Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
Hello Meelis, Perhaps of interest ... i was being hit with the qla2xxx driver panics as well on my v880. I unplugged the second FCAL loop to the backplane, and this fixed it. Perhaps this is something you could try? I have not tried on my V880 but I got similar trouble on V480. But where is the secondary loop on SB1000/E280R (having the same mainboard)? Hmm, come to think of it, there is a connector marked with double arrow, the back of mainboard but I do not think I have seen any cable that would fit there. -- Meelis Roos
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
Oracle Linux .. for Intel processors? Please ask him about Oracle Linux for Sparc. I would like to give it a try if they have it. Thanks -- Rick On May 9, 2019 5:00:52 PM EDT, Dennis Clarke wrote: >On 5/9/19 4:44 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: >>> Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade >2000 >>> should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of >>> those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. >Anyways I >>> will give that a look see and also I hope serial console works out >of >>> the box. >> >> Yes, I should try it on some sun4u too. And probably bare hardware >sun4v - >> all my sparcs run Linux natively. >> >> About Blade 1x00/2x00 and E280R: they use qla2xxx for root disks and >last >> I tried this was broken in the kernel. It may be better now but older > >> Symbios >> and newer MPT etc controllers would probably be a safer try if you >have >> them >> available. >> > >My problem is that I have way too much sparc hardware in life and no >real up to date OS to run. Sure Solaris 10 is still around and barely >supported but it is horrific for performance. I was just speaking with >an Oracle salesrep about the new 5GHz T8 and he assures me that Oracle >has Linux running there. Oracle Linux v6 and v7 run there. He says. >Well >I see Oracle Linux as just a variation on the RHEL sources. > > >-- >Dennis Clarke >RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC >UNIX and Linux spoken >GreyBeard and suspenders optional -- Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
Yes, and most homes have that plug behind the stove in the kitchen and for the dryer in the laundry room. It is easy to wire up another like this in the contact breaker panel. Cheers -- Rick On May 9, 2019 4:02:57 PM EDT, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 5/9/19 9:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> The big blocker for me is that the M4000 needs 240V power supply. >> Otherwise I would run it at home. >I thought you can get 240 volts in the US when using a two-phase >power outlet. > >Adrian > >-- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >: :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org >`. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
Hello Meelis, Perhaps of interest ... i was being hit with the qla2xxx driver panics as well on my v880. I unplugged the second FCAL loop to the backplane, and this fixed it. Perhaps this is something you could try? On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 11:03 PM Meelis Roos wrote: > > Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 > > should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of > > those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I > > will give that a look see and also I hope serial console works out of > > the box. > > Yes, I should try it on some sun4u too. And probably bare hardware sun4v - > all my sparcs run Linux natively. > > About Blade 1x00/2x00 and E280R: they use qla2xxx for root disks and last > I tried this was broken in the kernel. It may be better now but older > Symbios > and newer MPT etc controllers would probably be a safer try if you have > them > available. > > -- > Meelis Roos > >
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I will give that a look see and also I hope serial console works out of the box. Yes, I should try it on some sun4u too. And probably bare hardware sun4v - all my sparcs run Linux natively. About Blade 1x00/2x00 and E280R: they use qla2xxx for root disks and last I tried this was broken in the kernel. It may be better now but older Symbios and newer MPT etc controllers would probably be a safer try if you have them available. -- Meelis Roos
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 4:44 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I will give that a look see and also I hope serial console works out of the box. Yes, I should try it on some sun4u too. And probably bare hardware sun4v - all my sparcs run Linux natively. About Blade 1x00/2x00 and E280R: they use qla2xxx for root disks and last I tried this was broken in the kernel. It may be better now but older Symbios and newer MPT etc controllers would probably be a safer try if you have them available. My problem is that I have way too much sparc hardware in life and no real up to date OS to run. Sure Solaris 10 is still around and barely supported but it is horrific for performance. I was just speaking with an Oracle salesrep about the new 5GHz T8 and he assures me that Oracle has Linux running there. Oracle Linux v6 and v7 run there. He says. Well I see Oracle Linux as just a variation on the RHEL sources. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
Re: I have to ask .. has anyone tried SPARC T7 ? SPARC S7? SPARC T8?
