Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752226AbaAXW7g (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:59:36 -0500 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:9109 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751281AbaAXW7e convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:59:34 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,715,1384329600"; d="scan'208";a="444297255" From: "Luck, Tony" To: Mikael Pettersson , Mikulas Patocka CC: "Yu, Fenghua" , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/5] ia64 ski emulator patches Thread-Topic: [PATCH 0/5] ia64 ski emulator patches Thread-Index: AQHPGKb+JFOSUiMwU0OkA9mJI3PIepqUaQaAgAAUOJA= Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:59:33 +0000 Message-ID: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F31DB8B73@ORSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <21218.28095.779306.523187@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <21218.28095.779306.523187@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.22.254.140] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mikulas: >> Here I'm sending some ia64 patches to make it work in the ski emulator. >> This has been broken for a long time. Thanks - There are questions from time to time on how to test ia64 for those people who do not have hardware. Mikael: > Thanks. I've recently started running 3.x kernels on ia64 via ski, > but I'm getting random kernel crashes with 3.13. I'll give your > patches a try shortly. Let me know how that goes - I haven't used ski in a decade and have quite forgotten how to set it up. > I've written a few patches to improve other aspects of running the > kernel on ski: > - kernel patch to turn PAL_HALT_LIGHT into a new SSC_HALT_LIGHT, > and a corresponing ski patch to pause() on SSC_HALT_LIGHT; this > together with the fixed-frequency ITC patch allows ski to idle > with very low host CPU overhead when the guest kernel idles > - kernel patch to bump the RAM size from 130MB to 2GB > > I'd be happy to share these patches if there's interest in them. It seems that there are at least two of you out there - so I'm happy to take kernel patches that make things better. Not sure where the ski patches go - is someone maintaining that? -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/