Not only don't the bssprot patches in Andrew's 2.6.6-rc2-mm2 not build,[snip]
they don't boot on SGI's SN2 ia64 with sn2_defconfig. If I remove these
4 bssprot patches, then 2.6.6-rc2-mm2 builds (with the easy build fixes
already understood earlier this week) and boots on SN2 ia64 with
sn2_defconfig.
But trying to boot the resulting kernel on an SGI SN2 system fails. The
boot successfully prints out:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 336kB freed
but freezes prior to displaying the next line expected:
INIT: version 2.85 booting
I have to reset instead at this point.
On this system the program /sbin/init is the following type:
/sbin/init: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, IA-64, version 1 (SYSV),
for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped