On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:43:27AM +0100, Peter Rohrer wrote: > Last weekend I installed Debian Etch on a Sun Sparcstation 10 with 2x > Texas Instruments, Inc. - SuperSparc-(II) (50MHz) CPUs. > I found no SMP-Kernel for 32bit, the installation manual suggests to > compile one myself.
Right, we are not going to support SMP on sparc32 for etch. > I tried this (following > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/ch08s05.html), but it > failed now twice during compilation with a Segmentation fault (Output > can be found at the end of this mail). > I found an old statement from Rob Radez saying that Linux 2.6 and SMP on > sparc32 are not working at all. Is this still true, or is the problem > located between keyboard and chair? There have been some improvements on the SMP front, but it is still not ready for showtime (one of the latest examples is bug #400372 [0]). If you are interested in the progress, you can check out the archives of sparclinux mailing list [1], this question pops up periodically there. > The manual also states that sun4c is supported on Etch (it was at least > not on > sarge). I just tried to netboot the installer on my Sparcstation 2, it > starts to load, and after some time (I think when the download is > finished), the screen turns off. I don't think this is a hardware > problem, the system was running Debian Woody in the past. > > More general asked, am I wrong, or is the manual wrong/outdated? Yes, the manual is outdated (bug #389516 [2]). sun4c is not going to be supported by etch either. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gcc --version > gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19) > > > output from "fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 > kernel_image" > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > CC crypto/digest.o > CC crypto/compress.o > crypto/compress.c: In function âcrypto_init_compress_flagsâ: > crypto/compress.c:42: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault > Please submit a full bug report, > with preprocessed source if appropriate. > See <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions. > For Debian GNU/Linux specific bug reporting instructions, > see <URL:file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1/README.Bugs>. > The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. > make[2]: *** [crypto/compress.o] Error 1 > make[1]: *** [crypto] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17' > make: *** [debian/stamp-build-kernel] Error 2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.17$ Ouch. Just to confirm, what kernel was this machine running when this compilation was attempted? Is it reproducible? We definitely need to sort this out, if it's not a hardware problem. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400372 [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparc&r=1&w=2 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389516 Best regards, -- Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
