Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Meelis Roos
Hello Meelis, Perhaps of interest ... i was being hit with the qla2xxx driver panics as well on my v880. I unplugged the second FCAL loop to the backplane, and this fixed it. Perhaps this is something you could try? I have not tried on my V880 but I got similar trouble on V480. But where is

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Rick Leir
Oracle Linux .. for Intel processors? Please ask him about Oracle Linux for Sparc. I would like to give it a try if they have it. Thanks -- Rick On May 9, 2019 5:00:52 PM EDT, Dennis Clarke wrote: >On 5/9/19 4:44 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: >>> Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Rick Leir
Yes, and most homes have that plug behind the stove in the kitchen and for the dryer in the laundry room. It is easy to wire up another like this in the contact breaker panel. Cheers -- Rick On May 9, 2019 4:02:57 PM EDT, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 5/9/19 9:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Kevin Stabel
Hello Meelis, Perhaps of interest ... i was being hit with the qla2xxx driver panics as well on my v880. I unplugged the second FCAL loop to the backplane, and this fixed it. Perhaps this is something you could try? On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 11:03 PM Meelis Roos wrote: > > Given that it works on

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Meelis Roos
Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I will give that a look see and also I hope serial console works out of the box. Yes, I

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 4:44 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I will give that a look see and also I hope serial

Re: I have to ask .. has anyone tried SPARC T7 ? SPARC S7? SPARC T8?

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 4:20 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/9/19 10:18 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: I had some S7-2 units in a project and was fairly impressed with what they could do. Of all things they were MySql servers and with fibre attached storage they were really impressive units. Just curious

Re: I have to ask .. has anyone tried SPARC T7 ? SPARC S7? SPARC T8?

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/9/19 10:18 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I had some S7-2 units in a project and was fairly impressed with what > they could do. Of all things they were MySql servers and with fibre > attached storage they were really impressive units. > > Just curious if anyone has seen or tried this sort of har

I have to ask .. has anyone tried SPARC T7 ? SPARC S7? SPARC T8?

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
I had some S7-2 units in a project and was fairly impressed with what they could do. Of all things they were MySql servers and with fibre attached storage they were really impressive units. Just curious if anyone has seen or tried this sort of hardware with a Debian installer image. -- Dennis

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 4:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/9/19 9:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: The big blocker for me is that the M4000 needs 240V power supply. Otherwise I would run it at home. I thought you can get 240 volts in the US when using a two-phase power outlet. Well a UPS is needed a

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread James Clarke
On 9 May 2019, at 20:31, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > On 5/9/19 18:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the >> following Debian Ports architectures: >> [...] >> * sparc64 >> >> I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as ne

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/9/19 9:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > The big blocker for me is that the M4000 needs 240V power supply. > Otherwise I would run it at home. I thought you can get 240 volts in the US when using a two-phase power outlet. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - gl

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/9/19 9:55 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 > should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of > those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I > will give that a look see and also I hop

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/9/19 9:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >>     - Installation over a serial console is currently broken >>   on sparc64 due to a bug in the rootskel package >>   (can also be considered a kernel bug), see: #926539. >>   Use any image before 2019-04-06 as workaround. > > Looks like thi

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 3:33 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: [2] also has some further reading about this topic. Maybe you get in touch with Meelis Roos, who started a thread titled "Adding support for Fujitsu SPARC64 machines?" on the linux-sparc mailing list (see [3]) some years ago. Maybe this can be revived. [3]

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Meelis Roos
[2] also has some further reading about this topic. Maybe you get in touch with Meelis Roos, who started a thread titled "Adding support for Fujitsu SPARC64 machines?" on the linux-sparc mailing list (see [3]) some years ago. Maybe this can be revived. [3]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&m=14

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 3:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Adrian, On 5/9/19 18:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: [...]   * sparc64 I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as netboot images [2]. Please test

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Adrian, On 5/9/19 18:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: [...] * sparc64 I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as netboot images [2]. Please test those images and report back over the mai

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
It can't be that that much of an issue, because OpenBSD runs on these machines (according to [4] and my tests on serveral PRIMEPOWER 250s). And for the Linux kernel you can actually see some Linux kernel messages before the machine experiences a red state exception... [4]: http://www.openbsd.

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 5/9/19 20:01, Dennis Clarke wrote: I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? Or even M4000 ? I'm starting to wonder if my mails about ... No I am not ignoring you. I simply didn't recall over my

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 1:52 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 5/9/19 19:42, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 1:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 5/9/19 19:42, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 1:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures:  

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 1:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures:   * alpha   * hppa   * ia64   * m68k   *

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures:   * alpha   * hppa   * ia64   * m68k   * powerpc   * ppc64   * sh4   * sparc64 I

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/9/19 6:34 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> I have never touched any of those machines, but from what I know some of >> the Fujitsu machines aren't supported by the Linux kernel. > > Oh dear. Well, you can try whether it boots. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Develope

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 12:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/9/19 6:29 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? Or even M4000 ? I have never touched any of those machines, but fr

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/9/19 6:29 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for > the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? > > Or even M4000 ? I have never touched any of those machines, but from what I know some of the Fujitsu machines aren'

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: * alpha * hppa * ia64 * m68k * powerpc * ppc64 * sh4 * sparc64 I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was ju

Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: * alpha * hppa * ia64 * m68k * powerpc * ppc64 * sh4 * sparc64 I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as netboot images [2]. Please test those images and report back over the maili