Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

2016-11-24 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-11-24 12:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Dave! As promised in another mail earlier today, here is the current patch changes that we are currently using on top of silo HEAD to build it as a 64-bit package in Debian unstable (sparc64). The silo package has been shipped in Debian w

Re: openvpn-auth-ldap has old dependencies

2016-08-02 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-08-02 19:49, James Clarke wrote: (Including debian-sparc this time...) Not sure why, but when it was built (17 Oct 2014) it picked up libgnustep-base-dev (1.22.1-4.3) rather than a 1.24 version, though as far as I can tell the latter was already built on sparc64. A binNMU should suffice.

Re: openvpn-auth-ldap has old dependencies

2016-08-02 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-08-02 21:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 08/03/2016 01:49 AM, James Clarke wrote: Not sure why, but when it was built (17 Oct 2014) it picked up libgnustep-base-dev (1.22.1-4.3) rather than a 1.24 version, though as far as I can tell the latter was already built on sparc64. A bi

openvpn-auth-ldap has old dependencies

2016-08-02 Thread alexmcwhirter
This may be because the package is currently updating in the repository, is there any way to tell when this is happening? But anyways, as of now openvpn-auth-ldap depends on libgnustep-base1.22 which has been replaced by libgnustep-base1.24. This makes openvpn-auth-ldap uninstallable.

Re: Custom kernel comes out as wrong arch

2016-07-29 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-29 13:18, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: On 2016-07-29 12:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/29/2016 05:16 PM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Just add sparc64 to the arch case in this file. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/scripts/package/builddeb Man, you s

Re: Custom kernel comes out as wrong arch

2016-07-29 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-29 12:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/29/2016 05:16 PM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Just add sparc64 to the arch case in this file. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/scripts/package/builddeb Man, you should really add a bit more information in your mails

Re: Custom kernel comes out as wrong arch

2016-07-29 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-29 06:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/29/2016 05:06 AM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Turns out the kernel's deb build script needed a bit of tweaking, i noted this down to be put on the wiki. No, that's not for the wiki, this is something for the bug tracker. Please f

Re: Custom kernel comes out as wrong arch

2016-07-28 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-28 13:19, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: I've been working on some kernel customizations to fix a few issues, and went ahead and compiled a kernel with " make deb-pkg". The problem is that the resulting .deb is the wrong arch. dpkg -i linux-headers-4.6.4-rt6-5yn3r6y_4.6.4-1_sparc.deb

Re: rsync seem to be broken on sparc64

2016-07-28 Thread alexmcwhirter
This issue has been resolved for me with the following kernel patch. Tested on an E6K and V210 with a customized debian 4.6.4 kernel. This also resolves issues with ssh / ssl corruption. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/653511/ Hopefully this can get pushed out into the debian sparc64 repo as

Custom kernel comes out as wrong arch

2016-07-28 Thread alexmcwhirter
I've been working on some kernel customizations to fix a few issues, and went ahead and compiled a kernel with " make deb-pkg". The problem is that the resulting .deb is the wrong arch. dpkg -i linux-headers-4.6.4-rt6-5yn3r6y_4.6.4-1_sparc.deb dpkg: error processing archive linux-headers-4.6.4

Re: Booting an LDOM (can't find kernel)

2016-07-26 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-26 20:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: firmware is outdated... I would say this is most likely, i've run into issues with this in the past. I don't think oracle specifies a minimum version to run oracle linux, but i know OpenBSD does require newer firmware in order to run in a

Re: Booting an LDOM (can't find kernel)

2016-07-26 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-26 18:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Just try with "console=ttyS0". systemd reads this parameter from the kernel > command line and sets up the proper getty. > > The systemd documentation has lots of information on that. > > On Jul 26, 2016, at 11:37 PM, alexmcwhir...@t

Re: Booting an LDOM (can't find kernel)

2016-07-26 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-26 17:31, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: On 2016-07-26 17:25, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: On 2016-07-26 17:15, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Perhaps both are panicing? In this situation it seems that systemd, initramfs, etc... are all on one console and the kernel messages ar

Re: Booting an LDOM (can't find kernel)

2016-07-26 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-26 17:25, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: On 2016-07-26 17:15, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Perhaps both are panicing? In this situation it seems that systemd, initramfs, etc... are all on one console and the kernel messages are on another. I.E. kernel messages are on ttyS0 and ev

Re: Booting an LDOM (can't find kernel)

2016-07-26 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-26 17:15, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/26/2016 11:02 PM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: On 2016-07-26 16:58, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: The second one is panicing because ttyS0 doesn't exist, "[244919.084723] Warning: unable to open an initial console." do you have

Re: Booting an LDOM (can't find kernel)

2016-07-26 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-26 16:58, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: The second one is panicing because ttyS0 doesn't exist, "[244919.084723] Warning: unable to open an initial console." do you have a serial port configured on this ldom? Well actually it does seem to exist, "[244919.066269] f0296cdc: ttyS0

Re: Booting an LDOM (can't find kernel)

