Re: [PATCH] ia64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Thu May 14 2020 - 05:57:37 EST


On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:58:01AM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2020-05-14 09:46:06 [+0200], Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > As for getting a working cross-compiler for ia64 in Debian, this has
> > > been on my TODO list for a while now. Building a cross-compiler for
> > > ia64 is a bit more tricky due to it's dependency on the external
> > > libunwind.
> >
> > I hit that roadblock as well but yeah, a cross-compiler would be
> > helpful.
>
> There is
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/
>
> and I used the ia64 compiler from there while compile testing patches
> for ia64.

Excellent, I've got it to compile on my system now. Let's see if it
succeeds!
Just a way to boot it afterwards would be great.

Christian