Re: E10k porting efforts

2008-02-20 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 15:02 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote: Hi all, Are there any public E10k porting efforts ? There is currently no hardware driver for the serial console, and I read that people from RedHat are working on it. I could also arrange accounts on the SSP machine if people

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Aurora SPARC Linux Build 2.99 (Beta 2 for 3.0)

2007-12-01 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 04:12 -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Tom \spot\ Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:28:55 -0500 - Smartd seems to make systems using the esp.ko SCSI driver very very unhappy. If your system is esp based, we highly recommend that you disable

[ANNOUNCE] Aurora SPARC Linux Build 2.99 (Beta 2 for 3.0)

2007-11-30 Thread Tom spot Callaway
The Aurora SPARC Linux project is proud to finally drag Build 2.99 kicking and screaming into the light. Took us long enough, huh? Beta 1 was in April. Barring some sort of miracle, Aurora 3.0 will be the last sparc32 supporting release. So, if you're still clinging to your sparc32 systems,

Icedtea for Linux_sparc (was Re: [Aurora-sparc-user] Linux vs. Solaris)

2007-11-13 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 10:12 -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote: Not sure as icedtea took care of whatever downloads it required... The only requirement I saw was the latest RH gcj with generics extension... When I installed this under Fedora 7 - its just downloaded and built everything it needed.

Re: Hardware query: Analyx ADDA-1418

2007-10-23 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 23:54 +1000, Julian Calaby wrote: So, my queries: 1. Has anyone seen this card (or any similar to it) before? 2. Is there any remote possibility that you could tell me what it does? / what it's useful for? It's a multifunction data acquisition card. A fair amount of

Re: LTP results on 2.6.23 sparc32

2007-10-23 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 00:10 +0100, Martin Habets wrote: Here's a summary of the Linux Test Project run on the latest sparc git tree. I'm focussing on the blocking tests first, but it's slow going. Test systems: palantir9 SS20, 2x ROSS Hypersparc, 320MB palantir13SS10, 2x

Bug: semctl failures on sparc64

2007-10-02 Thread Tom spot Callaway
I've been trying to track down why postgresql has been failing to run its tests when built for sparc64, and working with Tom Lane, we've generated an independent test case showing that the failure seems to be in the kernel. The test case is attached: bash-3.2# gcc -m32 -o semtest32 semtest.c

Re: sun4v oops

2007-08-22 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 13:39 -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Tom \spot\ Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:31:58 -0400 Got this oops with the attached config very quickly after init, threw me back to the prom. Firmware is fully updated on the box, latest SILO too

Re: Sun4c interrupt controller - Sun4d relevance

2007-08-12 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 20:23 +0100, Chris Newport wrote: Last Solaris support for sun4d was Solaris 2.8 so all of the code will be there in 2.6 somewhere. Maybe it is just a special case within sun4m with a few extra drivers, or maybe the code has not been released. The SS1000 is

Re: [PATCH]: Better serial console identification

2007-06-12 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 16:56 -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Tom \spot\ Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:12:58 -0500 So, while I certainly don't disagree with your findings, this is not the resolution to the problem. Thanks for double checking everything Tom. I'm

Re: [RFT] [SPARC] Emulate cmpxchg like parisc

2007-05-25 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 22:00 -0700, David Miller wrote: Sparc 32-bit barely has PCI let alone 3D graphics cards. If it's a build issue, simply disallow DRM to be turned on for SPARC32. I was really wondering about this one. I'd assumed DRM was already conditionalized out for sparc32. ~spot

Re: [PATCH]: Better serial console identification

2007-05-24 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 00:35 -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Tom \spot\ Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 16:56:59 -0500 On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 14:27 -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Tom \spot\ Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:04:02 -0500 Just

Re: [PATCH]: Better serial console identification

2007-05-23 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 13:30 -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 14:03 -0700, David Miller wrote: If folks could test out the following and report any regressions, especially on sparc32, I'd really appreciate it. I intend to push this to Linus and -stable after it gets

Re: [PATCH]: Better serial console identification

2007-05-23 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 14:15 -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Tom \spot\ Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:04:02 -0500 Just for kicks, I tried passing esp_bus_reset_settle=10, but it doesn't change the result at all. I also grabbed a log with esp_debug=2047, that log

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Rework ptep_set_access_flags and fix sun4c

2007-05-22 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 08:59 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Well, I don't know which is why I'm waiting for Tom Callaway to test. Davem mentioned update_mmu_cache only though when we discussed the problem initially. Mark already tested it and said it worked for him. This is sufficient

Re: XVR-500 support in XVR-2500 driver?

2007-05-07 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 14:03 -0700, David Miller wrote: From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 13:54:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Meelis Roos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 23:21:44 +0300 (EEST) The newly merged XVR-500 and XVR-2500 drivers both seem to have

Re: vm changes from linux-2.6.14 to linux-2.6.15

2007-04-29 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:02 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: Hi, Does any one have or know of a good reference that would help me in identifing the cause of a CPU soft lockup that apears to be related to changes in the vertual memory handling between these two versions of the kernel? Have

Re: [TESTERS NEEDED]: Rewritten ESP driver

2007-04-17 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 01:29 -0700, David Miller wrote: The sense looks good, the device is just saying that it has been reset too recently. The extended sense codes are 0x29 and 0x02, but the scsi scan only retries the INQUIRY if the extended sense codes are 0x29 and 0x00 for whatever

Re: [TESTERS NEEDED]: Rewritten ESP driver

2007-04-15 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 19:24 -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Tom \spot\ Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:54:10 -0500 This patch is already in my tree. The kernel base is patch-2.6.21-rc6-git5. I'm not netbooting these kernels either. Straight boot from firmware

