From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger-Tang Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 18:57:22 +0000 Subject: Re: problem in booting HP zx6000 with stock kernel 2.5.75 Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 17:00:12 +0100, "Deepak Kumar Gupta, Noida" said: Deepak> Hello everybody I am trying to boot 2 CPU hp zx6000 machine Deepak> (ia64, itanium2) from STOCK kernel version 2.5.75. I have Deepak> followed following steps. 2.5.75? Why such an old kernel? Deepak> Kindly provide me appropriate guidance.. , where am I wrong? For a zx6000, you're better off configuring it as ZX1 system, rather than GENERIC. The latter should also work, but will be (slightly) less efficient (and the kernel will be needlessly bigger). Deepak> I have following doubts: - Deepak> 1. Is it possible to build and run _stock_ kernel (not Deepak> redhat patched kernel, as redhat advanced distribution is Deepak> available on my machine) on hp zx6000 machine ? Yes, but you do need something newer than 2.5.75. Try 2.6.0-test9. Deepak> Do I need additional patches the stock kernel + ia64 patch ? No patch is needed. There still is a patch, but if you don't care about the last drop of performance and/or early printk-support, you don't need it. BTW: The daily build-status of Linus' kernel tree can be found here: http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/kerncomp/ You can also get know-to-be-good .config files from there. Also, in the future you may want to use linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org for such question, since that mailing list is focused on ia64. --david