Hi,
i've also experienced the two passes behaviour occasionally, but
up to now haven't been able to figure out a pattern. It's definately
Linux-specific, since we don't see that behaviour with our AIX LPARs.
Not sure though if its yaboot or Kernel related.
It's not specific to Linux, however
Hi,
I thinkg SSA is the better of the two but before I worry about that I
want to know if SSA is supported. Untill I know, I can always get the
unit with neither six-pack and just use the base boot drive.
Unfortunately SSA isnt supported on Linux.
Anton
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just wondering, is the timebase suppose to look like this? and where are
the bogomips gone?
Yep, the timebase is externally clocked on those machines. And since
bogomips is useless there is no need to advertise it here :)
Anton
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Mucking with the environment variables as you suggest fixed my problem.
Thanks! I have now compiled a PPC 64 kernel, but sadly do not have a G5
to try it on. :(
Unfortunately I cant help you there :)
I noticed gcc uses the -m64 option when compiling the 64 bit things. When
no -mXY is
Can anyone tell me where to get a toolchain that can build a PPC64 (NOT
PPC32) kernel? I've now got a few PPC64 machines running Debian that
I'd like to run an actual 64-bit kernel on...
Maybe you'll have better luck. I built one with crosstool-031 which was
very easy. Unfortunately
Hi,
Does anyone know how many processors are supported on Power 5 SMP machines
with Linux?
I'm hoping to buy a 16 processor system and am cureous if theres any hope
of Linux being able to use all 16 procs.
Yes. We regularly boot POWER5 machines with 128 threads (64 way).
Note that
Hi,
I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization,
but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why.
Nice, it gets a lot further on POWER3 now :) It stops right here:
time_init: decrementer frequency = 93.748235 MHz
time_init: processor frequency =
I just tried it on my POWER3 box. You dont happen to have
CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY enabled do you? That option enables some minor
optimisations that actually prevent booting on older boxes.
It boots on a 1.6GHz JS20 blade. Unfortunately I couldnt bring up a
network, we need the tg3 driver as a
Hi,
There's a 64-bit tftp installer image based on kernel 2.6.10 here:
http://debian.gonicus.de/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-powerpc/pseries.img
Since most installer packages are not official yet, you've to continue the
net installation by choosing the mirror manually to sound
This option is enabled because the kernel was targeted to IBM pseries systems
which have POWER(4/4+/5) processors.
I've disabled this in the config now, but will rebuild the kernel on the next
build cycle since this is somewhat time consuming. Will trop you a message.
Thanks! Im looking
Oh, if it is the js20, i think we had had some report of people trying to make
it work some time back. I don't think d-i is already upto it, but the work
Cajus is doing should help. There may be kernel issues, but maybe the latest
bunch of 970Fx fixes will help, or maybe you need a ppc64
Hi,
Why won't the 32bit power4 kernels boot on these machines ? They should, only
the iseries really need a 64bit kernel.
The 32bit kernel does not have the pseries LPAR interfaces and so will
not boot on a partitioned POWER4 box or any POWER5 box.
Anton
Hi,
I haven't tried it, but the error does look familiar. I think this is
the error you get when binaries get too many symbols. The TOC normally
fits in a single 16bit offset window. If your binary gets too big, it
can't use simple immediate offsets to access individual elements. I
Hi,
I have downloaded xlc ibm compiler for suse (trial version) but ppc64
isn't supported by alien. So I unpacked everythings but I didn't
success in running it (xlc doesn't found 1501-231 message). Does
somebody already have done it ?
I really want to run it under debian since I
Hi,
Ok, mmm, you mean the pcnet32 driver is not in the debian-installer net
drivers ?
It is in the nic-extra-modules, which is not part of the initrd, we will
fix this, either move it to nic-modules or add the nic-extra-modules to
the initrd.
FYI to cover most RS6000/pseries boxes:
I've heard people mention on this list that they are running IBM's Java
package rather than the (elderly) Blackdown one. Unfortunately, I
cannot for the life of me find a download link for it on IBM's site.
Could someone please point me in the right direction so that I can get
this
So, as I've noticed that I can't successfully compile a 64bit powerpc
kernel using any sort of 'normal' kernels (or it may be a GCC issue).
