Hi Ben,
You don't use gcc-2.96 or gcc-3.0 for compiling sparc64 kernels. The
package is egcs64. The 2.4.7 Debian kernels should be pretty recent, if
you are still not comfortable compiling them.
Linus has not taken the cache flush avoidance patches yet, it could give
a noticable difference
Try the solaris test again, Binkey, and this time use a filesystem
other than /tmp for the output. Try setting up a ufs-log file
system and see if the performance doesn't exceed that of linux.
I would think that Solaris tmpfs was faster than their filesystems since
it wont hit disk unless
Hi,
That?s not good for the Sparc machine (and even worse for Solaris by the way
but this is of less interest because the machine should run under Linux).
Any hint if there some optimisations could be done?
It would be worth upgrading the ultra to a recent 2.4 kernel from
Hi,
hmm... the 2.4.7 boot messages say:
Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: 20306MB HIGHMEM available.
Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 32080
Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: zone(0): 36864 pages.
Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: zone(1): 0 pages.
Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel:
Hi,
(who's anton? is he reading this list?)
Yep :)
yup; hung after a night on my SMP SS10, something about spinlocks
(uh, forgot to write down the actual message), what I have written
down and looked up in System.map is:
CPU0 stuck at f0047e4c swap_out_mm
CPU1 stuck at f003dedc
Hi,
Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: 20306MB HIGHMEM available.
Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 32080
Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: zone(0): 36864 pages.
Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: zone(1): 0 pages.
Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: zone(2): 81747 pages.
the box has 128 megs.
The big endian patches change the code to use little endian ordering
for all on-disk structures. IMO this is a mistake, and certainly
costs a dear performance penalty, because on big endian processors,
this method requires converting endianness both ways (reading and
writing) for all meta
data_access_exception: Shit SFSR[00801009] SFAR[fe320048],
going.
You need to pass this through ksymoops to be useful. What kernel
version are you using?
Anton
Hi,
The canonical source for sparc kernels is from the CVS tree, rather than
from linus' or alan's trees. Having said that, the error below occurs
currently in the CVS tree. Check the archives of sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
mailing list and you will find a solution for this compile problem.
Hmm... That is interesting, care to share how to managed to find
that this was the point of the crash from the data I sent you? Might be a
handy thing to know. :)
ksymoops -VOLK -m System.map oops
Then match up the assembly with the C code :)
Anton
After some additional debugging and detective work, I figured out
the catalyst for the crash... RAID partition autodetect by the kernel at
boot time. Once I changed the types of the partitions on the raid disks to
83 (from fd), and rebooted, the system did not autodetect any raid arrays
i recently upgraded to woody.
During installation i get this error on ghostcript fonts:
Setting up gsfonts-x11 (0.12.1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gsfonts-x11.postinst: line 12: 22181 Segmentation fault
$currentcmd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/$dir
Any try to remove or reinstall it gives the same
Do you get an oops report or does it lock up hard? I'd like to track this
bug down since I havent had access to a 2 CPU machine for a while.
No. it just stops. =^/
Is there a way for me to help tracking it ?
If you have a keyboard, does the caps lock key work (ie the keyboard driver
is
Hi,
I've recently installed potato on a e4500 machine and noticed some strange
behaviour.
First, the bogoMIPS calculation is quite strange:
Jan 26 17:00:21 levaca kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 799.53 BogoMIPS
Jan 26 17:00:21 levaca last message repeated 7 times
Jan 26 17:00:21
Ok, thanks. I try to boot my Sparc10 with vmlinux-2.4.0; this is what
happens:
SILO boot:
PROMLIB: obio_ranges 5
bootmem_init: Scan sp_banks, init_bootmem(spfn[217],bpfn[217],mlpfn[c000])
free_bootmem: base[0] size[100]
reserve_bootmem: base[0] size[217000]
reserve_bootmem:
It is probably doing an unaligned load or store.
How would I fix that?
Try this patch. Ben can this be added to the deb?
Anton
--- netdiag-0.7.orig/netwatch/netwatch.cWed Jul 7 23:31:26 1999
+++ netdiag-0.7/netwatch/netwatch.c Sat Oct 7 15:41:10 2000
@@ -2366,13 +2366,12 @@
}
does anyone have any info on the sun4 port? Whatever happened to it?
what is the support in the kernel for sun4 at this moment? I ask because
I have gotten hold of a SPARCserver 330. Is there anyone I should
contact who would know (have info)?
I have a sun4 machine running 2.2. There
Pretty much everything but E10k has been tested (sun4u). To be honest, a
distributions hardware support is defined more by the kernel that what
the distribution does. IOW, we support whatever the kernel supports. Our
current (just released) 2.2 version is based on Linux Kernel 2.2.17.
