Re: Latest Debian Sparc64 installer

2018-12-17 Thread Tom Dial
On 12/17/18 04:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Thomas! > > On 12/17/18 8:27 AM, Thomas D Dial wrote: >> I have found debian-10.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso (apparent date 5/18/18 >> and debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso (apparent date 4/4/18) at >> cdimage.debian.org. Is there a later

Re: Latest Debian Sparc64 installer

2018-12-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2018-12-17 20:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 12/17/18 7:38 PM, Gregor Riepl wrote: > >> Or will you add a.out support back into libbfd? > >No, that's not really possible as upstream doesn't want to deal with a.out and >COFF anymore, unfortunately. Hm? Was COFF/a.out dropped

Re: Latest Debian Sparc64 installer

2018-12-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/17/18 11:08 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> Or will you add a.out support back into libbfd? >> >> No, that's not really possible as upstream doesn't want to deal with a.out >> and >> COFF anymore, unfortunately. > > Hm? Was COFF/a.out dropped yet from binutils? (That is not what I observe.)

Re: Latest Debian Sparc64 installer

2018-12-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/17/18 7:38 PM, Gregor Riepl wrote: > Are you going to move sparc-utils back into the tree then, so elftoaout can be > used to convert the grub binary? I will add elftoaout.c directly to the GRUB sources. It needs some clean up so that it builds without -Werror, but I already have a test

Re: Latest Debian Sparc64 installer

2018-12-17 Thread Gregor Riepl
> I'm working on a newer release, but I need to fix GRUB2 on sparc64 first > which currently fails to build there due to a change in binutils. > > It's on my TODO list for the holidays. Great! Are you going to move sparc-utils back into the tree then, so elftoaout can be used to convert the

Re: Latest Debian Sparc64 installer

2018-12-17 Thread Kevin Stabel
Hi, I had a problem with the driver, but i disconnected the second loop to the drive backplane, and it worked. It's a long shot, but i guess you could try? Kind Regards, -Kevin On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:10 PM Rick Leir wrote: > Thomas > Does your machine have FiberChannel disks (FC-AL?) > >

Re: Latest Debian Sparc64 installer

2018-12-17 Thread Rick Leir
Thomas Does your machine have FiberChannel disks (FC-AL?) There was a problem with the driver the last time I tried to install. That was a year ago, and I was too busy to fix it. My guess is that there is an endian problem in whatever boot code that calls the driver. I say that because the

Re: Latest Debian Sparc64 installer

2018-12-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Thomas! On 12/17/18 8:27 AM, Thomas D Dial wrote: > I have found debian-10.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso (apparent date 5/18/18 > and debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso (apparent date 4/4/18) at > cdimage.debian.org. Is there a later version of either? I'm working on a newer release, but I need to