Re: [Linux-ia64] anyone maintaining lkcd for ia64?

Jack Steiner
2002-02-07T20:00:52Z

Hi piet

Does the lkcd that you are working on support both SGI SN systems
and DIG systems.

The main difference is the patch that is required on SGI systems to
support discontiguous memory.

Also, we use XSCSI for disk access. Is that an issue??

Are you working on a pure IA64 patch
>
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:51:26AM -0600, Robert K Gjertsen wrote:
>
> Hi Rob:
>
> I'm about 90% done on getting a preliminary version of lkcd working
> for ia64. I hope to update the workspace shortly. I have to clean up
> some of the changes I made to support the dump page size being smaller
> that the virtual memory default page size.
>
> I hope to work out a put today with the EFI memory reading by lcrash,
> how about I send you a copy tomarrow with some of the code cleaned up and
> I'll check it in after I've made sure I haven't brooken ia32.
>
> -piet
>
> > I've used kdb in the past for ia64, but was
> > taking a look at getting lkcd working on RH 7.2
> > (2.4.9-18/21) for ia64.
> > I grabbed the latest stuff from sourceforge.net
> > and I'm working through the patched build now
> > and see that dump_base.c is ia64 unfriendly
> > with its use of irq_stat (using a hacked patch
> > originally from lkcd-2.4.15-1.diff).
> > I'm slogging through this, but I hate to reinvent
> > the wheel if someone else has a working
> > copy/patch (newer kernel version is fine).
> > Anyone actually using this for newer kernels
> > on ia64 (and has SGI totally dumped working
> > on this)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --Rob
> >
> >
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Thanks

Jack Steiner (651-683-5302) (vnet 233-5302) steiner@sgi.com