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From: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:40:16 +0000
Subject: Re: Debian kernel and /proc/pal
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On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:17 +1000, Ian Wienand wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:36:54PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > I recently used an Itanium machine booted with a 2.6 Linux kernel.
> > The exact package is:
> >         kernel-image-2.6.11-1-mckinley-smp_2.6.11-6_ia64.deb
> > 
> > It does appear that this kernel is compiled without CONFIG_PALINFO
> > which means there is no /proc/pal/cpu* entries.
> 
> I filed this under
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug21885
> 
> for the latest 2.6.12 packages which have the same thing.
> 

Note that CONFIG_PALINFO was set to m - most things in Debian kernels
are set to build as a module, if possible.

I've made 2.6.12-2 link it statically.  However, it'd probably be good
to have user apps load this module, if needed.