RE: [PATCH 0/5] ia64 ski emulator patches

[Luck, Tony]

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
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