On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 10:34 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:02:56AM +0100, Frans van Berckel wrote: > > And yes, because Debian sparc64 runs very well with a 3.16 kernel- > > image. The sparc backported one to be clear.
> > I extracted the package and copied it manually into the new rootfs. > > And updated the silo.conf. > > Are you talking about the driver or the firmware? The driver (including the sparc kernel, true). > > But maybe we just have to build a sparc64 package for it :-) > > No, we have to fix the actual bug. Jamming an old, unsupported kernel > into a sparc64 package is a workaround, not a fix. True, but nobody is listing. So being happy with a workaround :-) > > > I also saw your report in the mailing list archives. > > > > And a real bug post, so being able tracking it ... > > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110081 > > You should add some SPARC kernel people to the CC of this bug report > and also post this to the sparclinux kernel mailing list so you get > some attention. Sorry, but I did at least five sparclinux mailing list posts on this topic, as well. With one of them pointing to the open bug report. Thanks, Frans van Berckel
