted, as it's 8MB, but other than that, I've been able to 
>> run xm-test successfully with it.
>>     
>
> Asside from this patch, Where and how does the build system fail for
> ia64?  It wasn't too hard to bolt in powerpc support.  I thought I but
> all the arch hooks in place to allow it to work most places.
>   
uClibc is pretty badly broken for ia64; there's no ldso support, though 
a co-worker, Al Stone, has been trying to patch that in. buildroot 
requires uClibc (in fact, I read someone describe buildroot as a testbed 
for uClibc), so that's a pretty fundamental failure.

-=ERic