On 5/9/19 4:20 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/9/19 10:18 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: I had some S7-2 units in a project and was fairly impressed with what they could do. Of all things they were MySql servers and with fibre attached storage they were really impressive units. Just curious if anyone has seen or tried this sort of hardware with a Debian installer image. I only know of Oracle folk who have these machines and they told me that Debian installs just fine inside an LDOM on these machines. Ah, good to know. If I see another project with that sort of hardware then I would snag a unit for testing. I would take an S7 in a heartbeat, but they are currently too expensive. They are the lightweight T7 sort. Regardless, not competitive with Xeon. The new SPARC T8 looks to be a supercomputer monster slayer. With the older M-series gear I was running LACP over bonded 10Gbit for storage and that worked very very well. The real issue was that the price was simply over the top for trivial implementations and most managers just don't "see" the value in long term rock solid stability. The S7 units were used as backend transaction processors and MySql ran amazingly well there. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
Re: I have to ask .. has anyone tried SPARC T7 ? SPARC S7? SPARC T8?
On 5/9/19 10:18 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I had some S7-2 units in a project and was fairly impressed with what > they could do. Of all things they were MySql servers and with fibre > attached storage they were really impressive units. > > Just curious if anyone has seen or tried this sort of hardware with a > Debian installer image. I only know of Oracle folk who have these machines and they told me that Debian installs just fine inside an LDOM on these machines. I would take an S7 in a heartbeat, but they are currently too expensive. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 4:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/9/19 9:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: The big blocker for me is that the M4000 needs 240V power supply. Otherwise I would run it at home. I thought you can get 240 volts in the US when using a two-phase power outlet. Well a UPS is needed also. So an APC5000 series or similar as well as the 240 volt supply. No matter how I slice it there is a bucket of money to spend to get the same performance a ninety dollar ASUS arm7 Tinkerboard can do. However 256G of memory and 16 processor cores at 2.66GHz is real hard to get anywhere else. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 9 May 2019, at 20:31, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > On 5/9/19 18:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the >> following Debian Ports architectures: >> [...] >> * sparc64 >> >> I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as netboot images [2]. >> >> Please test those images and report back over the mailing list for >> the corresponding architecture. >> >> Known issues: >> [...] >> * sparc64 >>- Installation over a serial console is currently broken >> on sparc64 due to a bug in the rootskel package >> (can also be considered a kernel bug), see: #926539. >> Use any image before 2019-04-06 as workaround. > > Looks like this doesn't affect sun4u machines, at least this ISO worked > for my v245 using the serial console without any problems. Nice work! :-D Yes; it's an issue with how Linux exposes sun4v hypervisor consoles. James
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 9:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > The big blocker for me is that the M4000 needs 240V power supply. > Otherwise I would run it at home. I thought you can get 240 volts in the US when using a two-phase power outlet. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 9:55 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 > should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of > those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I > will give that a look see and also I hope serial console works out of > the box. Unless you are installing inside an LDOM, your serial console will be fine. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 9:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> - Installation over a serial console is currently broken >> on sparc64 due to a bug in the rootskel package >> (can also be considered a kernel bug), see: #926539. >> Use any image before 2019-04-06 as workaround. > > Looks like this doesn't affect sun4u machines, at least this ISO worked > for my v245 using the serial console without any problems. Nice work! :-D To be clear: This affects machines using the ttyHV serial console driver that is used for LDOMs. This does not affect machines using other serial console drivers. It's a bug in the ttyHV driver and I'm still trying to convince upstream to fix it. > Just one odd thing: I didn't see any kernel messages when booting from > the installer disc. I assumed that there might be a `quiet` in the > kernel command line, but editing the GRUB menu options showed no > arguments for the kernel command line at all for the "default" option, > just "boot_one" IIRC. This is in line with all the other architectures. The GRUB configuration comes from there. Best would be to read the installation manual for ppc64el to see if there are any options documented which allow verbose booting. