From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Schwartz Subject: Re: xm-test thoughts Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 09:42:07 -0600 Message-ID: <463B544F.3090506@hp.com> References: <463A359C.6000209@hp.com> <20070504111043.GI15955@bakeyournoodle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070504111043.GI15955@bakeyournoodle.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Eric Schwartz , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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