Re: sparc machines at debcamp
On Mon, 2005-04-18 02:08:36 +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are looking to get some sparc machines sponsored for the debcamp for various development tasks. In order to have an idea which architectures people want to work on, we look for some projects or things people would be working on involving sparc. If you have a request for a certain subarch or have some idea involving sparc, please mail me. I will coordinate with Andreas as to what we can actually get hold of. I haven't switched on my sparc32 machines for quite some time, but I remember there were some TODOs: - Redo SILOs memory management to be able to load larger kernel binaries - Check if current testing/unstable works w/o h/w mul/div - Get 2.6.x to run SMP MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 _ O _ Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Brger | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA)); signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Fwd: Weird Mouse Behaviour with 2.6
OOop, sorry Tomas for the private message :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Francois Lucas Date: Apr 18, 2005 10:39 PM Subject: Re: Weird Mouse Behaviour with 2.6 To: Tomas Cernaj On 4/3/05, Tomas Cernaj wrote: Same problem here with my Ultra 5 and kernel 2.6.11.6: The mouse only works after I reconnect it Same problem here too with my quad 450Mhz Ultra80. I need to unplung and plug back the mouse to make it work under X with debian sid 2.6 kernel (2.6.8 I think). Dmesg ouput says that the kernel sees the keyboard and the mouse. -- F. -- F.
Re: Framebuffer console not restored correctly after X server abort
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:54:43 +0200 Francois Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The config is an quad Ultra 80 running sid with debian 2.6 SMP kernel and a creator3D. Unfortunately, if the sunffb closedown function isn't called the color key in the framebuffer pixels is not restored to what the kernel was using resulting in the behavior you see. This should only really happen if the Xserver takes an unrecoverrable fault from which it cannot call the sunffb shutdown routines. You'll need to debug the Xserver sources to try and fix this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun hardware questions...
Hello all, SunPCi PC co-processor card, in an Ultra 5 ? I don't know where to begin, and i don't even have one, but the idea sounds good :-) Is there some info docs anyhere on what and how this card can be put to work ? is it just for solaris, or can it be talked to/booted from the PROM? Also, i understand an ultra 5 has a PCi bus, does this mean one could plug-in a usb card (and get it to work with linux), amongst other things. tia, Zak. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun hardware questions...
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:04:30 + Zak Close [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it just for solaris, or can it be talked to/booted from the PROM? It is just for Solaris. The card is driven by the Solaris kernel. Userland tools communicate with the kernel driver for the PCi card to load up it's RAM with a sub-OS to run, provide a disk image from which to boot, things like that. The PCi card provides virtual dummy devices for the x86 processor environment running on that card. So there is a pseudo VGA device et al., just the most simplest things necessary to boot up a real system and run applications, nothing more. Since this has become a non-Sparc/Linux discussion, please take it to the appropriate forum. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sparc machines at debcamp
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-18 02:08:36 +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are looking to get some sparc machines sponsored for the debcamp for various development tasks. In order to have an idea which architectures people want to work on, we look for some projects or things people would be working on involving sparc. If you have a request for a certain subarch or have some idea involving sparc, please mail me. I will coordinate with Andreas as to what we can actually get hold of. I haven't switched on my sparc32 machines for quite some time, but I remember there were some TODOs: - Redo SILOs memory management to be able to load larger kernel binaries I do not know the status of that, but SILO definitely has its share of problems other than inability to load large kernels. It fails to boot the kernel on same machines, a representative bug is 261824 (boot failure on SunFire 280R). Andres Salomon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has made some debugging on it recently (see the bug trail), but no solution was proposed so far. - Check if current testing/unstable works w/o h/w mul/div You probably have in mind the restoration of the sun4c support. Currently glibc and some other libraries are built with v8 optimization, which uses hardware mul/div, not available on sun4c. If you will manage to get a sun4c machine for debcamp (such as Sparc IPX), someone can give a shot at building the essential libraries without this optimization and trying to boot it. I have built glibc and even a netboot image for it, but so far nobody managed to netboot a sun4c machine using it. More information: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/01/msg00152.html http://www.wooyd.org/debian/sun4c/ - Get 2.6.x to run SMP Ugh, AFAIK this is a tough one. Whoever is going to fiddle with that, might be interested in looking at this thread, where at least partial success was reported: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=11082812801r=1w=2 Other important sparc topics: * Kernel bug resulting in Remapping the kernel... FP Disabled, message, followed by returning to the PROM prompt. It seems like it can happen on variety of Ultra machines, most often - when booting the 2.4.x kernel from CD-ROM. If someone manages to reproduce it during debcamp, _any_ debugging information on it is welcome. * Failure of the current 2.6 netboot images to boot on sparc32. It can be a kernel bug or a SILO bug, or some combination thereof. During the boot the initrd image cannot be mounted and boot fails. Should be reproducible with any sparc32 hardware. Best regards, Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun hardware questions...
SunPCi PC co-processor card, in an Ultra 5 ? I don't know where to begin, and i don't even have one, but the idea sounds good :-) Is there some info docs anyhere on what and how this card can be put to work ? is it just for solaris, or can it be talked to/booted from the PROM? http://www.vdberg.org/~richard/Linux-on-SunPCi-mini-Howto/ might answer some questions. In short it's a separte machine and you need the Sun utility to kick it into life / do some things. Not sure if the app will run in the Solaris emulation mode that Linux/SPARC has, I'd guess not as it probably requires some sort of kernel support. Also, i understand an ultra 5 has a PCi bus, does this mean one could plug-in a usb card (and get it to work with linux), amongst other things. Yes. I have a printer running off this set up at the moment. Cheers, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seasons change, things come to pass
