Re: Debian 3.0 on Netra X1, installs but won't run

2003-06-15 Thread Jamie Lenehan
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 04:11:14PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 04:05:03AM +1000, Jamie Lenehan wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 09:03:19AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: I just tftpbooted the images from http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ [...]

Re: Debian 3.0 on Netra X1, installs but won't run

2003-06-15 Thread Jamie Lenehan
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: One other thing. I've heard that the performance of Ultrasparc Linux is not expected to be as good as Solaris because user-mode Sparc binaries run in a 32 bit mode. How do you feel about how well Linux As far as I know solaris also

kernel compile: -mno-fpu

2003-06-15 Thread Brian C Miles
While building 2.4.21 on my SS20 SMP box, I noticed -mno-fpu being used as a CFLAG. Does anyone know why? This isn't an indication that fp emulation is being compiled into the kernel (i.e. though it may very well be), but a directive to tell GCC to try and use software implementations of fp

Re: kernel compile: -mno-fpu

2003-06-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:01:00AM -0400, Brian C Miles wrote: While building 2.4.21 on my SS20 SMP box, I noticed -mno-fpu being used as a CFLAG. Does anyone know why? This isn't an indication that fp emulation is being compiled into the kernel (i.e. though it may very well be), but a

Re: Debian 3.0 on Netra X1, installs but won't run

2003-06-15 Thread Nate Campi
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 04:12:24PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: One other thing. I've heard that the performance of Ultrasparc Linux is not expected to be as good as Solaris because user-mode Sparc binaries run in a 32 bit mode. How do you feel about how well Linux runs on the Ultrasparc?

Re: New kernel 2.4.21 and Sparc

2003-06-15 Thread Kenneth Johansson
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 15:13, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 03:06:20PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Ben Collins wrote: suspect you did something wrong though. Try my kernel-image-2.4.21-sparc64 package. If that works, use the /boot/config-2.4.21 as a

libc6-sparc64 / testing

2003-06-15 Thread Philippe Sainte-Marie
Hi. I'm having troubles while upgrading my debian from stable to testing: Unpacking replacement libc6-sparc64 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-sparc64_2.3.1-16_sparc.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/lib/64', which is also in package gcc-3.0 ... Errors were

Re: libc6-sparc64 / testing

2003-06-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:37:53PM +0200, Philippe Sainte-Marie wrote: Hi. I'm having troubles while upgrading my debian from stable to testing: apt-get remove libc6-sparc64 apt-get upgrade apt-get install libc6-sparc64 -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 -