Re: Status
On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 11:12:50AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > The document you linked is over 6 years old! sparc64 emulation is pretty > usable already, I have installed the sparc64 netinst images that I built > without any problems. Ah, I missed the date at the bottom of the page and didn't realise that! I'm not sure that installing newer version of Solaris works yet though (at least according to this[1] 2015 thread from Stack Exchange). Still, possibly worth a try though. [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199827/booting-solaris-10-or-11-for-sparc-in-qemu-system-sparc64 Cheers, MJ -- Michael-John Turner * m...@mjturner.net * http://mjturner.net/
Re: Status
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 10:38:25AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/04/2016 05:04 AM, Jerome Ibanes wrote: > > * Does Debian/sparc64 offer any binary compatibility layer for solaris > > 10/sparc64 binaries? > > No, unfortunately not. You would have to resort to kvm to install > an instance of Solaris in a kernel-based virtual machine. I believe that will only work on x86 systems - KVM isn't supported on SPARC. QEMU has some early emulation support for 64-bit SPARC hardware but it's not really usable yet[1]. If the OP has a newer system, a possible option would be to install Solaris in an LDOM and use that. [1] http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html#QEMU-System-emulator-for-non-PC-targets Cheers, MJ -- Michael-John Turner * m...@mjturner.net * http://mjturner.net/
Re: Debian GNU/(k)NetBSD and sparc32 hardware?
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:55:23AM +0200, BERTRAND Jo?l wrote: I've never said that NetBSD does not boot, but that NetBSD is not stable enough to be in production state. In SMP configuration (SS or HS), I've never seen any stable NetBSD kernel (since 3.0) on sparc32. It randomly panics or hangs on all my sparc32/SMP. NetBSD 4.0 kernel has a broken SX fb support, and maybe my tests are not significative. To be honest, I've had nothing but good luck with NetBSD on 32-bit SPARC hardware. I currently have a pair of SMP systems, each with a pair of SM61s and they're rock solid with NetBSD 3.1. There are some known issues (particularly with SM50s in SMP configurations), but those are being worked on as we speak. There are active NetBSD/sparc developers (eg Michael Lorenz), so if there are specific configurations that don't work, perhaps lend them the necessary hardware and get the issues resolved. But this is getting off-topic for debian-sparc... -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://mjturner.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fujitsu PrimePower 250
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:09:02PM +0200, Nizar TLILI wrote: I need now to know how to get in touch with Debian (or Linux Kernel) developers to know what modules are to be modified. A good starting point may be the sparclinux list - take a look at http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#sparclinux. Not sure if it's the best place to discuss SPARC kernel hacking, but it looks to be a good start. -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://mjturner.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fujitsu PrimePower 250
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:22:57AM +0100, Nizar TLILI wrote: I have downloaded and tried to install debian I have a kernel error at booting from cdrom is there any way to install debian or any other distro (even a minimal kernel recompiled) That is to be expected - the Linux kernel lacks support for the SPARC64 family. are the differences between the Fujitsu's processor and Sun's ones as enormous than that? Not enormous from my understanding (SPARC64 implements the SPARCv9 specification after all), but there are some fundamental differences. I could read some docs if available and contribute to porting the kernel (I am a computer science specialist and I work with a research center in nuclear physics, this station is for calculus and simulations and finally I hate proprietary software). If you don't mind hacking on it, you may want to try and get the manuals for the SPARC64 processor and see what needs to be done. Take a look at http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/computing/server/unix/documents/ for some useful starting documents. -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://mjturner.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fujitsu PrimePower 250
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:57:31AM -0700, Nizar TLILI wrote: Is there anyone who knows if Debian fits on the Fujitsu-made Sparc V9 processors? and for the rest of the hadrware? Sadly, AFAIK no open source OS yet supports the Fujitsu SPARC64 processor family (which is different from Sun's 64-bit SPARCv9 processor family). You're limited to running Solaris on such machines. -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://mjturner.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unofficial CD featuring SILO 1.4.11 available
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:09:32PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: I know you asked me to try this out a long time ago but I finally got around to actually doing it. :) Here's a boot attempt using OpenBSD: Hmm... Is this not due to OpenBSD not support US-III CPUs? I think FreeBSD is the only *BSD with (rudimentary) support for the US-III. NetBSD and OpenBSD only support US-I and US-II. -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://weblogs.turner.org.za/mj/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ultra 10 max HDD capacity?
