Re: Sparc release requalification
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:43:35PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: the sid kernels are not booting on my machine (SunBlade 1000), and I have an independent confirmation from someone with a similar machine that they are experiencing similar problems - I'm going to file a bug for that if the situation does not improve with the next kernel upload. What seems to be the problem? FWIW the prtconfs.git repo has two SB1000 entries one of which is davem's, so we should have upstream support for this at least. Regarding the sparc kernel, it has recently seen a significant amount of work esp. on 32-bit support, and in fact a new 32-bit subarch Leon was just added, so we may actually be in a better situation than in lenny on that front. The outlook certainly seems to be less gloomy than before. (on a somewhat brighter note, Stephen Gran has reported an almost successful install on T2K recently [0]) (Is that the newly donated machine that we had been talking about a while ago?) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Sparc release requalification
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:23:27PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:43:35PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: the sid kernels are not booting on my machine (SunBlade 1000), and I have an independent confirmation from someone with a similar machine that they are experiencing similar problems - I'm going to file a bug for that if the situation does not improve with the next kernel upload. What seems to be the problem? FWIW the prtconfs.git repo has two SB1000 entries one of which is davem's, so we should have upstream support for this at least. After the message mentioning the console handoff from earlyprom to a real console it proceeds to clear the screen, however after a couple of lines it hangs. Regarding the sparc kernel, it has recently seen a significant amount of work esp. on 32-bit support, and in fact a new 32-bit subarch Leon was just added, so we may actually be in a better situation than in lenny on that front. The outlook certainly seems to be less gloomy than before. (on a somewhat brighter note, Stephen Gran has reported an almost successful install on T2K recently [0]) (Is that the newly donated machine that we had been talking about a while ago?) No idea about that. Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Sparc release requalification
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:30:29PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote:
the sid kernels are not booting on my machine (SunBlade 1000), and I have
an independent confirmation from someone with a similar machine that they
are experiencing similar problems - I'm going to file a bug for that if
the situation does not improve with the next kernel upload.
What seems to be the problem? FWIW the prtconfs.git repo has two SB1000
entries one of which is davem's, so we should have upstream support for
this at least.
After the message mentioning the console handoff from earlyprom to a real
console it proceeds to clear the screen, however after a couple of lines
it hangs.
Did you try to avoid the handoff? That patch davem keeps telling people to
try when something like this happens:
--- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ unsigned long cmdline_memory_size = 0;
static struct console prom_early_console = {
.name = earlyprom,
.write =prom_console_write,
- .flags =CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_BOOT | CON_ANYTIME,
+ .flags =CON_PRINTBUFFER | CON_ANYTIME,
.index =-1,
};
--
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Re: Sparc release requalification
Josip, am Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:23:27PM +0200 hast du folgendes geschrieben: (on a somewhat brighter note, Stephen Gran has reported an almost successful install on T2K recently [0]) (Is that the newly donated machine that we had been talking about a while ago?) donated to Debian years ago, only DSA'ed very, very recently. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp KernDebian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:p...@0x539.de Wanna-Build Admin `-finger pkern/k...@db.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
