Re: please restore Sun XVR video drivers, and add the latest one [was Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500]

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 09:43:56AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 09:45:45PM -0400, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:13:45AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > > Package: linux-2.6
> > > Version: 2.6.32-9
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:24:37PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > > > Josip, please make sure this gets fixed, please get my
> > > > > sunxvr1000 driver added (attached) and then add:
> > > > > 
> > > > > CONFIG_FB_XVR500=y
> > > > > CONFIG_FB_XVR2500=y
> > > > > CONFIG_FB_XVR1000=y
> > > > > 
> > > > > to the config for sparc64.
> > > > 
> > > > Ok, further checking shows that lenny has XVR500 and XVR2500
> > > > enabled (doing a test install with a XVR-500 card right now)
> > > > but testing doesn't.
> > > 
> > > Indeed, they seem to have gone missing somehow from
> > > debian/config/sparc/config where there's just:
> > > 
> > > # CONFIG_FB_LEO is not set
> > > # CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set
> > > 
> > > whereas in the same source we have arch/sparc/configs/sparc64_defconfig
> > > where there's:
> > > 
> > > # CONFIG_FB_LEO is not set
> > > CONFIG_FB_XVR500=y
> > > CONFIG_FB_XVR2500=y
> > > # CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set
> > > 
> > > I'm filing a bug report with this message, thanks for the exact hint.
> > > 
> > > As for the new driver that Dave mentioned as an attachment, it's
> > > already in mainline at:
> > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d378b9179881b46a0faf11430efb421fe03ddd8
> > > That should apply pretty easily to .32 stable.
> > 
> > I've added the patch and activated it in the Sparc config. Do you have the
> > hardware, can you test a build?
> 
> Me personally, no, but if you post a link I'm sure someone will crop up :)
> Just yesterday we had someone ask about XVR-1200.

They're commited in SVN for 2.6.32-20:
svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/sid/linux-2.6

Could someone from debian-sparc with the hardware please test it?

Cheers,
Moritz


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Re: please restore Sun XVR video drivers, and add the latest one [was Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500]

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:13:45AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.32-9
> 
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:24:37PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > > Josip, please make sure this gets fixed, please get my
> > > sunxvr1000 driver added (attached) and then add:
> > > 
> > > CONFIG_FB_XVR500=y
> > > CONFIG_FB_XVR2500=y
> > > CONFIG_FB_XVR1000=y
> > > 
> > > to the config for sparc64.
> > 
> > Ok, further checking shows that lenny has XVR500 and XVR2500
> > enabled (doing a test install with a XVR-500 card right now)
> > but testing doesn't.
> 
> Indeed, they seem to have gone missing somehow from
> debian/config/sparc/config where there's just:
> 
> # CONFIG_FB_LEO is not set
> # CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set
> 
> whereas in the same source we have arch/sparc/configs/sparc64_defconfig
> where there's:
> 
> # CONFIG_FB_LEO is not set
> CONFIG_FB_XVR500=y
> CONFIG_FB_XVR2500=y
> # CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set
> 
> I'm filing a bug report with this message, thanks for the exact hint.
> 
> As for the new driver that Dave mentioned as an attachment, it's
> already in mainline at:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d378b9179881b46a0faf11430efb421fe03ddd8
> That should apply pretty easily to .32 stable.

I've added the patch and activated it in the Sparc config. Do you have the
hardware, can you test a build?

Cheers,
Moritz


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Re: Sparc release requalification

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:03:46AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:38:22PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> > > > > If the PROM console driver still has some utility, maybe the boot 
> > > > > option is
> > > > > the way to go... does it? Does anyone still manufacture new machines 
> > > > > with
> > > > > new and strange console types that we don't support? :)
> > > > 
> > > > The PROM console driver has no relevance today at all.
> > > > 
> > > > It should simply never be used.
> > > 
> > > OK, cool, please remove it, and also please propagate that to the stable
> > > branches so we don't miss anyone who's not on the bleeding edge.
> > 
> > Please feel free to follow up on http://bugs.debian.org/525958 which I've
> > filed in April to have the CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE removed.
> 
> Yeah, definitely, Cc:ed. Dave has in the meantime killed it completely in
> his stable tree:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6.git;a=commit;h=09d3f3f0e02c8a900d076c302c5c02227f33572d
> 
> There's another commit that takes it out of the defconfigs completely - it
> was already unset there for a while now. So it's pretty much official now
> (well, Linus still has to take it in, but that should be a formality).