2016-07-26 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-26 15:13, rod...@netbsd.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 02:21:38PM -0400, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: On 2016-07-26 07:44, rod...@netbsd.org wrote: >On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 07:31:38PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >wrote: >>On 07/24/2016 06:50 PM, rod...@netbsd.org wrote: >>

Re: Booting an LDOM (can't find kernel)

2016-07-26 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-26 07:44, rod...@netbsd.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 07:31:38PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/24/2016 06:50 PM, rod...@netbsd.org wrote: > Thanks for your help. Somehow, i made it through the install after selecting > just the base utilities. The ldom has booted

Re: QLogic PTI firmware

2016-07-25 Thread alexmcwhirter
Well i'm bringing this email back from the dead, original thread can be found here https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2013/01/msg8.html In a nutshell the qlogicpti driver isn't handling traffic demands very well, the request queue will overflow and the system will panic. Just letting a

Re: liberror-perl is missing from the repo.

2016-07-08 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-08 03:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 07/08/2016 12:01 AM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Is there are reason this package is missing Yes, the package was just recently uploaded [1] and it can sometimes take some hours until all arch-all packages have been synced over to t

Re: btrfs module does not load on sparc64

2016-07-07 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-07 10:29, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: Hi! Compiled linux kernel (git version 4.7.0-rc6+) using my own kernel config file, enabling : CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_RUN_SANITY_TESTS=y CONFIG_BTRFS_DEBUG=y CONFIG_BTRFS_ASSERT=y and now I can't load btrfs module: # modprobe btrfs modprobe: ERROR: could

liberror-perl is missing from the repo.

2016-07-07 Thread alexmcwhirter
I came across this when attempting to install amavisd-new. amavis depends on libmail-dkmi-perl which depends on liberror-perl. liberror-perl is missing from the repo. liberror-perl is an "arch all" package and should run fine, so i added this to /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.ports.debian.org_debian-

Re: Sparc64 - installation on various machines

2016-07-06 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-06 13:39, Hartwig Atrops wrote: Hi all. I tried to install Sparc64 on some of my Suns - base install only. Iso-Image used: Debian-9.0-sparc64-netinst-1, 2016-05-04 Blade 1500: Success Fire V210: Success Ultra60: Success - ttyS0 only (Creator 3D does not work during installation)

Re: Kernel panic 4.7.0-rc4-sparc64-smp on systemd-udevd

2016-07-01 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-07-01 05:25, Frans van Berckel wrote: On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 04:43 -0400, Alex McWhirter wrote: At the silo boot prompt try typing "modprobe.blacklist=qla2xxx" then press enter. That will disable the on board fiber, but it may boot. Does the blade 1000 use fc-al disks? I dont remember i

Re: rsync seem to be broken on sparc64

2016-06-30 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-29 10:15, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Alex McWhirter wrote: /export/test is an entire debian minimal install made from debootstrap. I am not certain if this issue effects sun4v or not. What fs are you using ext4? I've found that it doesn't happen on btr

rsync seem to be broken on sparc64

2016-06-27 Thread alexmcwhirter
I posted about this in the kernel lists a few months ago to no avail. I see it on gentoo as well with any kernel newer than 3.18. I came across this when using lxc on sparc64. The debian template uses rsync to move the cache's rootfs to the actual container directory. I've since modified the t

Re: SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-24 Thread alexmcwhirter
Ok, so here is my todo list as of today. I'm mostly writing this out to help myself later, but if anyone has anything to add to these points let me know. 1. The installer is not respecting the debian-ports gpg key, this needs fixed or else the installer will always fail on the "Select and Inst

Re: Please upgrade your machines to sparc64

2016-06-23 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-23 04:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 06/23/2016 07:54 AM, Alex McWhirter wrote: I spend most of my time working on pure 64 bit sparc linux. simply because that's where all the work is currently being done. That being said there are noticeable speed improvements with some ap

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-20 10:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 06/20/2016 04:15 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 04:11:32PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Well, we just did a full archive rebuild of "ppc64" to be able to support ppc64 on the e5500 cores by disabling AltiVe

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-14 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-14 03:06, Philipp Kern wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 07:33:56PM +, Niels Thykier wrote: Philipp Kern: > On 2016-06-05 12:01, Niels Thykier wrote: >> * amd64, i386, armel, armhf, arm64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, >>s390x >>- *No* blockers at this time from RT, DSA no

Installer Questions

2016-06-13 Thread alexmcwhirter
Ok, so i have a new CD the works well enough. I took some time to dig through the source and i have a few questions. 1. Are we allowed to sign the sparc64 unstable repo? I'm 90% certain that this is why "select & install software" fails. Even if its signed unofficially and the signature is pus

Re: SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-12 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-12 04:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Possible, but it's doesn't explain why debian-installer still cant find the package after reprepro includeudeb unstable /path/to/udeb/*udeb reprepro includeudeb unstable /path/to/deb/*deb It's possible that i've done the reprepro update ste

Re: SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-12 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-12 03:13, Frans van Berckel wrote: Checking the repo, its always good to see it's there. http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-sparc64/main/s/sparc-util s/sparc-utils-udeb_1.9-5+sparc64_sparc64.udeb But if i am well, you are only able to download & install udeb's within the

Re: SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-11 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-11 17:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 06/11/2016 06:22 PM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: So one issue i came across with building the installer. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Unable to locate package sparc-utils-udeb It doesn't look like

Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-11 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-09 02:58, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Alex! Sorry, i didn't catch this message before the others... On 06/09/2016 06:44 AM, Alex McWhirter wrote: If it helps i have access to a decent amount of gear. E6K, V210, V215, M4000, T1000, T5120, Netra X1, Blade 150, and a V890.

