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Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package

Started byJason Duerstock <jason.duerstock@gmail.com>
First post2018-01-09 01:10 +0100
Last post2018-03-15 22:00 +0100
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  Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package Jason Duerstock <jason.duerstock@gmail.com> - 2018-01-09 01:10 +0100
    Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-01-17 02:30 +0100
      Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-03-15 22:00 +0100
    Processed: Re: Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the  linux kernel package "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-01-17 02:30 +0100
    Processed: Re: Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the  linux kernel package "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-03-15 22:00 +0100

#59914 — Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package

FromJason Duerstock <jason.duerstock@gmail.com>
Date2018-01-09 01:10 +0100
SubjectBug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package
Message-ID<v5PEl-4EC-5@gated-at.bofh.it>

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Source: linux
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

As you may be aware, the ia64 architecture has recently been added back to Debian, but now resides in Debian ports.
The attached patch should enable the linux package to build the ia64 kernel again.

Thanks for your time!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: ia64

Kernel: Linux 3.14-0.bpo.2-mckinley (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

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#60014

FromBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date2018-01-17 02:30 +0100
Message-ID<v8KI9-8mx-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
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Control: tag -1 moreinfo

On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 19:04 -0500, Jason Duerstock wrote:
> Source: linux
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> As you may be aware, the ia64 architecture has recently been added
> back to Debian, but now resides in Debian ports.
> The attached patch should enable the linux package to build the ia64
> kernel again.
> 
> Thanks for your time!

This appears to be almost exactly reverting the change I made to remove
ia64 support, which is not the right thing to do.

You need to actually review the changes that have happened in the 2.5
years since then and update the config accordingly.  In particular, the
following symbols no longer exist in Linux 4.15-rc8:

CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA
CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE
CONFIG_I2O
CONFIG_I2O_BLOCK
CONFIG_I2O_CONFIG
CONFIG_I2O_PROC
CONFIG_I2O_SCSI
CONFIG_MMTIMER
CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T

The commit message for the removal of CONFIG_MMTIMER upstream (commit
07903ada96139ced48f2f893fe57a26a8fbc6043) implies that SGI SN2 systems
are no longer supported, in which case presumably the sn-modules udeb
should also be removed.

Do Itanium systems typically have floppy drives?  If not, delete the
"suggests: fdutils" from debian/config/ia64/defines.

Shouldn't the "mckinley" configuration be renamed, since it's supposed
to support later processors as well?

Does it still make sense to build an "itanium" configuration, given how
few Merced systems exist?

Also, do you have any idea whether these bugs have been fixed upstream:

    https://bugs.debian.org/679545
    https://bugs.debian.org/691576
    https://bugs.debian.org/728706

If not, those should be reopened when ia64 is enabled again.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment
destroyed.
                                                    - Carolyn Scheppner

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#60478

FromBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date2018-03-15 22:00 +0100
Message-ID<vtI8F-7KM-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#60014

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Control: tag -1 - moreinfo
Control: tag -1 pending

I got fed up of seeing ia64 build failures so I've re-added ia64
configurations on the master branch.

On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 01:20 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> 
> On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 19:04 -0500, Jason Duerstock wrote:
> > Source: linux
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > As you may be aware, the ia64 architecture has recently been added
> > back to Debian, but now resides in Debian ports.
> > The attached patch should enable the linux package to build the ia64
> > kernel again.
> > 
> > Thanks for your time!
> 
> This appears to be almost exactly reverting the change I made to remove
> ia64 support, which is not the right thing to do.
> 
> You need to actually review the changes that have happened in the 2.5
> years since then and update the config accordingly.  In particular, the
> following symbols no longer exist in Linux 4.15-rc8:
> 
> CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
> CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA
> CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE
> CONFIG_I2O
> CONFIG_I2O_BLOCK
> CONFIG_I2O_CONFIG
> CONFIG_I2O_PROC
> CONFIG_I2O_SCSI
> CONFIG_MMTIMER
> CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T

I deleted all of these from the configuration.

> The commit message for the removal of CONFIG_MMTIMER upstream (commit
> 07903ada96139ced48f2f893fe57a26a8fbc6043) implies that SGI SN2 systems
> are no longer supported, in which case presumably the sn-modules udeb
> should also be removed.

I was confused about this; there evidently is still general support for
SN2 systems.

> Do Itanium systems typically have floppy drives?  If not, delete the
> "suggests: fdutils" from debian/config/ia64/defines.

I've done this.

> Shouldn't the "mckinley" configuration be renamed, since it's supposed
> to support later processors as well?
>
> Does it still make sense to build an "itanium" configuration, given how
> few Merced systems exist?

I've left the flavour names as they are but changed their descriptions.

> Also, do you have any idea whether these bugs have been fixed upstream:
> 
>     https://bugs.debian.org/679545

This seems to be unfixed (the patches weren't applied upstream).

>     https://bugs.debian.org/691576

This seems to have been a gcc bug that is now fixed.

>     https://bugs.debian.org/728706

Unknown.

> If not, those should be reopened when ia64 is enabled again.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got.

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#60015 — Processed: Re: Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package

From"Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org>
Date2018-01-17 02:30 +0100
SubjectProcessed: Re: Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package
Message-ID<v8KI9-8mx-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#59914
Processing control commands:

> tag -1 moreinfo
Bug #886693 [src:linux] linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package
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#60477 — Processed: Re: Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package

From"Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org>
Date2018-03-15 22:00 +0100
SubjectProcessed: Re: Bug#886693: linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package
Message-ID<vtI8F-7KM-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#59914
Processing control commands:

> tag -1 - moreinfo
Bug #886693 [src:linux] linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package
Removed tag(s) moreinfo.
> tag -1 pending
Bug #886693 [src:linux] linux: please reinstate ia64 for the linux kernel package
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886693: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886693
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