I have SILO v1.4.14, but it has the git [1] patches from 2012-08-19, which includes quite a few fixes from the 2008-06-12 release. Particularly, it includes a number of ext2/ext4 boot fixes and some sun4v and sun4u boot fixes. The remaining patches after that are for "tilo" which is some kind of TFTP loader.
TL;DR - though it isn't the newest, it should be more or less up to date for bug fixes. [1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/silo.git/log/ On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Kieron Gillespie <ciaran.gilles...@gmail.com > wrote: > Well it is a good start. =D > > There are still complaints, though haven't seen the bug reports, that > modern kernel's are unstable on certain peices of hardware. Personally I > can't reproduce any of these issues, I have rolled out the latest kernel > for a while now on some of my sparc systems, my T2000 has an uptime of > about 80days and it's running wheezy but using a vanilla 3.13.9 build. > There is also some problems with the kernel hanging in the early stages of > the boot process, though once again I have not seen this. What the sparc > port needs are a couple of people to become familiar with the Debian > build process and to find major bugs report and fix them. > > I haven't checked but I think that SILO is currently a version or two > ahead of what debian is using for it's installs. That might be the issue. > > Wish I had more time to invest in this. > > -Kieron > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Patrick Baggett <baggett.patr...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> BTW, the sparc buildd looks like gcc 4-8.2-21 is successful and so is >> gcc-4.9.0-1. I've installed them from sid. Crisis averted? >> >> Patrick >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Sébastien Bernard <sbern...@nerim.net>wrote: >> >>> Le 30/04/2014 20:36, Patrick Baggett a écrit : >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Ivo De Decker <ivo.dedec...@ugent.be>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 03:42:39PM +0200, Sébastien Bernard wrote: >>>> > Indeed, the last good build seems to be gcc-4.8-4.8.2-19. >>>> > Look at the changelog for the -20 they seems to have done something >>>> on the sparc >>>> > that blocks the generation of the libraries. >>>> >>>> A number of binaries are now built by gcc-4.9 instead of gcc-4.8. As >>>> there is >>>> no build of gcc-4.9 on sparc, these binaries are missing. >>>> >>>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=gcc-4.9&arch=sparc >>>> >>>> So if you want to fix the sparc issue, you probably need to get gcc-4.9 >>>> to >>>> build there. When doing that, you need to start from a gcc-4.8 version >>>> from >>>> before the change, as newer version are not functional without the >>>> packages >>>> from gcc-4.9. >>>> >>>> ??? >>> I thought jessie was using gcc-4.8 and not gcc-4.9 >>> >>> OK, so we additionally need to look into why gcc-4.9 is not >>> installable? >>> >>> Patrick >>> >>> >>> No, we don't. Period. >>> >>> I built the gcc-4.8-4.8-19, and all the binaries are there. >>> I'm going to involve the gcc maintainer cause what they did broke >>> completely the build be it jessie or sid. >>> >>> We have libgcc1, lib64gcc1, libstdc++6, and libstdc++6 available from >>> the repositories in version 4.8.2-19. >>> But, the new builds -20 and -21 have overriden all the other packages >>> from -19 since they have been build ok. >>> So, now, we have nothing to install because gcc-base-4.8_4.8.2-20 >>> depends on libgcc1-4.8.2_4.8.2-20 which isn't build (this is the message >>> from apt-get). >>> >>> And this is not solvable, we're halfway through, with partial -19 >>> packages and missing packages -20. >>> >>> And if you think it has zero impact, think twice. The debootstrap is not >>> able to build a sid install because of this. >>> So, meanwhile, I'll setup a mini directory with the packages availables >>> (I need to remember how to setup a debian repository again). >>> >>> All in all, this broken package has blocked the complete buildd, since >>> there is no more libgcc1 and no more libstdc++ installable. >>> >>> Did I say there is no gcc-4.9 ? >>> >>> Here is the recipe for disaster for sparc. >>> >>> Seb >>> >> >> >