Disabled in trunk for 2.6.31.

Could you test a Lenny image with CONSOLE_PROM_CONSOLE disabled to verify
there are no regressions?

Cheers,
Moritz


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Re: [FIX]: ultra45 boot failing...

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 02:49:25PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Julien Cristau 
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 15:52:20 +0200
> 
> > I plan to revert it for lenny r2, and if time permits I'll try to
> > make the xserver-xorg package generate an xorg.conf with Driver set
> > to fbdev instead..
> 
> Indeed, that's likely to work much better.

AFAICS this bug can be closed? Can any Sparc user confirm?

Lenny's xorg switched to fbdev in 1:7.3+19/20, current Xorg from unstable
shouldn't expose the problem any longer.

Lenny's kernel has been fixed in 2.6.26-14. Current version is fine we well.

Cheers,
Moritz


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Re: Bug#500358: Fix found

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:28:44PM -0600, Jordan Bettis wrote:
> 
> Hi. I just wanted to weigh in and say that I've tried Max's fix on my
> Ultra 5 and I can confirm that it works with the X server from lenny.
> 
> Before trying Max's kernel patch I also verified that X.org is
> *broken* and unusable using the default kernel. This is true of the
> X.org server included in Lenny as well as the 1.5.3 server in
> experimental.
> 
> Looking at the patch it's clear that the original intention of the
> kernel change was to clean out some seemingly crufty and dodgy old
> code, but seeing that
> 
> 1) the change is localized to SPARC machines;
> 
> 2) it renders X.org unusable with Ultra 5s, and highly probably Ultra
> 10s as they're virtually the same, as well as an unknown set of other
> machines;
> 
> 3) Ultra 5s and Ultra 10s seem to remain the most popular SPARC
> machines for the desktop (and therefore the set of SPARC machines
> likely to have X.org installed)
> 
> it doesn't seem reasonable to release stable Debian system with this
> problem in it on the academic grounds that "it's X.org's fault." 
> 
> This is a serious problem with Debian on SPARC. Assuming that Debian
> really cares about SPARC, (particularly on the desktop) and I think
> the project should do what needs to be done to make sure that this bug
> doesn't make it into the released version of Lenny.
> 
> Someone mentioned not wanting to build their own kernel so I uploaded
> the one I built to my web server. I tried to build it from the source
> of linux-image-2.6.26, so that it would be identical to the Debian
> kernel -- with the patch applied -- but I ran into problems running
> dpkg-buildpackage. So instead I went with the usual
> linux-source/make-kpkg route. 
> 
> I enabled just about everything though so it should be pretty similar
> to a Debian kernel with respect to features. It is also built using
> initrd.
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry about the name. I got a bit carried away.

Please retest the official 2.6.26-11 images to verify if they work you:

  linux-2.6 (2.6.26-11) unstable; urgency=low
  .
[ Bastian Blank ]
* [sparc] Reintroduce dummy PCI host controller to workaround broken X.org.
* [sparc] Fix size checks in PCI maps.

Cheers,
Moritz





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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1294-1] New xfree86 packages fix several vulnerabilities

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Josip Rodin wrote:
> What else needs to happen to get something done about this?

spontini lacks disk space; it cannot build anything larger
than small tool packages. I was told there's even an unused
nine GB partition available, so it might even be fixable w/o
actually upgrading hardware.

Cheers,
Moritz


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Re: Sparc 2.4 Sarge kernel metapackages have not been updated by DSA 1018-1

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

["Followup-To:" header set to gmane.linux.debian.devel.security.]
On 2006-03-24, Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> For those running a Sparc with 2.4 kernel, it doesn't look like the
> metapackages "kernel-image-2.4-sparc{32,64}{,-smp}" have been updated
> correctly for Sarge -- they still depend upon the old 2.4.27-2 packages.

This is fixed in DSA 1018-2.

Cheers,
Moritz


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Re: Raptor Gfx with Sun U5

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Clint Adams wrote:
> Are you using the Permedia framebuffer driver on console?
> There appear to be some deficiencies in XFree86's PM2V driver for the
> Raptor GFX 8P, which change if you initialize the card with the Linux
> 2.4 fb driver (which itself has deficiencies for this card).

There's a port of the permidia fbdev to 2.6.*, which may fix some of
these issues:
http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/pm2fb.diff