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 3:33 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: [2] also has some further reading about this topic. Maybe you get in touch with Meelis Roos, who started a thread titled "Adding support for Fujitsu SPARC64 machines?" on the linux-sparc mailing list (see [3]) some years ago. Maybe this can be revived. [3]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc=142067252101925=2 I'm actually here on this list. But no, nothing came out of my plan - because of lack of time from my side and the student going away. I still have the PP450 wired up and ready to run if power is turned on from xscf, so if there is someone else taking it on, I can offer PP450 access. M4000, PP650 and PP250 are away in storage. The big blocker for me is that the M4000 needs 240V power supply. Otherwise I would run it at home. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
[2] also has some further reading about this topic. Maybe you get in touch with Meelis Roos, who started a thread titled "Adding support for Fujitsu SPARC64 machines?" on the linux-sparc mailing list (see [3]) some years ago. Maybe this can be revived. [3]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc=142067252101925=2 I'm actually here on this list. But no, nothing came out of my plan - because of lack of time from my side and the student going away. I still have the PP450 wired up and ready to run if power is turned on from xscf, so if there is someone else taking it on, I can offer PP450 access. M4000, PP650 and PP250 are away in storage. -- Meelis Roos
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 3:31 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Adrian, On 5/9/19 18:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: [...] * sparc64 I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as netboot images [2]. Please test those images and report back over the mailing list for the corresponding architecture. Known issues: [...] * sparc64 - Installation over a serial console is currently broken on sparc64 due to a bug in the rootskel package (can also be considered a kernel bug), see: #926539. Use any image before 2019-04-06 as workaround. Looks like this doesn't affect sun4u machines, at least this ISO worked for my v245 using the serial console without any problems. Nice work! :-D Just one odd thing: I didn't see any kernel messages when booting from the installer disc. I assumed that there might be a `quiet` in the kernel command line, but editing the GRUB menu options showed no arguments for the kernel command line at all for the "default" option, just "boot_one" IIRC. Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade 2000 should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. Anyways I will give that a look see and also I hope serial console works out of the box. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
Hi Adrian, On 5/9/19 18:24, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: [...] * sparc64 I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as netboot images [2]. Please test those images and report back over the mailing list for the corresponding architecture. Known issues: [...] * sparc64 - Installation over a serial console is currently broken on sparc64 due to a bug in the rootskel package (can also be considered a kernel bug), see: #926539. Use any image before 2019-04-06 as workaround. Looks like this doesn't affect sun4u machines, at least this ISO worked for my v245 using the serial console without any problems. Nice work! :-D Just one odd thing: I didn't see any kernel messages when booting from the installer disc. I assumed that there might be a `quiet` in the kernel command line, but editing the GRUB menu options showed no arguments for the kernel command line at all for the "default" option, just "boot_one" IIRC. Cheers, Frank
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
It can't be that that much of an issue, because OpenBSD runs on these machines (according to [4] and my tests on serveral PRIMEPOWER 250s). And for the Linux kernel you can actually see some Linux kernel messages before the machine experiences a red state exception... [4]: http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html I avoid the openbsd people and try to just look to freebsd : https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233579 Which actually is making good progress in the IBM Power9 world on the TALOS as well as on ye old ppc64 PowerMac units and sparc is in progress also. With ZFS everywhere. Anyways, that is well off topic. dc
