Jurij Smakov wrote:
Hi,
I've been poking the current sparc32 problems a bit, and managed to come
up with a kernel which allowed me to dist-upgrade and install KDE (over
400 megs worth of packages) successfully on my SS20 machine. Basically,
I've reverted an old cache coloring patch dating back to November 2004
[0], which was introduced to replace a hack [1], fixing DMA problems on
Hypersparc machines back then. I believe patch [0] might be causing
problems, since I can't remember any kernel including it, which worked
reliably on sparc32/Hypersparc.
The new 2.6.16 kernel deb is available at
http://www.wooyd.org/debian/kernels
I have installed it, it seems to work. I will tell you more in a few days.
Note however that I was using the unstable sparc32 kernel for weeks
without any problem, even with high load. I mean for example building a
few glibc on it.
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