Re: [Linux-ia64] 2.5.50+ patch for the impatient...

Keith Owens
2002-12-06T14:15:43Z

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 00:13:59 -0800,
David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> 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.