Re: Patches to update silo

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:32 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > The following series of 3 patches folds most changes in Aurora into the > current silo git repository. > > The one change I did not take over is to echo a suggestion to run silo in > the %post section of the specfile, AFAIU Fedora gui

Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions with patches

2007-05-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 14:53 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Subject: OOPS triggered by ip(8) deconfiguring a network interface > References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8491 > Submitter : Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Patch : http://marc.info

Re: How to load 2.6.22 kernel (image too large to fit ...)

2007-05-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 06:54 +0200, Krzysztof Helt wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 23:44 +0200, Krzysztof Helt wrote: > >> Hi again, > >> > >> I overcame the problem with too big kernel with the attached patch, but > >> I

Re: How to load 2.6.22 kernel (image too large to fit ...)

2007-05-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 23:44 +0200, Krzysztof Helt wrote: > Hi again, > > I overcame the problem with too big kernel with the attached patch, but > I run into another problem. Now, the silo says: > > "Your kernel cannot fit into the memory destination. This > can be resolved by recompiling the ke

Re: [PATCH] Description fix in spec file

2007-01-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:21 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > silo.spec | 10 -- > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Thanks, applied. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in

Re: Problems booting on Sun e10k

2006-12-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 22:20 +0200, Tonu Samuel wrote: > Hi! > > I have Sun Enterprise 1 and cannot make it to be friends with linux. I > had > nice success with E6500 but not with E1. There are my attempts are > logged: > > http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/sparc/gentooe10k.txt > > http://no.sp

Re: current_thread_info_reg undefined

2005-08-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:27:39PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:31:29 -0700 > > > The empty symbol warnings atleast are just a bug with > > scripts/mod/modpost.c (the patch fabbione sen

Re: current_thread_info_reg undefined

2005-08-19 Thread Ben Collins
> The warnings are actually longer (were before too): > *** Warning: "" [drivers/net/ppp_deflate.ko] undefined! > *** Warning: "" [drivers/net/ppp_deflate.ko] undefined! > *** Warning: "" [drivers/net/ppp_deflate.ko] undefined! > *** Warning: "current_thread_info_reg" [drivers/net/ppp_deflate.ko] u

Re: Desperate after upgrading OBP from 3.11 to 3.31

2005-07-09 Thread Ben Collins
lock for my Ultra. What I don't understand is how the > boot sector could get corrupted in the first place. I've also tried > putting the first partition back at 'Start = 0' now; no deal. > > Kind regards, > > Arnim > > Ben Collins wrote: > >Aft

Re: Desperate after upgrading OBP from 3.11 to 3.31

2005-07-09 Thread Ben Collins
After booting from CD, rerun the silo command. Sounds like your boot sector got corrupted, or you moved second.b on your filesystem without rerunning silo. On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 12:12:25AM +0200, A. Eijkhoudt wrote: > Hello all, > > I've upgraded my OBP from 3.11 to 3.31 and now my SUN won't bo

Re: fc-al and A5000

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Collins
00 > Morten Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > does anyone know where to find some information or know how to make my > > E4500 talk to my A5000? > > Unfortunately, you are currently out of luck. The SBUS > fc drivers are in a very poor state and don't wo

Re: Patch: SILO/first-isofs/isofs.c (Fix Sun4c)

2005-02-22 Thread Ben Collins
gt; So it looks like the sun4c / prom v0 support got broken between > 1.2.6 and 1.4.5 > > Does this point to any smoking guns ?. > > Ben Collins wrote: > > >Thanks. Committed to the repo. I'll try to get a new version out soon. > > > >As for the nex

Re: Patch: SILO/first-isofs/isofs.c (Fix Sun4c)

2005-02-22 Thread Ben Collins
Thanks. Committed to the repo. I'll try to get a new version out soon. As for the next error, it looks like it is trying to load it to the physical address of 0x0, which is a bad thing. That overwrites silo itself. So I guess there is an error in silo (not first-isofs). Check the memory_find() fu

Re: size-differences of long(userspace) / long(kernel)

2005-02-14 Thread Ben Collins
32-bit applications communicating with the kernel using standard calls like ioctl() pass through a translation layer that converts the 32-bit information into 64-bit counterparts, processes them, and converts them back again before passing them back to userspace. This is pretty common in sparc64,

Re: [atyfb] No display on Sparc Ultra 10 with kernel 2.6.10-rc2 or later

2005-02-14 Thread Ben Collins
> atyfb: atyfb_set_par > atyfb: Set Visible Mode to 640x480-8 > atyfb: Virtual resolution 640x3225, pixclock_in_ps 39751 (calculated 39751) > atyfb: Dot clock: 25 MHz > atyfb: Horizontal sync: 31 kHz > atyfb: Vertical refresh:59 Hz There's the problem right there. This is al

Re: Too big 2.6 kernels on SS5

2005-02-14 Thread Ben Collins
Kill these config options. > CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y > CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=y Pretty sure you don't need all of these framebuffers, right? > CONFIG_FB_CG3=y > CONFIG_FB_CG6=y > CONFIG_FB_TCX=y Don't need either of these. > CONFIG_PROM_CONSOLE=y > CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y Kill the 12x22, it's hu