On 09/06/2017 08:40 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> For some reason the CD building process is omitting several packages >> that should be included. I have not yet figured out what the problem >> is. Still investigating. > > Many thanks for your hard work on this.
FWIW, I have found the issue and the new images are ready. I'm currently waiting to get write permissions to upload them here: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/ > In the meantime I tried to boot the earlier mentioned installer image also > on a PRIMEPOWER 250 with SPARC64 V+ CPUs, just to check if the used Linux > kernel > boots the machine - the missing SILO installer wouldn't be a problem during > this state. Interesting. > After the previous testing I came to the conclusion that Linux seems to not > support > Fujitsu's SPARC64 CPUs (as per [1], "Note that Fujitsu's SPARC64 CPUs used > in PRIMEPOWER family of servers are not supported due to lack of support in > the Linux kernel. "), although it came pretty far for a "lack of support in > the > Linux kernel". But as SPARC64 V and V+ are listed on [2] and the mentioned > info > is from the Wheezy manual so maybe outdated, I again tried to boot with the > latest image available. I have never tried to install Debian sparc64 on any non-Sun/Oracle machine so I can't really tell you anything. > [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64#Installing_the_Debian_SPARC64_Port We should probably ask the person who wrote this wiki page. > But sadly the machine also crashes early (log below), just like with the > previous installer image I tested. Should this actually work? No idea. I would suggest taking this to the sparclinux LKML and ask the kernel folks. They will know more. Maybe it's just a matter of adjusting the kernel configuration. Maybe we need to create a different kernel flavour for these machines, who knows? Either way, this is something I can't do a alone. 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
