Re: [COMMITTED] Remove obsolete Solaris 11.3 support

2024-05-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Friday 2024-05-10 15:59, Rainer Orth wrote: >Stuff Received writes: > >> On 2024-05-10 07:44, Rainer Orth wrote (in part): >> >>> Besides, if John had ever tried to build either GCC 13 or 14 on Solaris >>> 11.3, gcc/configure would have told him about the obsoletion in no >>> uncertain

Re: Recent issue with /dev/disk/by-uuid

2023-10-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2023-10-28 08:30, Rick Mangus wrote: > >The partition table is a Sun disk label, which means that /dev/sda1 >starts at sector 0 (which it does not _have_ to) >and the filesystem header thus starts in the same >place as if there were no partition table. yeah, that kind of speaks

Re: SMP kernel on sparc64 working

2023-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Saturday 2023-08-12 15:29, Stan Johnson wrote: >On 8/12/23 3:33 AM, Gregor Riepl wrote: >> ... The V215 is very picky about RAM >> (requires buffered DDR-333 modules with ECC). >> I've attached logs from two kernel panics for reference. One happened at >> boot time, the other after some heavy

Re: unbreaking LibreOffices tests on at least release architectures

2023-06-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2023-06-18 23:37, Rob Landley wrote: >On 6/18/23 14:58, Rene Engelhard wrote: >>> Three years ago Samba maintainer Jeremy Allison lamented that "Both GPLv3 >>> and >>> the AGPL have been rejected soundly by most developers" and talked about >>> how he >>> regretted the move and the

Re: Install debian sparc64 with a hdd/ssd as source

2022-07-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2022-07-14 21:37, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> On Jul 14, 2022, at 9:03 PM, Connor McLaughlan wrote: >> >> ctrl+a or do not work. I get a message of "no other window". >> >> I am using screen like this. to connect: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600,cs8 > >Don’t use “screen” as a

Re: Regression in 028abd92 for Sun UltraSPARC T1

2021-03-24 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2021-03-24 14:57, Frank Scheiner wrote: > (gdb) l *(sys_mount+0x114/0x1e0) > 0x6c6380 is in __se_sys_mount (fs/namespace.c:3390). /0x1e0 does not normally belong there. Just l *(sys_mount+0x114)

Re: Regression in 028abd92 for Sun UltraSPARC T1

2021-03-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2021-03-22 22:55, Frank Scheiner wrote: >>> Riccardo Mottola first recognized a problem with 5.10.x kernels on his >>> Sun T2000 with UltraSPARC T1 (details in [this thread]). I could verify >>> the problem also on my Sun T1000 and it looks like this specific issue >>> breaks the

Re: 5.10.0-4-sparc64-smp #1 Debian 5.10.19-1 crashes on T2000

2021-03-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Tuesday 2021-03-23 16:29, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> >> while I was able to "install" correctly using a slightly older ISO, I >> get not a bootable system. The kernel appears to crash very early during >> boot. > > From my current testing it looks like "UltraSPARC IIIi"s are also > affected by

Re: 5.10.0-4-sparc64-smp #1 Debian 5.10.19-1 crashes on T2000

2021-03-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2021-03-11 23:43, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> >> Do you know if I can via serial-console reset the system? > > Reset from the serial console might work via the kernel with the [magic > system request] functionality. > > [magic system request]: >

Re: [PATCH v1 01/13] sparc32: Drop sun4m/sun4d support from head_32.S

2020-12-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Friday 2020-12-18 19:43, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > notsup: >- .asciz "Sparc-Linux sun4/sun4c or MMU-less not supported\n\n" >- .align 4 >- >-sun4e_notsup: >-.asciz "Sparc-Linux sun4e support does not exist\n\n" >+ .asciz "Sparc-Linux sun4* or MMU-less not supported\n\n"

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

2019-05-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Friday 2019-05-10 04:06, Rick Leir wrote: >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 https://oss.oracle.com/linux-sparc/isos/

Re: sparc 32bit userland?

2019-01-27 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2019-01-27 20:25, Dennis Clarke wrote: On a side note: As you also added sparc, say, is it planned to revive the 32bit sparc userland? :-) >>> >>> oh please .. no. >> >> Although I don't have much of a preference for 32bit sparc userland, as >> there is no kernel support for

Re: Latest Debian Sparc64 installer

2018-12-17 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2018-12-17 20:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 12/17/18 7:38 PM, Gregor Riepl wrote: > >> Or will you add a.out support back into libbfd? > >No, that's not really possible as upstream doesn't want to deal with a.out and >COFF anymore, unfortunately. Hm? Was COFF/a.out dropped

Re: NETRA Sparc T4-1 to test with

2018-08-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2018-08-08 16:55, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 08/08/2018 04:44 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Well yes .. however it is sitting inside a rack in a remote datacenter >> and that makes life a real drag.  Sort of why I like network based >> install processes. >> >> Regardless,

Re: 8e9800 Fast Data Access MMU Miss

2018-05-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2018-05-13 20:02, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 05/13/2018 01:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 05/13/2018 06:05 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> Hrmm .. new problem. I think that the firmware on ye older Sun Netra >>> type units was limited as to how much it could fetch and deal

Re: 8e9800 Fast Data Access MMU Miss

2018-05-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2018-05-13 18:05, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Can you try the netboot image contained in this tarball [1]? > > Hrmm .. new problem. I think that the firmware on ye older Sun Netra > type units was limited as to how much it could fetch and deal with > for a "net boot" process. Looks to be

Re: Sun 5220 with SAS1068e 'No disk drives found' error

2018-04-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2018-04-30 08:07, Frans van Berckel wrote: >> >>Sun 5220 with SAS1068e > >For Magaraid there are some kernel modules. 1) megaraid.ko 2) >megaraid_mbox.ko 3) megaraid_mm.ko 4) megaraid_sas.ko > >Not sure these are compiled. I would say, you need sas, but verify. The LSI1064 and LSI1068

Re: [sparc64] number of processors in a LDOM

2018-04-04 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2018-04-04 15:30, Anatoly Pugachev wrote: > >Can someone tell me or suggest why does getconf returns total available to a >physical machine >cpu count, and not LDOM allocated processor/vcpu count ? > >ttip$ getconf -a | grep PROCESSORS >_NPROCESSORS_CONF  256

32-bit toolchain

2017-12-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Greetings. The wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64 makes a broad claim, """32-bit toolchain is not anymore supported upstream.""" * Which 32-bit does it refer to? Only v8, or also the ILP32 mode of v9 (v8plus)? Debian sid/sp64 still allows me to do `gcc -m32` after all,d and run

Re: Weird kernel 2.6.17.[67] behaviour

2006-07-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
The boot hangs, the cursor (in the framebuffer) stops blinking, nothing is displayed, and the machine seems frozen until I hit a key or a button Hm. Does this happen if you disconnect the monitor and keyboard and instead boot with serial console? Jan Engelhardt -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email