Re: Bug#926539: rootskel: steal-ctty no longer works on at least sparc64

2019-04-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 11:47 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Ben! > > On 4/7/19 1:53 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > root@landau:~# cat /proc/consoles > > > ttyHV0 -W- (EC p )4:64 > > > tty0 -WU (E )4:1 &g

dd-schroot-cmd broken on notker

2017-02-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
know when this is fixed. I'm not subscribed to this list. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 15:48 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/01/2016 02:17 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > > > This isn't the case for PowerPC32 where upstream development is still very > > > active because it's part of the PowerPC ker

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
which is why I hope > we can add sparc64 as an official port soon. [...] Oracle cares about Solaris on SPARC, not Linux on SPARC. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
don't need multiarch: [...] This is only the case because ppc64 has a lower level of support (unofficial port) than powerpc (release architecture).  The 64-bit kernel package should be dropped once powerpc is at the same or lower level of support than ppc64 - just as we've done for i386, s390 and sparc

Re: kernel modules does not have signatures, so taints kernel

2016-06-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
itectures in the main archive, so excluding sparc64. As it is, the only way to avoid it is to install my patched kmod and an experimental signature package.  And that actually isn't a very good idea, so in practice everyone sees this error message at the moment on all architectures. Ben. -- Ben Hutching

Re: Bug#815977 closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

2016-04-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
that needs further > review or discussion? FWIW, the patch set has been acked upstream [1,2], > but it has not been merged yet. [...] As you should know, our general policy is to wait for patches to be applied by the subsystem maintainer.  Let us know when they are. Ben. -- Ben Hu

Re: Bug#815977: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

2016-04-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reopen -1 Control: retitle -1 vio devices on SPARC do not have modaliases On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 17:27 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/13/2016 02:03 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > On 04/11/2016 01:32 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > >

Re: Bug#815977 closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

2016-04-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2016-04-11 at 00:02 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/10/2016 10:17 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Like everything else in the installer initramfs, they are installed > > from a udeb.  See build/pkg-lists/*/sparc64.cfg > Yeah, I remember that now. I

Re: Bug#815977 closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

2016-04-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2016-04-10 at 21:03 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/10/2016 08:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > initramfs-tools has nothing to do with the installer initramfs. > Hmm, ok. Then I'll need to keep digging in debian-installer. So far, > I haven't found

Re: Bug#815977 closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#815977: kernel-image-4.4.0-1-sparc64-di: Please add sunvnet and sunvdc for d-i)

2016-04-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
ith the module loading mechanism. Grepping > through sources.debian.net, it looks like the modules are actually > loaded by initramfs-tools when /sys/bus/vio is present during boot. [...] initramfs-tools has nothing to do with the installer initramfs. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always

Re: Bug#812928: udev: cdrom_id terminated by signal BUS

2016-01-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
ns if you change it to: if (auxv) memcpy(, auxv, sizeof(x)); ? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#809815: [feature request] linux-image-4.3.0-1-sparc64-smp: tpm random module for linux LDOMs

2016-01-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 03:00 +0300, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:08 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 20:30 +0300, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > > > Can you please suggest, what to do next? Close this bugreport as

Re: Bug#809815: [feature request] linux-image-4.3.0-1-sparc64-smp: tpm random module for linux LDOMs

2016-01-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 20:30 +0300, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:49 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 23:13 +0300, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > > [...] > > > Sorry for wrong feature request, please close this b

Re: Bug#809815: [feature request] linux-image-4.3.0-1-sparc64-smp: tpm random module for linux LDOMs

2016-01-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 23:13 +0300, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: [...] > Sorry for wrong feature request, please close this bug as non-valid. Thanks. I don't mind keeping it open if you're still hoping to get more information. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life would be so much easier if we could l

Re: Sparc removal

2015-07-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
change, and I believe the 32-bit and 64-bit modes for userland are not that different. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
-supported even in wheezy. The kernel doesn't boot on some common machines and no-one seems to be able to fix it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: UltraSPARC T3 kernel patches

2012-01-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
expect to do so Real Soon Now, but not soon enough for your testing. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: UltraSPARC T3 kernel patches

2011-08-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 19:23 +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 03:53:38PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:25:36 +0100 The problem with vmlinux.lds.S appears to be trivial, I have simply merged it in manually and

Re: Addendum to Niagara-T3 kernel patches

2011-08-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 18:11 -0700, David Miller wrote: Ben, please add the following bug fix on top of the Sparc Niagara-T3 patch set I sent the other week, otherwise all pre-Niagara boxes won't boot. I think there may have been a miscommunication. I assumed Jurij would apply the SPARC

Re: UltraSPARC T3 kernel patches

2011-08-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
? Thanks! Obviously, I would welcome such a contribution, but the final decision regarding including the out-of-tree patchsets lies with kernel team - CC'ing them. Any such patches would of course have to be accepted by the upstream maintainer for SPARC. ;-) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get

Re: Bug#622745: linux-image-2.6-sparc64-smp: squeeze provided kernels did not boot on Sun Fire 480R or 880

2011-04-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:57:25PM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Does your custom kernel use the old IDE cmd64x driver? What happens if you add 'blacklist=pata_cmd64x' to the kernel command line for the Debian kernel

pata_cmd64x provokes bus error on Sun Fire 480R or 880

2011-04-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
Debian received a bug report that pata_cmd64x fails on some SPARC machines, whereas cmd64x works. The bug report is logged at http://bugs.debian.org/622745. On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:57 +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Does your custom

Re: [FIX]: ultra45 boot failing...

2009-09-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
Version: 2.6.26-14 13:52 bwh davem: btw, the Debian bug with PCI enumeration by X vs kernel is supposed to be fixed, but perhaps you could verify that? http://bugs.debian.org/514418 22:38 davem bwh: yes that debian bug is fixed -- Ben Hutchings The program

woody installer stops after prompting for root floppy

2004-01-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
2002-05-21 and got to the point of floppy0: WARNING disk change called early VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER I followed the instruction, but nothing happened. I can post a complete log of boot messages if that's useful. -- Ben Hutchings For every