[gentoo-dev] Beginning of official Gentoo Itanium 2 porting effort

[gentoo-dev] Beginning of official Gentoo Itanium 2 porting effort

[Daniel Robbins]

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Hi Everyone,

HP has generously given us a very nice dual-CPU Itanium 2 system with
10GB of RAM on extended loan to allow us to port Gentoo Linux to it. I
currently have it set up on my LAN and can give out access to
experienced Gentoo developers and possibly some non-developers who might
have already begun work on porting Gentoo to IA64.

There are several people on the Gentoo dev team who are very motivated
to get our IA64 rock-solid as soon as we possibly can, so I'd expect our
progress on IA64 to move along very very quickly. If you have the time
and experience to help in some capacity, please email Seemant Kulleen at
seemant@gentoo.org and cc me (drobbins@gentoo.org) and tell us how you
can help.

The machine is currently running Debian. Porting plan is:

1) port Portage to Debian/IA64
2) use Portage to build an IA64 stage1 in a chroot
3) use Portage to build an IA64 stage3 in a chroot
4) get it to boot
5) convert system over to native Gentoo operation
6) expand support for IA64 throughout the Portage tree
7) release

Best Regards,

Daniel

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Beginning of official Gentoo Itanium 2 porting effort

[Jon Portnoy]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:35:03PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> HP has generously given us a very nice dual-CPU Itanium 2 system with
> 10GB of RAM on extended loan to allow us to port Gentoo Linux to it. I
> currently have it set up on my LAN and can give out access to
> experienced Gentoo developers and possibly some non-developers who might
> have already begun work on porting Gentoo to IA64.

Steven Plite (splite-gentoo@sigint.cs.purdue.edu) has done quite a bit 
of work in this area - he's currently in the new dev pipeline.

> 
> There are several people on the Gentoo dev team who are very motivated
> to get our IA64 rock-solid as soon as we possibly can, so I'd expect our
> progress on IA64 to move along very very quickly. If you have the time
> and experience to help in some capacity, please email Seemant Kulleen at
> seemant@gentoo.org and cc me (drobbins@gentoo.org) and tell us how you
> can help.
> 
> The machine is currently running Debian. Porting plan is:
> 
> 1) port Portage to Debian/IA64
> 2) use Portage to build an IA64 stage1 in a chroot
> 3) use Portage to build an IA64 stage3 in a chroot
> 4) get it to boot
> 5) convert system over to native Gentoo operation
> 6) expand support for IA64 throughout the Portage tree
> 7) release
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Daniel

Steven Plite mailed me today and said he'd put a working stage1 up on a 
FTP tonight - hopefully he can drop us a mail about it soon.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Beginning of official Gentoo Itanium 2 porting effort

[splite-gentoo]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 05:54:54PM -0400, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:35:03PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > HP has generously given us a very nice dual-CPU Itanium 2 system with
> > 10GB of RAM on extended loan to allow us to port Gentoo Linux to it. I
> > currently have it set up on my LAN and can give out access to
> > experienced Gentoo developers and possibly some non-developers who might
> > have already begun work on porting Gentoo to IA64.
> 
> Steven Plite (splite-gentoo@sigint.cs.purdue.edu) has done quite a bit 
> of work in this area - he's currently in the new dev pipeline.

It wasn't easy getting in either.  I usually take a size 36.

> > There are several people on the Gentoo dev team who are very motivated
> > to get our IA64 rock-solid as soon as we possibly can, so I'd expect our
> > progress on IA64 to move along very very quickly. If you have the time
> > and experience to help in some capacity, please email Seemant Kulleen at
> > seemant@gentoo.org and cc me (drobbins@gentoo.org) and tell us how you
> > can help.
> > 
> > The machine is currently running Debian. Porting plan is:
> > 
> > 1) port Portage to Debian/IA64
> > 2) use Portage to build an IA64 stage1 in a chroot
> > 3) use Portage to build an IA64 stage3 in a chroot
> > 4) get it to boot
> > 5) convert system over to native Gentoo operation

Did all that.  Was pretty straightforward, even for a Gentoo noob like me.

> > 6) expand support for IA64 throughout the Portage tree

I made enough IA64 ebuilds to have a usable headless system, which was
all my users needed.  Sometime I'll hook up a head and see if X works.

> > 7) release

Don't forget:

8) ...
9) profit!

> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > 
> > Daniel
> 
> Steven Plite mailed me today and said he'd put a working stage1 up on a 
> FTP tonight - hopefully he can drop us a mail about it soon.

My annual late-summer head cold is slowing me down, but the tarball's
finally up:

ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/splite/stage1-ia64-1.4-20030912.tar.bz2

I made a cut-down portage tree with enough ebuilds to satisfy bootstrap.sh,
along with an ia64 profile and a one-line patch to eutils.eclass.  (Just grep
for "ia64" to see the changes.)  Instead of running "emerge sync" in the
stage1 tree, just extract this tarball under usr/portage:

ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/splite/usrportage-ia64-20030912.tar.bz2

Now you too can do a stage2.  At least, it works for me in a chroot on a
Gentoo/IA64 system.  I no longer have a Debian/IA64 system to test it on,
but I can't see why it wouldn't work.

Next I'll work on updating my IA64 ebuilds to match the latest stable x86
versions; my local tree has gotten a bit stale.  Also need to make an elilo
ebuild, which is the only non-emerged bit I still have.

Does anyone have experience making bootable IA64 CDs?  That EFI stuff creeps
me out.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Beginning of official Gentoo Itanium 2 porting effort

[Daniel Robbins]

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On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 09:22, splite-gentoo@sigint.cs.purdue.edu wrote:
> > Steven Plite (splite-gentoo@sigint.cs.purdue.edu) has done quite a bit 
> > of work in this area - he's currently in the new dev pipeline.
> 
> It wasn't easy getting in either.  I usually take a size 36.

Great work on the ia64 port. I'll grab your stuff and get it up and
running on our ia64 box. Email me privately and I'll get an account set
up for you.

Best Regards,

Daniel

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