Re: PA8800/8900 status HPPA for Squeeze

2010-03-16 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:44:32PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:50:02PM -0300, Kurt Fitzner wrote: Being a great fan of HPPA (these machines just last forever) I have the opportunity to pick up a cheap C8000. I noticed a few notes about instability of Linux with

Re: PA8800/8900 status HPPA for Squeeze

2010-03-16 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:02 AM, dann frazier da...@dannf.org wrote: The biggest issues I know of are hppa-specific bugs:  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-h...@lists.debian.org;which=tagdata=hppaarchive=no I suspect a good chunk of them could be root caused back to

Re: PA8800/8900 status HPPA for Squeeze

2010-03-16 Thread Frans Pop
Carlos O'Donell wrote: My *top* priorities are: - glibc regressions. - vfork bug.Carlos O'Donell wrote: I think it's time for another huge thank you to Carlos for his continued work that allows hppa to remain alive. So Carlos: muchas gracias (Not meaning to dismiss all the excellent work of

PA8800/8900 status HPPA for Squeeze

2010-03-15 Thread Kurt Fitzner
Being a great fan of HPPA (these machines just last forever) I have the opportunity to pick up a cheap C8000. I noticed a few notes about instability of Linux with PA8800/8900. The most up-to-date reference I could find, though, was for kernel 2.6.22. Is instability on this platform still a

Re: PA8800/8900 status HPPA for Squeeze

2010-03-15 Thread Grant Grundler
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:50:02PM -0300, Kurt Fitzner wrote: Being a great fan of HPPA (these machines just last forever) I have the opportunity to pick up a cheap C8000. I noticed a few notes about instability of Linux with PA8800/8900. The most up-to-date reference I could find, though,