Re: [TESTERS NEEDED]: Rewritten ESP driver

2007-04-14 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 22:01 -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Tom \spot\ Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:10:46 -0500 Here you go. Doesn't seem to make much difference. The only difference I see is this: ESP: tgt[0] lun[0] scsi_cmd [ 12 00 00 00 24 c2 ] I need

[PATCH] minor inline fix for sparc64

2007-04-13 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
While building a test kernel for the new esp driver (against git-current), I hit this bug. Trivial fix, put the inline declaration in the right place. :) Signed-off-by: Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.20.sparc64/arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_iommu.c.BAD 2007-04-13 12:35:59.0

Re: [TESTERS NEEDED]: Rewritten ESP driver

2007-04-13 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
Tried the new esp driver on an SparcStation 4, with not much luck. If you are willing to tackle this, and want esp_debug, please let me know. SCSI subsystem initialized Loading sd_mod.ko module Loading scsi_transport_spi.ko module Loading esp.ko module scsi0 : esp esp: esp0 found at /[EMAIL

[ANNOUNCE] Aurora SPARC Linux Build 2.98 (Beta 1 for 3.0)

2007-04-02 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
The Aurora SPARC Linux project is proud to finally present Build 2.98 to the world. This is a BETA release, for what will become 3.0. Here are some of the key features in this release: - Fedora Core 6 based tree of packages (some things are newer) - Support for Niagara hardware (Sun T1000,

More sparc32 esp failures

2007-03-26 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
This one doesn't even have a CDROM. SPARCstation 4, No Keyboard ROM Rev. 2.24, 160 MB memory installed sd 0:0:3:0: Attached scsi disk sda esp0: Aborting command esp0: dumping state esp0: dma -- cond_rega6400310 addrf00106c1 esp0: SW [sreg11 sstep04 ireg18] esp0: HW reread [sreg01 sstepc4 ireg00]

Re: sparc32 SMP debugging advice needed

2007-03-24 Thread Tom \spot\ Callaway
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 17:42 -0400, Robert Reif wrote: Any advice on how to approach fixing these issues? I can test patches. Sadly, it seems that in the case of sparc32, no one who is willing is able, and no one who is able is willing. There is no maintainer, Dave Miller isn't willing to take

Re: sparc32 esp connected CDROM failures

2007-03-16 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 18:01 -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Tom 'spot' Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:33:09 -0500 While this isn't technically a blocker for Aurora, its a rather big annoyance. Not sure where to look on how to fix this one, but very willing and able

Re: sparc32 esp connected CDROM failures

2007-03-16 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 16:32 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:52 -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Tom 'spot' Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:47:00 -0500 The ioctl error repeats once more in the sequence...but the CDROM seems to work ok

Re: [PATCH]: Fix for SB100/SB150 bootup hangs

2007-03-05 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 01:11 -0800, David Miller wrote: Anyone with a SunBlade100 or SunBlade150 trying to use kernels built with gcc-4.1.x or later and seeing hangs should try out this patch. Confirmed that it works on the Aurora side, atyfb is working again on the SB100. Thanks a lot for

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-29 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:08 +0200, Meelis Roos wrote: Adding proper support for the e10K console would be a nice easy sparc64 kernel project for someone who wants to get involved and has access to such a machine. Are the any specs available, or is it just reverse engineering? This is the

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-29 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:34 -0800, David Miller wrote: Ignore values 3, 4, and 5 for now, there is a way to redirect console output over the network with the SSP but we'll not support that yet. Maybe I'm confused here, but the only way I've been able to get to the OpenBoot console has been via

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-27 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 12:17 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Looking at init/main.c: if (sys_open((const char __user *) /dev/console, O_RDWR, 0) 0) printk(KERN_WARNING Warning: unable to open an initial console.\n); That looks almost like a bug :-/ /dev/console will decay into a pointer

Re: Linux on Sun e10k

2007-01-26 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 17:17 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 00:12 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 16:05 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 17:25 +0200, Meelis Roos wrote: TS Warning: unable to open an initial console

Re: [2.6.19.1] ESP regression ?

2007-01-05 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 10:47 +0100, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Hello, Some trouble again with ESP DMA and the 2.6.19 kernel ? With very high disk load (raid reconstruction or apt-get dist-upgrade), I can seen ESP DMA error on a SS20 workstation. This trouble has been fixed in 2.6.18.

Re: [2.6.19.1] ESP regression ?

2007-01-05 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:45 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: For what it is worth, I'm not actually able to get esp.ko (Aurora builds esp as a module) working at all on any sparc32 systems (immediate testing on ss4 and ss20). Building the SCSI and esp components into the kernel does

Re: Xorg doesn't work on the cg3

2005-02-12 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
the other cg3 patch to make the framebuffer console work, and the sbuslib patch to make cg6 work in X. Both of these are in my previous post on this thread. ~spot --- Tom spot Callaway tcallawa(a)redhat*com LCA, RHCE Red Hat Sales Engineer || Aurora Linux Project Leader If you are going through hell

Re: Badness in map_area_pte

2005-02-05 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 22:07 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:37:24 -0600 Tom 'spot' Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 20:29 -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: I suspected the same. Perhaps time to brew up another BTFIXUP. I tried to whip

Re: Xorg does not work on sparc32 in 2.6 (except on cg14)

2005-02-04 Thread Tom 'spot' Callaway
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 17:15 -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 04:40:27PM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: Resending, since I think Evolution ate it. Apologies if this shows up twice. With a working pte_read, and VMALLOC_START set sanely, the next major bug