Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-10-11 Thread John David Anglin
On 8/4/2013 8:21 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: On the glibc front I don't have as good news. We shipped 2.18 without all of the hppa patches, but keep a patchset up to date, and I'm merging in some changes from Dave. My 2.17 patch set has been uploaded as Debian Bug #725508:

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-13 Thread Thibaut Varène
Hi Helge, Le 3 août 2013 à 22:41, Helge Deller del...@gmx.de a écrit : Furthermore, we sadly still don't have buildd-server. What really is missing here is someone who is willing to host a parisc server and provide enough direct bandwith to the internet. Giving away real server hardware is

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-13 Thread Helge Deller
Hi Thibaut, On 08/13/2013 11:38 AM, Thibaut Varène wrote: Le 3 août 2013 à 22:41, Helge Deller del...@gmx.de a écrit : Furthermore, we sadly still don't have buildd-server. What really is missing here is someone who is willing to host a parisc server and provide enough direct bandwith to the

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-13 Thread John David Anglin
On 13-Aug-13, at 5:36 PM, Helge Deller wrote: Hi Thibaut, On 08/13/2013 11:38 AM, Thibaut Varène wrote: Le 3 août 2013 à 22:41, Helge Deller del...@gmx.de a écrit : Furthermore, we sadly still don't have buildd-server. What really is missing here is someone who is willing to host a parisc

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-10 Thread Dave Land
On 8/6/13 8:44 AM, Dave Land wrote: On 8/6/13 6:18 AM, John David Anglin wrote: On 5-Aug-13, at 11:07 PM, Dave Land wrote: Here's the error msg. and the backtrace: VFS: Cannot open root device (null) or unknown-block(0,)): error -6 Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-06 Thread John David Anglin
On 5-Aug-13, at 11:07 PM, Dave Land wrote: Here's the error msg. and the backtrace: VFS: Cannot open root device (null) or unknown-block(0,)): error -6 Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available partitions: 0300 20654 hda driver: ide-cdrom 081035566480 sdb

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-06 Thread Dave Land
On 8/6/13 6:18 AM, John David Anglin wrote: On 5-Aug-13, at 11:07 PM, Dave Land wrote: Here's the error msg. and the backtrace: VFS: Cannot open root device (null) or unknown-block(0,)): error -6 Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available partitions: 0300 20654

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-05 Thread Dave Land
On 8/4/13 1:24 PM, John David Anglin wrote: You have probably seen this howto: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO/paloappusage.html As I mentioned, I had trouble with new scheme. Possibly, this was because I created the partition type as F0 instead of linux 83. It didn't mount.

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-04 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Helge Deller del...@gmx.de wrote: So, what's the status of the Linux kernel for parisc? Basically, I think all major outstanding kernel patches are now in the upcoming kernel 3.11 tree, and the important ones will show up in the stable kernel 3.10 series

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-04 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Carlos O'Donell wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Helge Deller del...@gmx.de wrote: So, what's the status of the Linux kernel for parisc? Basically, I think all major outstanding kernel patches are now in the upcoming kernel 3.11 tree, and the important ones will show up in the

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-04 Thread John David Anglin
On 3-Aug-13, at 11:41 PM, Dave Land wrote: As far as a build server, if I can get this thing running fairly stable, I could probably host a build server at least part-time, due to the monsoon season is upon us right now, so power outages can be a problem. I have 4Mbit. downstream here, of

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-04 Thread Grant Grundler
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 8:38 AM, John David Anglin dave.ang...@bell.net wrote: ... The root= parameter mostly works for me. However, different kernels sometimes change the order of disk discovery when you have multiple drives. Helge thinks it would be easy to specify file system by uuid.

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-04 Thread John David Anglin
On 4-Aug-13, at 12:21 PM, Grant Grundler wrote: Right. Linux doesn't have a registry for /dev/sdX names and I don't think it ever will. Using root=UUID=xxx or root=LABEL=foo is plug and play friendly. Thanks, I'll give this a try. I believe LABEL comes from the partition table and UUID from

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-04 Thread Dave Land
On 8/4/13 9:38 AM, John David Anglin wrote: On 3-Aug-13, at 11:41 PM, Dave Land wrote: After talking with Helge off-list, I finally got my box (Visualize J6750) to boot to the 'real' OS on the HDD, but I'm still working out some issues with palo, so it will actually find the working root

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-04 Thread John David Anglin
You have probably seen this howto: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO/paloappusage.html As I mentioned, I had trouble with new scheme. Possibly, this was because I created the partition type as F0 instead of linux 83. It didn't mount. I'm assuming that you are trying to use

State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-03 Thread Helge Deller
Hello everyone, this is just a short update on the status of the parisc port from my point of view, including a short summary of what have been done during the last few weeks and what is planned for the near future. So, what's the status of the Linux kernel for parisc? Basically, I think all

Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)

2013-08-03 Thread Dave Land
On 8/3/13 2:41 PM, Helge Deller wrote: Hello everyone, this is just a short update on the status of the parisc port from my point of view, including a short summary of what have been done during the last few weeks and what is planned for the near future. So, what's the status of the Linux