Re: SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-11 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-11 12:22, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: So one issue i came across with building the installer. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Unable to locate package sparc-utils-udeb It doesn't look like that file is in the list of packages, but i can find it

Re: SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-11 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-11 09:58, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: On 2016-06-11 05:06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 06/10/2016 08:31 PM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Something that might be worth doing it having the install check loaded modules on initialization, then compare that to the loaded m

Re: SCSI Issues? Are all of my disks bad?

2016-06-11 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-11 05:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Alex! On 06/11/2016 01:27 AM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Using the qlogicpti driver i seem to get these issue when writing data to an ext4 disk. I've tried three different disks. Im on kernel 4.6.1, but it also happens on 4.5.2 K

Re: Debian Sparc 7.10.0 Install Problems

2016-06-11 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-11 05:15, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 06/10/2016 08:46 PM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Squeeze may be stable on x86, but it's quite the contrary on sparc. Your talking about a release that was so unmaintained on sparc that they had to pull the plug on it afterwards.Squeez

Re: SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-11 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-11 05:06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 06/10/2016 08:31 PM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Something that might be worth doing it having the install check loaded modules on initialization, then compare that to the loaded modules before finalizing. If any new modules have show

Re: SCSI Issues? Are all of my disks bad?

2016-06-10 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-10 20:17, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: On 2016-06-10 19:27, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Using the qlogicpti driver i seem to get these issue when writing data to an ext4 disk. I've tried three different disks. Im on kernel 4.6.1, but it also happens on 4.5.2 [ 700.648449] scs

Re: SCSI Issues? Are all of my disks bad?

2016-06-10 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-10 19:27, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Using the qlogicpti driver i seem to get these issue when writing data to an ext4 disk. I've tried three different disks. Im on kernel 4.6.1, but it also happens on 4.5.2 [ 700.648449] scsi_io_completion: 18 callbacks suppressed [ 700.714696

SCSI Issues? Are all of my disks bad?

2016-06-10 Thread alexmcwhirter
Using the qlogicpti driver i seem to get these issue when writing data to an ext4 disk. I've tried three different disks. Im on kernel 4.6.1, but it also happens on 4.5.2 [ 700.648449] scsi_io_completion: 18 callbacks suppressed [ 700.714696] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DI

Re: Debian Sparc 7.10.0 Install Problems

2016-06-10 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-10 16:55, Chris wrote: On 06/10/16 11:26, Hermann Lauer wrote: Hello Chris, On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:00:25AM +, Chris wrote: I know Debian 7 is unsupported on Sparc and that bugs won't be fixed, but I don't care. Once the OS is installed and stable, I really don't need or expe

Re: Debian Sparc 7.10.0 Install Problems

2016-06-10 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-10 07:00, Chris wrote: Warning, long reply, may need coffee :-)... I know Debian 7 is unsupported on Sparc and that bugs won't be fixed, but I don't care. Once the OS is installed and stable, I really don't need or expect support or patches. Apart from adding a few packages, nothing

Re: SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-10 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-10 04:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 06/10/2016 03:55 AM, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Adding a note to point D, the modules are there but not loaded. Doing a "modprobe sunesp" then running the installer will find the cdrom. Where do we determine what modules to load at

Re: SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-09 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-09 22:15, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: On 2016-06-09 21:55, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: On 2016-06-09 18:41, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Here are some areas i intend to work on, any info / comments on the implementation of these would be appreciated. A. ZFS Modules shoul

Re: SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-09 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-09 21:55, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: On 2016-06-09 18:41, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Here are some areas i intend to work on, any info / comments on the implementation of these would be appreciated. A. ZFS Modules should not be loaded by the installer unless explicitly cho

Re: SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-09 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-09 18:41, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: Here are some areas i intend to work on, any info / comments on the implementation of these would be appreciated. A. ZFS Modules should not be loaded by the installer unless explicitly chosen by the user. ZFS works on most sparc64 boxes, but

SPARC Issues Open for Conjecture

2016-06-09 Thread alexmcwhirter
Here are some areas i intend to work on, any info / comments on the implementation of these would be appreciated. A. ZFS Modules should not be loaded by the installer unless explicitly chosen by the user. ZFS works on most sparc64 boxes, but not all of them. Especially the older sbus machin

Re: Debian Sparc 7.10.0 Install Problems

2016-06-09 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-06-09 05:19, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Alex! On 06/09/2016 09:12 AM, Alex McWhirter wrote: How "new" does a system have to be in order to meet these requirements. T-5 machines are probably not too hard to come by, but the starting price of a T-7 machine is around 40K USD IIR