The
Any ideas why I'd be getting a bus error while running netwatch? Seems to
die when it gets a packet :-(
It is probably doing an unaligned load or store.
Anton
to my surpise 'apt-get install iptables' on a potato
box, fails with: E: Couldn't find package iptables.
may I ask why? ;-)
Not sure why, but I'd be interested to know of any problems with
netfilter on sparc.
Anton
Having hunted high and low to find an answer as to why my ELC is showing a
white line (the width of one character) on the left side of the console
screen. Another curious thing is that the linux boot startup logo is munched.
Can anybody shed some light on the subject?
The white line is
Would M17 exists on sparc (woody or whatever) ? Last time I check it
is still M15. And it doesn't works for me. It does several things,
fires up the profile manager which hangs. I hope that M17 would work
(On an intel box M17 is much more stable than M15)
The sparclinux builds appear on
Woody's getting there now. I setup a brand spanking new (read uses all
the new nifty buildd features) buildd last week, and so far it has pumped
out 400 builds.
Great stuff! I'll point one of my sparcs at woody.
Does helix have an apt accesible source directory? If so, I can probably
has someone built the binaries (or even an installer package) for the
gnome-helix release?
I'd be prepared to work on this.
Ben: How is woody? Is the debian sparc unstable autobuilder up and running?
Anton
I have a Sparc 20 running as a web server at work and is plugged
into a UPS along with two other computers. The UPS (Best Power Fortress)
has a serial cable that plugs into one of the other computers and warns it
of when there is a power loss and when to shutdown. I have this computer,
I've got an SS10 with two CPUs, running a 2.2.15 kernel with SMP
enabled. It locks up hard periodically, and won't respond to
stop-A, a break on the serial port, the three-fingered salute,
or, in fact, anything short of a power-cycle.
When I was fixing sparc32 SMP in 2.2, I only had access
Are the AX/AXi like the AXe (ps2 system)?
Yep. They support both ps2 and sun keyboards.
I assume this is with a Xsun. I think I have a solution to make the Xsun
server try /dev/gpmdata initially before trying /dev/mouse. This will
assume that you have -Rraw enabled on gpm which works for
In the make menuconfig for the 2.2.14 kernel, it has two entries which I
think pertain to dual processor sparc 10 setups. These settings are:
o Symetric Multi-processing support (does not work on sun4/sun4c)
o Support for Sun4 machines (disables sun4[cdm] support)
I said yes to the
Anyone had any
luck with 2.3.99 kernels on sparc32? I'll be trying it maybe later today
if i get a chance :)
The latest 2.3.99 should work on sparc32. Please test if you can and send
problems to myself or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anton
Hi,
I installed frozen on a classic using rescue/root floppy and the rest
over http. Worked really well. Great stuff!
I notice /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/gpmdata, however gpm does not
support exporting a sunmouse device which the sparc X servers expect.
Cheers,
Anton
Does anyone know of a link to the specifications of a Sun 4/330 model 547
server and will it run Linux of any kind? I know RH says it's not supported
but I'm curious to know why and what exactly it it.
The kernel supports 4/330, however the redhat/debian installers and silo do
not as of yet.
I've hit similar behaviour on my 670MP. The problem is that X still 'has' the
keyboard, and it's still in raw mode. The workaround is to login remotely or
on
the console, and run kbd_mode -a.
Dunno if there's a fix.
My 690MP has the same problem. I'll chase it up as soon as I have a non
I keep hearing about koops (?) on the sparclinux list but can't seem
to find it. Am I delusional, a poor speller, or something else
entirely?
You are probably looking for ksymoops. I usually run:
ksymoops -VOLK -m System.map oops
Cheers,
Anton
This is an initial shot at a set of boot floppies for sparc. Note that
this is not uploaded for the dist yet since it is a) based on
boot-floppies CVS and not the one in the potato archive, and b) uses a set
of 2.2.14 kernel images that can't be uploaded until the 2.2.14 source is
in the
Logs at the bottom... (Looking at the logs, it looks like it happened
yet again while I was at lunch, but it survived it this time.
Weirdness.)
Can you run this through ksymoops or else send me a copy of your System.map?
Cheers,
Anton
Woaaah Apparently I'm very lucky, because the SLC here wasn't
damaged. :-)) But I can confirm: X doesn't work if a kernel 2.2.x is running.
(Tested up to 2.2.10) Text mode works fine if you ignore the big wipe stripe
running down on the left side of the screen. ;-))
Don't worry, the
What's broken about it, i've got a bwtwo in a IPC running 2.2.10 and it
appears
to work fine.
X doesnt work. I was going to look into it but as soon as I decided to my SLC
broke.
