On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 8:48 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Iggi! > > On Fri, 2023-11-10 at 18:56 +0000, Ignacio Soriano Hernandez wrote: > > so installed it with the latest image you had posted. It boots into the > > login but USB is not supported, so only terminal. > > Can you post the output of "lsusb" and "lspci" so I can see what kind of > USB controller your machine has? Maybe it's just disabled in the Debian > kernel configuration. > > > What I was feeling is that even 5.16 is very unstable .. a simple apt > > install openssh-server crashed the machine. > > Kernel after 4.19 were actually not very stable on older SPARCs like yours > while there were no problems on the newer SPARCs like T2, T3, T4 and so on. > > Bisecting these kernel issues on my Ultra 45 is still on my TODO list. > > If you want to have a stable kernel, use this image from July 2019 and make > sure you always boot the machine into kernel 4.19 from GRUB: > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2019-07-16/ > > > Btw. What is the recommended way of updating the keyring so that I could > > install some further packages and a desktop? What it be possible to exit > > to the shell within the installer to update the keyring so that it could > > use the mirror to get the packages? > > You can download and install the keyring package like this: > > # wget > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-keyring_2023.02.01_all.deb > # dpkg -i debian-ports-archive-keyring_2023.02.01_all.deb > > > Thanks a lot for your support. > > You're welcome and sorry for the current issues you're seeing. > > I haven't had time to work on Debian's sparc64 port for a while and only > recently had the time to setup the two new SPARC T4-1 that we purchased > for Debian. > > These machines are running now and I am currently going through all kind > of packages which have regressed on sparc64 and I'm filing bug reports and > sending patches upstream. > > Also, I am going to updated debian-installer images soon so you can test > a more recent kernel. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer > `. `' Physicist > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
Hello All, just for reference, i was experiencing the same usb problem on my Ultra 25 as mentioned here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2022/12/msg00000.html So for newer kernels than 5.6.0 usb is dying during boot rendering mouse and keyboard unusable on the machine. Regards, Connor