From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:15:43 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] 2.5.50+ patch for the impatient... Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 00:13:59 -0800, David Mosberger wrote: >For those of you who're impatiently waiting for a 2.5.xx update, I put >a preliminary patch at: > > ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/patch-2.5.50-1.968-lia64.diff.gz > >The patch is relative to revision 1.968 of Linus' bitkeeper tree >(which is 2.5.50 with a bunch of additional patches). Only the Ski >simulator has been tested. Kernel modules are definitely broken at >the moment, since the ia64-part of the in-kernel module-loader is >missing (I don't use modules myself and in any case it may be better >to wait until things have settled down a bit; it looks like Rich >Henderson has convinced Rusty to make modules effectively shared >objects). kdb for 2.5 kernels is also completely broken. It needs the section data in kallsyms and Rusty has deleted that information. See http://www.kerneltrap.org/node.php?idP0. Do not expect kdb for any 2.5 kernel until Rusty puts the debugging data back. And BTW, do not expect ksymoops to work either.