Thank you, Adrian. These are not stupid questions at all :) I have booted the right kernel, updated the initrd, the firmware was there, etc. Patch was applied with the usual "patch -p1 < patch" method. Two chunks patched. Looked ok.
I will contact Meelis Roos and will keep you all posted here. It would be great if we could get this working. Kind Regards, -Kevin On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:34 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < [email protected]> 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? > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > I applied the following patch to a vanilla 4.9.0 kernel, and it > > > didn't work either. > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6533041/ > > This very much looks like the root of the cause. Are you sure you > properly applied and booted the right kernel? Sorry for asking stupid > questions, but I have made similar mistakes in the past myself, so > sometimes this cannot be ruled out :). > > > > If anyone has any ideas, i would greatly appreciate their input, as > > > it would be nice to use the controller given that i just got a batch > > > of disks to use with the built in backplane. > > > > I am open for new ideas as well. > > I would talk Meelis Roos who wrote the above patch. He probably has > some insight. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
