{"id":2200,"date":"2018-01-22T18:43:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T02:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2018-01-22T18:43:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T02:43:58","slug":"ia64-the-gentoo-saga-kernel-4-15-rc9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2200","title":{"rendered":"IA64 – The Gentoo saga.. Kernel 4.15-rc9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

..................<\/strong><\/span>\r\n[ OK ] Reached target Multi-User System.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n [ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n This is rgia64.unknown_domain (Linux ia64 4.15.0-rc9) 19:42:44<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nroot@rgia64 ~ # uname -a<\/strong><\/span>\r\n Linux rgia64 4.15.0-rc9 #1 SMP Sun Jan 21 18:34:32 PST 2018 ia64 Madison GenuineIntel GNU\/Linux\r\n<\/strong><\/span>root@rgia64 ~ # cat \/proc\/cpuinfo processor : 0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n vendor : GenuineIntel<\/strong><\/span>\r\n arch : IA-64<\/strong><\/span>\r\n family : 31<\/strong><\/span>\r\n model : 1<\/strong><\/span>\r\n model name : Madison<\/strong><\/span>\r\n revision : 5<\/strong><\/span>\r\n archrev : 0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n features : branchlong<\/strong><\/span>\r\n cpu number : 0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n cpu regs : 4<\/strong><\/span>\r\n cpu MHz : 1500.000<\/strong><\/span>\r\n itc MHz : 1500.000000<\/strong><\/span>\r\n BogoMIPS : 2246.65<\/strong><\/span>\r\n siblings : 1<\/strong><\/span>\r\n physical id: 0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nprocessor : 1<\/strong><\/span>\r\n vendor : GenuineIntel<\/strong><\/span>\r\n arch : IA-64<\/strong><\/span>\r\n family : 31<\/strong><\/span>\r\n model : 1<\/strong><\/span>\r\n model name : Madison<\/strong><\/span>\r\n revision : 5<\/strong><\/span>\r\n archrev : 0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n features : branchlong<\/strong><\/span>\r\n cpu number : 0<\/strong><\/span>\r\n cpu regs : 4<\/strong><\/span>\r\n cpu MHz : 1500.000<\/strong><\/span>\r\n itc MHz : 1500.000000<\/strong><\/span>\r\n BogoMIPS : 2246.65<\/strong><\/span>\r\n siblings : 1<\/strong><\/span>\r\n physical id: 3<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n
I have had problems with some web-related software, and some of this is explicitly<\/span> prevented from compiling:
\nQtWebEngine can only be built for x86, x86-64, ARM, Aarch64, and MIPSel architectures.<\/span>
\nQtWebEngine will not be built.<\/span><\/code><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Firefox and Konqueror failed to compile, with ‘inlining<\/em>‘ errors, and I have been unable to find a workaround, despite changing compiler parameters etc,..<\/p>\n
I did (eventually) get the Midori<\/strong> browser to compile, but this would only display sites if java\/javascript was disabled<\/span>..<\/p>\n
The Gentoo java is no longer available, but I was able to get a reasonably recent IA64 version from the Sun\/Oracle site..
\nroot@rgia64 ~ # java -version<\/strong><\/span>
\njava version \"1.6.0_45\"<\/strong><\/span>
\nJava(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_45-b0602)<\/strong><\/span>
\nJava HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0-b17, mixed mode)<\/strong><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n
At least the actual Kernel still compiles OK, but I found that the Gentoo instructions for EFI were a bit odd, and so kept the Fedora setup..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After # make install<\/strong><\/span><\/code>, I have to copy the kernel vmlinuz…<\/strong>\u00a0 image to \/boot\/EFI\/EFI\/redhat<\/span><\/strong><\/code>,and create the initrd<\/strong> there manually, but this works OK..<\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 January 22, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1805,11,1750,1323,1751,14,15,19],"tags":[1807,1806,192,1753,1754,206,1173,242,1756],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-hacks","category-ia64","category-intel","category-itanium","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-opinion","tag-efi-workaround","tag-gentoo","tag-hp","tag-ia64","tag-itanium","tag-java","tag-kernel","tag-linux","tag-rx2600"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2203,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/2203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}