Hi all. There seem to be quite a few problems with the sparc port, and I'm more than happy to help - but this list seems to be almost dead. No one with an 'air of authority' is around here...
I see the following problems with my SS2: 1) The boot disks don't work. Not an issue for me, but important to some people. 2) tftpboot.img has to be null-padded to work. 3) 'ldd' doesn't work - and possibly other components of ld-linux.so. Random segfaults are probably related to this. This makes packaged compilation tricky, since dpkg-shlibs won't work. 4) There are problems with the virtual console/X code. X sometimes 'steals' a vc for no apparent reason. Sometimes keymaps get messed up too. 5) We have no libg++272 - which means that we can't compile some packages, notable menu. 6) zsh segfaults (!! - maybe this is problem 3 reincarnated) So, I think there are some things we could do with here. I would like to see a debian-sparc web page, and a debian-sparc FAQ. I will happily put these together. I would like to know where I'm suppose to report architecture bugs like 1) and 2). boot-floppies? But presumably the boot-floppies maintainer is an i386 person... I would like to know who put together our current libc6 support and ldso support. Presumably 3) above belongs to one of these, and it may even be upstream, for all I know... But it's very quiet in here... Cheers, Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]