Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-03-01 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 27/02/15 22:45, Karel Gardas wrote: Hi Mark, another report, so when not using virtio for drive I'm able to compile few haskell packages which is about a week or so of run. I've seen just one issue when the compilation stopped for about 22 hours and then continued well. Anyway, as

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-02-27 Thread Karel Gardas
Hi Mark, another report, so when not using virtio for drive I'm able to compile few haskell packages which is about a week or so of run. I've seen just one issue when the compilation stopped for about 22 hours and then continued well. Anyway, as you are dealing with SPARC/Qemu, I'd like to

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-31 Thread Karel Gardas
Hi Mark, so no, I've attempt to reinstall debian 7.8 on bigger qcow2 image and while doing this I've also changed drive from -hda to -drive file=debian.img,if=virt and with this I've not been able to install since it locks up during Select and install software at 61% Configuring

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-26 Thread Karel Gardas
Hi Mark, I've kept running qemu-sparc64 with debian 7.7 and was compiling new GHC compiler there. It now failed on not enough space on a drive so at least I'm reporting that even after 300 hours of hard work, the thing is still running. Now I'll have a look if I'm somehow able to grow the

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-26 Thread Karel Gardas
Hi Bob, actually your advice is very good since indeed GNU as also supports Sun as syntax so I'll keep just Sun's and clean the code a little bit. Thanks! Karel On 01/12/15 01:19 AM, Bob Bib wrote: FYI: the issue is that Solaris switched to Sun's asm which does have different syntax than

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-14 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 14/01/15 06:34, Karel Gardas wrote: On 01/13/15 10:24 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 12/01/15 15:12, Karel Gardas wrote: Hi Mark, it's great that you mention this. Indeed, for Solaris 11 I'm using T2000, for sparc/sparc64-linux (Debian 7.x) I've decided to give a try to Qemu 2.2

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-13 Thread Karel Gardas
On 01/13/15 10:24 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 12/01/15 15:12, Karel Gardas wrote: Hi Mark, it's great that you mention this. Indeed, for Solaris 11 I'm using T2000, for sparc/sparc64-linux (Debian 7.x) I've decided to give a try to Qemu 2.2 SPARC64 emulation. First time I've not been lucky

Re: Heavy IO hangs [was: Re: Debian/SPARC[64]]

2015-01-13 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 12/01/15 23:24, Sébastien Bernard wrote: Hello, I found both machines I own (V240) prone to lockup. I had the freeze dump in the alom console. It's related to perf counters and plagued the SPARC kernel since 2.6.32. Cheers Seb Oh that's very interesting (and also matches some other

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-13 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 12/01/15 15:12, Karel Gardas wrote: Hi Mark, it's great that you mention this. Indeed, for Solaris 11 I'm using T2000, for sparc/sparc64-linux (Debian 7.x) I've decided to give a try to Qemu 2.2 SPARC64 emulation. First time I've not been lucky with network (ne2k-pci not working) but

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-12 Thread Karel Gardas
On 01/12/15 01:19 AM, Bob Bib wrote: (BTW, we can also ask Gentoo about the current state of its SPARC support). That's indeed a good remark. Karel: FYI: the issue is that Solaris switched to Sun's asm which does have different syntax than GNU asm. So to preserve compatibility with GNU or

Heavy IO hangs [was: Re: Debian/SPARC[64]]

2015-01-12 Thread Hermann Lauer
Hello Mark, On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:32:41PM +, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: I've been spending time working on the SPARC64 emulation on QEMU and can confirm that the latest QEMU 2.2 release is good enough boot, install and run all of Debian squeeze/wheezy, NetBSD and OpenBSD in -nographic

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-12 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 12/01/15 08:32, Karel Gardas wrote: On 01/12/15 01:19 AM, Bob Bib wrote: (BTW, we can also ask Gentoo about the current state of its SPARC support). That's indeed a good remark. Karel: FYI: the issue is that Solaris switched to Sun's asm which does have different syntax than GNU

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-12 Thread Fred Beumer
Gents, Where can I get a good image for my SParc V2000 mahice? and which distibution is the best fot this to run on? Greetings Fred On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Karel Gardas karel.gar...@centrum.cz wrote: On 01/12/15 01:19 AM, Bob Bib wrote: (BTW, we can also ask Gentoo about the

Re: Heavy IO hangs [was: Re: Debian/SPARC[64]]

2015-01-12 Thread Sébastien Bernard
Le 12/01/2015 15:09, Hermann Lauer a écrit : on a Sun Enterprise 250 UP Machine I found my heavy IO issue (dd if=dev/zero of=/dev/sdx hangs the machine sooner or later) fixed in the Vanilla 3.17 Kernel - see my experiences on http://www.spinics.net/lists/sparclinux/msg13158.html. But later on

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-12 Thread Bob Bib
2014-01-12, Karel Gardas: Anyway, it looks like Linux is really not well supported on SPARC anymore. Where are those times when Jakub Jelinek done his first UltraLinux in 90s I would prefer to say it's _still_ not supported well; let's hope for more active development:

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-11 Thread Bob Bib
Hello Karel and Joachim, 2014-01-09, Karel Gardas: I'm curious what's the status of Debian or general Linux on SPARC or SPARC64. I've read that Debian removed SPARC port from testing/unstable in 2014 so I'm curious if I shall deal with compatiblity issues between Solaris/Linux or not at

Re: Debian/SPARC[64]

2015-01-09 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear Karel, Am Freitag, den 09.01.2015, 18:47 +0100 schrieb Karel Gardas: sorry to disturb you, but very slowly I'm working on fixing some issues in SPARC NCG for Solaris and I'm curious what's the status of Debian or general Linux on SPARC or SPARC64. I've read that Debian removed SPARC