Re: Sparc release requalification

2009-08-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:32:43PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > > > the sid kernels are not booting on my machine (SunBlade 1000), and I > > > > > have > > > > > an independent confirmation from someone with a similar machine that > > > > > they > > > > > are experiencing similar problems - I

Re: Sparc release requalification

2009-08-22 Thread Jurij Smakov
[dropping debian-release, as it's not very interesting for them anymore] On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:00:54AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:30:29PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > > the sid kernels are not booting on my machine (SunBlade 1000), and I > > > > have > > > > a

RE: Ultra 10 assistance

2009-08-22 Thread mubex....@gmail.com
Stop n rule -Original Message- From: Dave Barnett Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 12:31 PM To: Mark Morgan Lloyd Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Ultra 10 assistance Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Dave Barnett wrote: > >> I believed the issue to be the NVRAM/TOD chip, but

Re: Ultra 10 assistance

2009-08-22 Thread Dave Barnett
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Dave Barnett wrote: I believed the issue to be the NVRAM/TOD chip, but replacing it has not changed anything. I have swapped the power supply, removed all PCI cards, and the machine continues to have some limited activity as above, but without the power light illumin

Re: Sun Blade 100 - boot issue

2009-08-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:41:41AM +0100, Nataraj M Basappa wrote: > i am new to sparc hardware, just found this isse after setting up > lenny using netboot install. > default kernal options on the stock kernel fails (see attached txt - > withoutdma.txt), if i add ide=nodma boots correctly. is thi

Re: NR_CPUS is only 32

2009-08-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:14:46PM -0700, Stewart Smith wrote: > The sparc64-SMP kernels seem to only support up to 32 CPU cores. It's > increasingly hard to get a SPARC box with less than this... should it be > raised? Maybe to 128 or 256? (128 is fairly easy to get too actually) File a wishlist

Sun Blade 100 - boot issue

2009-08-22 Thread Nataraj M Basappa
hi, i am new to sparc hardware, just found this isse after setting up lenny using netboot install. default kernal options on the stock kernel fails (see attached txt - withoutdma.txt), if i add ide=nodma boots correctly. is this a known issue? (as i found on some ubuntu forums) let me know if more

Re: Ultra 10 assistance

2009-08-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Dave Barnett wrote: I believed the issue to be the NVRAM/TOD chip, but replacing it has not changed anything. I have swapped the power supply, removed all PCI cards, and the machine continues to have some limited activity as above, but without the power light illuminated, it will not do anyth