Precisely what toolchain/kernel sources (ie give me URL's or debian
package names) do I need to build a ppc64 kernel?
Can you elaborate? 2.6 should
Hi,
Mmm, maybe it should be possible to create a proper kernel package for
your boxes, could you send me a .config file for a 2.4.22 kernel ? Will
the standard linuxppc_2_4 tree do, or do you need special patches ?
We need to get the 64bit ppc cross compiler into debian, it sounded
like
Hi,
We tested debian-installer (daily build from a day ago) on a ppc64 box
and found a few issues. To keep life interesting, we also used a 2.6
kernel.
1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much
deprecated, so it would be nice if d-i could handle a non devfs kernel.
When i understand you right, i have to install and compile the
Toolchain on my System and after that i can compile the
patched Kernel from penguinppc64 ?
Sorry, i'am not yet an Insider but where can
i find the 2.4.21-pre6 Code under Marcelo's Directory on kernel.org ?
If it becomes all too
Hi Rolf,
How can I help out testing Sarge on IBM pSeries systems ( I have access to
a lab full of these systems )?
Eventually Id like to see a debian CD that boots on pSeries boxes. I
built a woody one recently but I run into problems during the install.
Im not adventurous enough to rebuild
I have six shiny new IBM p655 nodes
Great!
and I can't do a thing with them...
Not great.
I'll save AIX aches for else where, but my Debian problem is that I
can't seem to get them to tftpboot (and they have no removable media).
the get IP and the boot file name correctly from the
Hi John,
Does debian support X on RS6K?
I have IBM 256-bit graphics rasterizer [Fire GL1] card. I tried
using the generic vga settings but
it complains about the clocks line.
Interesting, is this a standard RS6000 card? If so what is the IBM
name for it?
Also, does debian support
Hi,
Is any one running Debian on an IBM pSeries server?
I have a p655 on the way and I'm wondering what my chances are.
I have fairly extensive experience with Debian, and no experience with
IBM Powerpc based machines or AIX.
Any and all pointers and suggestions welcomed.
Ive run
Hi,
I submitted some patches for strace on ppc a few months ago but nothing
has happened. The worst one is the fact that strace tries to insert
an intel assembly instruction in order to lock a child process in
a busy loop. This makes the -f option completely unreliable.
Can someone do an NMU
It sounds a lot like the cases in i386 where a given hardware module
isn't compiled into the kernel.
It does. Is the SYM53C8XX driver compiled into the boot disk kernel?
Anton
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Dear Friends,
This is the first time that i write to you
and i don't know is this email destination
is rigth for my questions.
If No, please, tell me where email.
I have:
IBM RISC System/6000
model 43P-140
other informations:
640e 200 MHz
7043 44-L0258
firmware TIG 97112.
Actually,
I'm being freaked out by a really weird bug.
iBook2, running testing, with 2.4.16-ben0 as the kernel.
The machine is convinced it's a month ahead (as the headers on this mail
probably say).
It sounds like a kernel bug that should be fixed in a more recent
kernel. It wasnt a laptop but
Hi,
wmb is defined as
#define wmb() __asm__ __volatile__ (eieio : : : memory)
however, ``eieio'' has no effect on memory, that is
Write Through Not Required, thus I think it should be
#define wmb() __asm__ __volatile__ (sync : : : memory)
While the original ppc spec did not
Hi,
- r128 doesn't work without UseFBDev at least on Pismos (I suspect all
UniNorth Macs) because we're now trying to do ISA I/O with the help of a new
system call, but the server crashes. It works fine on those machines without
it, so what would we lose by disabling it in r128 #ifdef
btw mmap(/proc/bus/pci/...) was added around 2.4.4 right ?
Yep 2.4.5. From memory the X patches I saw did not allow the
X server to fall back to mmap(/dev/mem) which is important.
Anton
Hi,
even a small start would be helping me get better RS/6000 support in
ybin, since the boot-floppies completely rely on ybin to make
yaboot systems bootable.
I have debian running on a number of RS6000s. Ignoring the install,
all that is required (on POWER3 machines) is to fix libc to
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