Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262760AbTKIS52 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2003 13:57:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262761AbTKIS52 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2003 13:57:28 -0500 Received: from adsl-66-127-195-58.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([66.127.195.58]:40423 "EHLO panda.mostang.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262760AbTKIS5Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2003 13:57:25 -0500 To: "Deepak Kumar Gupta, Noida" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: problem in booting HP zx6000 with stock kernel 2.5.75 References: From: David Mosberger-Tang Date: 09 Nov 2003 10:57:22 -0800 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1668 Lines: 36 >>>>> 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 - 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/