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 06:18:16AM -0800, Bruce Harrison wrote: Is this the same for an Ultra 5 Sparcstation? It should be - the Ultra 5 and 10 share the same motherboard (and hence have the same CMD IDE controller). Also, any experience with a 5400 RPM drive vs. 7200 drive in the same unit? My 9 GB is getting a little tight, but all I have on my parts shelf is a 40 GB 5400 drive. I know a 7200 RPM drive is the better choice, but before I spend the time installing the 5400 RPM drive I though I'd check here for any experiences. You shouldn't have any problem with the 40GiB drive - the RPM won't affect the compatibility. -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://weblogs.turner.org.za/mj/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External SCSI disks with SS20
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:59:47PM +0200, Hartwig Atrops wrote: Regarding Solaris: In my opinion the default boot disk for Solaris is SCSI ID 3. I could not check today, as far as I remember I can plug an additional SCSI disk with ID 0 to a Solaris machine (Ultra 2) without problems. With Linux, this doesn't work. You're actually referring to two separate issues. By default, OpenBoot boots from SCSI ID 3 (you can change this quite easily). Unlike Linux (unless you use something like udev), Solaris refers to SCSI disks by their location on the bus, eg c0t0d0s1 for controller 0, target 0, disk 0, slice 1. By default, the Linux kernel names SCSI disks sda, sdb, etc based on the order it finds them (typically in the order of their SCSI IDs). In the case where you add another disk with a lower SCSI ID than your existing disk(s), the existing disk(s) will all shift down (sda will becoming sdb, etc). If you use udev to manage your devices, Linux will do something similar to Solaris. Hope that makes sense :) -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://weblogs.turner.org.za/mj/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External SCSI disks with SS20
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:03:52PM +0200, Hartwig Atrops wrote: What is going wrong? Does my SS20 try to use an external disk as root filesystem? Which device is 08:01? AFAIK, 08:01 is sda1: brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Jul 5 2000 sda1 I have a feeling that the Linux kernel is identifying your ID 0 disk as sda, which would be problematic as you want to boot from the ID 3 disk. Perhaps try putting your internal disk into the other SCA slot (to make it ID 0) and adjusting the jumpers on your external box (ie make the external disks ID 1-3). HTH. -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://weblogs.turner.org.za/mj/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: An (flamebait ?) idea to preserve debian on sparc32...
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:50:58PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: As a side-note: does NetBSD support SMP on sun4m? This is the main issue for me. Indeed it does - NetBSD 2.0 and later support SMP on pretty much all Super/HyperSPARC CPUs. You can even mix speeds, but not CPUs with cache with CPUs without cache. I've had very good results with it. -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://weblogs.turner.org.za/mj/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT:U10 Won't boot, possible hardware failure
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 03:42:56PM +0100, Martin wrote: eBay is good. However I *believe* the Ultra 10's use a standard ATX power supply, certainly have a look and see if it is. Yep, they do - I know of people who have replaced the PSUs in their U5s/10s with standard ATX PSUs. A good starting point would be to replace the PSU and see if that solves the problem. -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://mj.turner.org.za/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to use 200 GB Disk on Ultra10?
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:16:15AM +0100, Roland Rick wrote: I have an old Ultra10 and want to use it as RAID1 mirror. Unfortunately I may not correctly see my 200 GB disks... See the following post to linux-kernel: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.3/0484.html According to it, you should be able to use the drives in your U10, but not boot from them (the kernel doesn't use the PROM after the boot process and most modern kernels support LBA48). YMMV of course and I haven't tried this myself. Google for linux lba48 for more info. -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://mj.turner.org.za/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GPG/PGP key via mail, WWW or finger @phantom
