Compiling kernel on sunfire v210 with openVZ patch

2007-05-21 Thread andrew holway
I'm trying to compile a patched kernel on a sunfire v210 dual processor but Im getting kernel/cpt/cpt_context.c:134:2: error: #error Arch is not supported make[2]: *** [kernel/cpt/cpt_context.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kernel/cpt] Error 2 make: *** [kernel] Error 2 debian:/usr/src/kernel-2.6.18/lin

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Martin Habets
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij > Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question > if support sparc32 should be dropped for Lenny [1]. I agree with this intent, as I wrot

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 21 May 2007 21:49, Martin Habets wrote: > FYI, 2.6.21 is rock solid on my SS20 here. Do you consider it broken > just because of some cdrom issues? Or is there more? I don't have more details than this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/05/msg00305.html pgpP7XiSvJTe8.pgp Descr

Re: etch installation on sun blade 1000

2007-05-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:24:23PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > "lspci" and it said that there are following SCSI controllers: "QLogic > > QLA2200" and "LSI Symbios Logic 53c875". > > I tried to choose "sym53c8xx" and "qla2xxx" from drivers list but neither > > of them worked. > > If the disks in

Hardware demand/need consequences of dropping Sparc32 . . .

2007-05-21 Thread Ted Havelka
Hello Debian-Sparc Developers and Users, My name is Ted Havelka, Debian user and appreciator of older Sun architectures. I've been following the posts to this list regarding the dropping of support and development for Sparc32 ported Debian. Forgive my lack of education with this question, bu

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:44:44PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > The plan is to continue the existing port, dropping support for 64 bit > kernels and allowing use of SPARC v9 instructions rather than to do a I, of course, mean *32* bit kernels there. Sorry. *sigh* -- "You grabbed my hand and w

Re: etch installation on sun blade 1000

2007-05-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:23:47PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: > these problems are well known and related to outdated tools on the build > host. Once www-master is updated to Etch these errors will go away. Sadly, you can't count on that happening just like that, so one can't rush it. > Please not

Re: etch installation on sun blade 1000

2007-05-21 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Josip, On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:45:13PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > We seem to have various errors in > /org/www.debian.org/release-notes/build.log that nobody is taking care of... these problems are well known and related to outdated tools on the build host. Once www-master is updated to E

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij > > Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question > > if support sparc32 sho

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Jordan Bettis
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij > Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question > if support sparc32 should be dropped for Lenny [1]. > > The main reason is the fact tha

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > Fine, as long as you provide 32-bit as well as 64-bit userland. Otherwise The plan is to continue the existing port, dropping support for 64 bit kernels and allowing use of SPARC v9 instructions rather than to do a new port with 64 bit

Re: etch installation on sun blade 1000

2007-05-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:24:23PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > If the disks in the machine are plugged into the QLogic controller, you have > the firmware issue described at ... oh, wait, why didn't that release notes > change propagate to the live web version? Let me investigate... We seem to hav

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Joe Buck
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij > Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question > if support sparc32 should be dropped for Lenny [1]. Fine, as long as you provide 32-bit

Re: etch installation on sun blade 1000

2007-05-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:48:21PM +0200, Talecki Michał wrote: I did > "lspci" and it said that there are following SCSI controllers: "QLogic > QLA2200" and "LSI Symbios Logic 53c875". > I tried to choose "sym53c8xx" and "qla2xxx" from drivers list but neither > of them worked. If the disks in th

Re: etch installation on sun blade 1000

2007-05-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 21 May 2007 16:48, Talecki Michał wrote: > Now it says: > "No disk drive was detected" Are there any messages in the output of dmesg that show whether the disk was detected or possibly any errors? Possibly it will show that the disk driver requires firmware. Loading firmware is current

etch installation on sun blade 1000

2007-05-21 Thread Talecki Michał
Hi, I have a problem installing debian etch on sun blade 1000. I've already passed the video card problem at boot time. Now it says: "No disk drive was detected" I did "lspci" and it said that there are following SCSI controllers: "QLogic QLA2200" and "LSI Symbios Logic 53c875". I t

Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-21 Thread Frans Pop
The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question if support sparc32 should be dropped for Lenny [1]. The main reason is the fact that sparc32 support is no longer being maintained upstream for the ker