On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:51:07AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > On Tuesday 13 April 2004 09:30, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:45:13AM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > > > Well, if it makes you feel any better, I can't get 2.6 to boot on > > > any Sun thing I've got that I've tried it on, which has only been > > > an Ultra 30, U60, and Cycle quad-proc (E450 in an U2 case) > > > Ultrasparc-II. > > > > > > Has anyone gotten a version of 2.6 to boot on any Ultrasparc > > > hardware? I've been using the latest kernel (2.6.0 through 2.6.4) > > > with the latest toolchain in testing to compile it, yet it doesn't > > > boot... the last time I tried it, it spit out a bunch of whitespace > > > to my serial console, and then froze the machine (couldn't break > > > back to OpenBoot). > > > > I have it running on all my Ultra's (and have for some time), which > > includes U2, U5, U30, SB100 and E3000. > > Ok. So, it *should* work. Do you have kernel images/packages available > somewhere? I'd like to see if I can get a known-good kernel to boot, > so I can figure out what my kernel config has wrong with it. > > Next question: Are you using the stock 2.6.x kernel from kernel.org, or > debian kernel source package, or your own tree? I'd *really like* to > get 2.6.x working on one(all) of my Ultrasparc-II's.
I've been using the stock and BK tree's. I'll see if I can get some 2.6.5 packages built. The ones I have now are 2.6.2, which is pretty old. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