Anton
I compiled successfully a sparc64 kernel on my SS10 but it does not
boot.
My question is, can I run a sparc64 kernel on a SS10? I need the kernel
to enable
solaris binary emulation.
No you must run a 32 bit kernel on a SS10. The sparc64 solaris binary
emulation needs to be ported to
I suspect that there are serious problems with the 2.2.8 kernel, so
you might want to go with the 2.2.7 ones. (I will try 2.2.9 RSN -
Herbert Xu promised to upload an x86 package last sunday, but hasn't
done so.)
2.2.7 hangs during booting on some sun4m machines. It would be a good
idea to
after booting from the CD, and starting the instal, finds the cd-rom, and
hard drive, then gets caught in a loop of errors:
esp0: disconnect, reseting bus
esp0: restetting bus...
esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
The CD wouldn't happen to be a Sony CDU-8012 would it? A fix went in recently
This SparcBook is running slink in text mode fine, although moving the
cursor and srolling down the screen is painfully slow. (Why??)
You are probably seeing the prom console which is very slow and only used
if the framebuffer is not supported by the kernel.
Anton
Anybody know any details about the problem ``SunOS apps sometimes crash''?
I haven't had any problems recently.
SunOS emulation was recently reenabled after many vfork bugs were
fixed.
Anton
hi, I am trying to setup the xwindow for sparc 1+ with slink...
I type startx and it starts, but it just sits there with a blank screen as
black...
I'm not sure if I have all the files or not...
I have my xserver-xsun for my sparc and XFree86...
I'm new to linux but have learned alot so
If that's the case, I've already tested the 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 from the
cvs, which means it's still broke :)
Sorry, I meant the broken vfork was added in 2.2.4 and was still broken
in 2.2.5. With the latest cvs tree, vfork seems to work for me.
The reason I say to use the cvs is that it is
Terrible that we will need to predepend on a kernel version for glibc
2.1.1 though. This also means we need to make a cvs source package for
sparc kernels. IIRC, the vger cvs is also for powerpc so maybe we can
have this for that arch aswell.
From memory sparc vfork arrived in 2.2.4 and
This isn't the problem. modprobe is locking up. Whenever a module is
autoloaded, the system locks up. The last thing modprobe does is:
SYS_66(
Which should be a 'vfork()'. I'm not entirely sure what is going
wrong here. In the kernel vfork calls exactly the same code as fork
Please review the following boot sequence of a SPARC 630MP and if you can,
shed some light as to why the unit wants to cycle through the SCSI bus reset
process continuously. This is a self burned 2.1 debian CD image downloaded
from the debian site.
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0,
Ahhh, ok. Wasn't sure what was up. the .125, .130 and .131 kernels
compile fine for me from tsx-11. Oh well, i'll have to stick with .131.
and play with .132 on my Pentiumpro box. :)
I've been getting NMIs somewhat frequently with .125, especially, but not
exclusively, when exiting X.
I'm getting errors trying to compile 2.1.132 on my SS5-85 and was
wondering if anyone else had any trouble, or ideas on how to fix.
Hi Chris,
The mainstream kernel is out of sync for sparc. For the moment use the
vger kernel (see ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/README.CVS) or else
wait a
Jules the machine works well, although I do also occasionally see a
Jules watchdog reset for no apparent reason.
Speaking of which, is there any way to set it so that such resets
reboot the box, instead of halting it?
There is an option in the PROM to do this:
ftoomsh-root# cat
Alas :-( It doesn't fix it. The machine stil halts (actually, it watchdog
resets) when X dies.
Can you get a dump of .registers, .locals, ctrace? I don't have a cgsix so
it is pretty hard to trace without something to go on :)
You could set up a serial console on the sun if the screen is
I updated my cvs snapshot a few hours ago, and there was still a bug.
But applying the patch that you sent to the debian-sparc mailing list fixed
the problem. Thanks!
Great. The fix has been checked into the cvs tree.
Cheers,
Anton
Hi Jules,
Are you using a cgsix framebuffer? The current kernels have a problem with
the cgsix, which Davem narrowed down to the cg6_reset function.
Do you get booted back to the PROM? If so can you get the results of:
.locals .registers ctrace
As well as your System.map
Hmm. It
I have a similar problem. I use X via startx. When I quit X, I get:
Thanks for the report Paul. Davem should be adding a change into the
CVS tree later on tonight. Let me know if it doesn't work.
Cheers,
Anton
I switched back to 2.1.125 and the situation is now:
startx as root works OK, but when you end the X-session, the kernel
halts itself.
xdm works OK, but if you kill xdm (/etc/init.d/xdm stop) the kernel
commits suicide :-(
Are you using a cgsix framebuffer? The current kernels have a
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