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 20:01, Dennis Clarke wrote: I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? Or even M4000 ? I'm starting to wonder if my mails about ... No I am not ignoring you. I simply didn't recall over my coffee this morning. I have not looked at linux on sparc in ... nearly forever. Possibly an actual forever. There is no reason to think about it. Now I see from my hardware list on hand there is even less reason to even bother testing. Thanks for listening. Please don't mind, I was just a little upset, as I assumed my mails on this topic were just wasted. [2] also has some further reading about this topic. Maybe you get in touch with Meelis Roos, who started a thread titled "Adding support for Fujitsu SPARC64 machines?" on the linux-sparc mailing list (see [3]) some years ago. Maybe this can be revived. [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64#Installing_the_Debian_SPARC64_Port [3]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc=142067252101925=2 I appreciate your patience and perserverance. I seem to have way way too many little irons in the fire and too many machines running to recall all the bits about all of them. I don't think I am alone in that experience. In my mind an Oracle M4000 with 256G of memory and a stack of processor cores is a terrible waste. Baffles me that it can not run with even some basic sparc v9 type mode. Regardless the devices are most likely an issue also. It can't be that that much of an issue, because OpenBSD runs on these machines (according to [4] and my tests on serveral PRIMEPOWER 250s). And for the Linux kernel you can actually see some Linux kernel messages before the machine experiences a red state exception... [4]: http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 1:52 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 5/9/19 19:42, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 1:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: * alpha * hppa * ia64 * m68k * powerpc * ppc64 * sh4 * sparc64 I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? Or even M4000 ? I'm starting to wonder if my mails about ... No I am not ignoring you. I simply didn't recall over my coffee this morning. I have not looked at linux on sparc in ... nearly forever. Possibly an actual forever. There is no reason to think about it. Now I see from my hardware list on hand there is even less reason to even bother testing. Thanks for listening. Please don't mind, I was just a little upset, as I assumed my mails on this topic were just wasted. [2] also has some further reading about this topic. Maybe you get in touch with Meelis Roos, who started a thread titled "Adding support for Fujitsu SPARC64 machines?" on the linux-sparc mailing list (see [3]) some years ago. Maybe this can be revived. [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64#Installing_the_Debian_SPARC64_Port [3]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc=142067252101925=2 I appreciate your patience and perserverance. I seem to have way way too many little irons in the fire and too many machines running to recall all the bits about all of them. I don't think I am alone in that experience. In my mind an Oracle M4000 with 256G of memory and a stack of processor cores is a terrible waste. Baffles me that it can not run with even some basic sparc v9 type mode. Regardless the devices are most likely an issue also. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 19:42, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 1:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: * alpha * hppa * ia64 * m68k * powerpc * ppc64 * sh4 * sparc64 I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? Or even M4000 ? I'm starting to wonder if my mails about ... No I am not ignoring you. I simply didn't recall over my coffee this morning. I have not looked at linux on sparc in ... nearly forever. Possibly an actual forever. There is no reason to think about it. Now I see from my hardware list on hand there is even less reason to even bother testing. Thanks for listening. Please don't mind, I was just a little upset, as I assumed my mails on this topic were just wasted. [2] also has some further reading about this topic. Maybe you get in touch with Meelis Roos, who started a thread titled "Adding support for Fujitsu SPARC64 machines?" on the linux-sparc mailing list (see [3]) some years ago. Maybe this can be revived. [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64#Installing_the_Debian_SPARC64_Port [3]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc=142067252101925=2 Cheers, Frank
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 1:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: * alpha * hppa * ia64 * m68k * powerpc * ppc64 * sh4 * sparc64 I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? Or even M4000 ? I'm starting to wonder if my mails about ... No I am not ignoring you. I simply didn't recall over my coffee this morning. I have not looked at linux on sparc in ... nearly forever. Possibly an actual forever. There is no reason to think about it. Now I see from my hardware list on hand there is even less reason to even bother testing. Thanks for listening. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
Hi Dennis, On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: * alpha * hppa * ia64 * m68k * powerpc * ppc64 * sh4 * sparc64 I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? Or even M4000 ? I'm starting to wonder if my mails about "Linux not working on Fujitsu's SPARC64 V(+) and possibly later processors" don't reach you or if you just ignore them. E.g. I sent [1] directly to you and the debian-sparc list about a week ago and seem to remember that we "talked" about this same topic already last year. Nevertheless, maybe you just try if your Mx000s boot the installer ISO, at least GRUB should work. [1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2019/05/msg0.html Cheers, Frank
