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IA64 – Kernel 4.18-rc2 Boots on HP Itanium2

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on June 30, 2018 by RGJune 30, 2018

Updated the HP Itanium 2 system to Kernel 4.18-rc2, and all appears to be OK..: ……………………….. [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.18.0-rc2 (root@rgia64) (gcc version 6.4.0 (Gentoo 6.4.0 p1.1)) #1 SMP Sat Jun 30 16:13:38 PDT 2018 [ 0.000000] EFI v1.10 by HP: [ 0.000000] efi: SALsystab=0x3fb38000 ACPI 2.0=0x3fb2e000 SMBIOS=0x3fb3a000 HCDP=0x3fb2c000 [ 0.000000] PCDP: v0 at 0x3fb2c000 [ … Continue reading →

Posted in IA64, Itanium, kernel, Linux, Performance | Tagged boot, ia64, itanium2, kernel 4.18-rc2, success | 2 Replies

IA64 – Updated to 4.17-rc1..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on April 16, 2018 by RGApril 16, 2018

Updated the IA64 system (HP RX2600) to 4.17-rc1, and the compile and install/boot was without incident..    The python-related warning with 4.16 was no longer present.. (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2222 ). …………… [ OK ] Started Getty on tty1. [ OK ] Reached target Login Prompts. [ OK ] Started Login Service. [ OK ] Reached target Multi-User System. [ … Continue reading →

Posted in Gentoo, IA64, Itanium, kernel, Linux | Tagged boot success, conpile ok, hp rx2600, ia64, itanium, kernel 4.17-rc1, linux | Leave a reply

IA64 – Updated to 4.16-rc3..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on February 26, 2018 by RGFebruary 26, 2018

Just updated the HP RX2600 to Kernel 4.16-rc3, and apart from an odd quirk at compile time, all went OK.. ………….. Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 98 modules GZIP arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/vmlinux.gz File “./arch/ia64/scripts/unwcheck.py”, line 19 print “Usage: %s FILE” % sys.argv[0] ^ SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to ‘print’ make: [arch/ia64/Makefile:78: unwcheck] Error 1 (ignored) ……………… Despite this, … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, IA64, Itanium, kernel, Linux | Tagged boots ok, compile quirk, hp rx2600, ia64, kernel 4.16-rc3 | 2 Replies

IA64 – The Gentoo saga.. Kernel 4.15-rc9

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on January 22, 2018 by RGJanuary 22, 2018

After a lot of patience(!) I now have a much-hacked version of Gentoo running on the HP RX2600, and have just updated the kernel to 4.15-rc9: ……………… [ OK ] Reached target Multi-User System. [ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface. This is rgia64.unknown_domain (Linux ia64 4.15.0-rc9) 19:42:44 root@rgia64 ~ # uname -a Linux rgia64 4.15.0-rc9 #1 … Continue reading →

Posted in Gentoo, Hacks, IA64, Intel, Itanium, kernel, Linux, Opinion | Tagged efi workaround, gentoo, hp, ia64, itanium, java, kernel, linux, rx2600 | Leave a reply

IA64 – Update to Kernel 4.15-rc1..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 1, 2017 by RGDecember 1, 2017

Just updated the Itanium2 system (RX2600/ZX9000 hybrid) to kernel 4.15-rc1, but encountered a problem with the NFSv4 code.    Recent changes have exposed problems with ‘older’ compilers, and the system currently has GCC 4.3 (on Fedora 9/IA64): ………………….. CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh <stdin>:1185:2: warning: #warning syscall perf_event_open not implemented <stdin>:1239:2: warning: #warning syscall seccomp not implemented <stdin>:1317:2: warning: #warning syscall … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, fix, IA64, Itanium, kernel, Linux | Tagged gcc 4.3, ia64, itanium2, kernel, kernel 4.15-rc1, kernel code compile issue, linux, workaround | Leave a reply

IA64 – An Exercise in Nostalgia..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on November 21, 2017 by RGNovember 21, 2017

Ever since I spent some considerable time promoting HP’s IA64 Linux systems, way back in the early-2000’s, I have always wanted one for myself, and I recently managed to acquire an RX2600 1U server for a very reasonable price, and beef it up with some inexpensive parts from eBay.. The spec – at the moment – is … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, Hacks, hardware, IA64, Intel, Itanium, kernel, Linux, Opinion, quirks, RX2600 | Tagged boot, fedora, hp, ia64, itanium, kernel 4.14.1, rx2600, success, webmin | 4 Replies
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