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 6:34 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> I have never touched any of those machines, but from what I know some of >> the Fujitsu machines aren't supported by the Linux kernel. > > Oh dear. Well, you can try whether it boots. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 12:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/9/19 6:29 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? Or even M4000 ? I have never touched any of those machines, but from what I know some of the Fujitsu machines aren't supported by the Linux kernel. Oh dear. Currently I have a machine sitting around doing a lot of nothing all day and running Solaris 10 : jupiter # jupiter # uname -a SunOS jupiter 5.10 Generic_150400-65 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise jupiter # psrinfo -pv The physical processor has 8 virtual processors (0-7) SPARC64-VII+ (portid 1024 impl 0x7 ver 0xa1 clock 2860 MHz) jupiter # prtconf -v | grep 'Memory' Memory size: 65536 Megabytes jupiter # Seems a waste really. Dennis
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 6:29 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for > the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? > > Or even M4000 ? I have never touched any of those machines, but from what I know some of the Fujitsu machines aren't supported by the Linux kernel. Frank knows more on this. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: * alpha * hppa * ia64 * m68k * powerpc * ppc64 * sh4 * sparc64 I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine? Or even M4000 ? -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
Hello! I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the following Debian Ports architectures: * alpha * hppa * ia64 * m68k * powerpc * ppc64 * sh4 * sparc64 I uploaded both CD images [1] as well as netboot images [2]. Please test those images and report back over the mailing list for the corresponding architecture. Known issues: * alpha - There have been reports about missing firmware for storage devices. The firmware required for these devices is located in the "firmware-linux" and "firmware-linux-nonfree" packages but currently don't have a floppy driver in debian-installer to load additional firmware. I will figure out how to build CD images including firmware similar to the images available for i386 and amd64. - The images now includes the pata-modules package so users previously missing PATA drivers should be able to install their machines now. * hppa - No known issues and changes. * ia64 - The kernel might be unstable during install (try passing "hardened_usercopy=off" at the boot prompt, e.g. "install hardened_usercopy=off"). - If the machine locks up during boot with a radeon GPU, try passing "modprobe_blacklist=radeon nomodeset". - The installer has been switched to boot using GRUB now, ELILO is no longer available. * m68k - The drivers for IDE hardware may have to be loaded manually, e.g.: + modprobe pata_gayle + modprobe pata_falcon - There is no automatic installation of the bootloader yet, users have to boot the kernel and initrd manually after installation. * powerpc/ppc64 - The bootloader installation still defaults to Yaboot and is being switched to GRUB for IBM POWER and PowerMacs, please report any issues you find. - Unfortunately, upgrading the GRUB package will currently render PowerMacs unbootable. See this thread for more: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2019/04/msg00165.html - On some machines, the fans might produce a lot of noise, this can be addressed by manually the windfarm kernel modules: + modprobe windfarm_core - The installer has been switched to boot using GRUB now, Yaboot is still in the archives but will be removed * sh4 - There is no CD image, installation has to be performed using the debian-installer images. - Currently supported targets are Renesas SH-7785LCR and SH-7751R, the latter should be identical to qemu-sh4. - debian-installer for sh4 is completely untested, please test with QEMU and report back. - The filenames for kernel and initrd still contain an old 2.6.32.5 kernel version. This can be ignored. * sparc64 - Installation over a serial console is currently broken on sparc64 due to a bug in the rootskel package (can also be considered a kernel bug), see: #926539. Use any image before 2019-04-06 as workaround. - The installer has been switched to boot using GRUB now, SILO is no longer available. Important: When reporting issues or bugs, please include the syslog from your installation in the bug report/mail. The log file can be access when switching to another console using + for normal installations or ++ when installing over a serial console. I also need to know what hardware was used, which installation steps (normal vs. expert) and which image was used. I am currently collecting bug reports but cannot push the fixes immediately as the imminent Debian Buster release means that debian-installer and components are effectively frozen. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-05-09/ > [2] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/ -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
