Re: New Debian sparc installation images

2016-11-27 Thread Kieron Gillespie
statement. On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 1:38 PM, James Clarke <jrt...@jrtc27.com> wrote: > > On 27 Nov 2016, at 18:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < > glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > > Hi Kieron! > > > >> On 11/27/2016 04:10 PM, Kieron Gillespie wrote

Re: Debian-9.0-sparc64-netinst-1 2016-05-04 on Sunblade 2500 Success

2016-07-06 Thread Kieron Gillespie
ay Quake 3 with this graphics card. I have gotten the nouveau to load the basic modesetting terminal, which is pretty good, but am now running into CACH_ERRORs when I try to force Xorg to run which is locking up CPU0 at 100%. So still working out those problems. (Maybe I should try Wayland instead?) -Kieron

Debian-9.0-sparc64-netinst-1 2016-05-04 on Sunblade 2500 Success

2016-07-06 Thread Kieron Gillespie
on it. -Kieron Gillespie

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

2016-01-01 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Any chance that we are about ready to write some instructions on how other can setup there own instance of SPARC64 yet? Feeling like my instructions right now would require a bit too much hacking at this point but maybe with the next release of the install iso? On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 5:55 PM,

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

2016-01-01 Thread Kieron Gillespie
So I was able to get past the 33% error on the partition by setting the -F flag for mkfs.ext4 in the debian install scripts. Guidance to the issue was found here https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767682 Modified /lib/partman/commit.d/50format_ext3 and changed the line

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

2016-01-01 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Was wondering if there is any way to install the SILO bootloader with this installed? I was pretty much able to get everything installed, with all the work arounds listed here, except for SILO which appears to no longer be available in the repros. On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Ulrich Teichert

Re: New working sparc64 netinst image

2015-12-29 Thread Kieron Gillespie
I have a server sitting in the cloud currently not doing anything useful. It has a fairly good Internet connection. If I am pointed to some instructions I could set up a dedicated mirror for SPARC64. On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de>

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-05-01 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Well it is a good start. =D There are still complaints, though haven't seen the bug reports, that modern kernel's are unstable on certain peices of hardware. Personally I can't reproduce any of these issues, I have rolled out the latest kernel for a while now on some of my sparc systems, my T2000

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Kieron Gillespie
I have also been able to build the gcc 4.8.2-21 packages as well. I am not sure what is causing the build systems so much grief when it comes to building these packages. Cheers, Kieron On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Patrick Baggett baggett.patr...@gmail.comwrote: I kicked off a gcc build

Re: the future of sparc in unstable

2014-04-30 Thread Kieron Gillespie
What is also weird is you have the debug package for it. So I am sure it compiled I think there might be something wrong with the packaging for it. On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Baggett baggett.patr...@gmail.comwrote: I tried to build the gcc-4.8-4.8.2-20 and the build is broken.

Re: Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-29 Thread Kieron Gillespie
I am currently investigating this unusual behavior with strcmp, and I am unable to reproduce the problem using the test_strcmp example provided. It returns the correct output of, result from strcmp('\','\0001' is -1) This was built on Debian Wheezy with a T2000 SPARC processor using GCC

Re: Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-29 Thread Kieron Gillespie
/2014 16:34, Kieron Gillespie a écrit : I am currently investigating this unusual behavior with strcmp, and I am unable to reproduce the problem using the test_strcmp example provided. It returns the correct output of, result from strcmp('\','\0001' is -1) This was built on Debian Wheezy

Re: Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-29 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Do we currently have a master list of all the major bugs facing the Sparc Port right now? On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Patrick Baggett baggett.patr...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Patrick Baggett baggett.patr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that's the one.

Re: Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

2014-04-29 Thread Kieron Gillespie
...@nerim.netwrote: Le 30/04/2014 00:12, Kieron Gillespie a écrit : Do we currently have a master list of all the major bugs facing the Sparc Port right now? I don't think so. I haven't been able to get one. You can start one. Seb

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-24 Thread Kieron Gillespie
September 2013 22:37:02 Kieron Gillespie wrote: Strange as those steps you mentioned are exactly what I am doing on my two SPARC systems. I am going to have to guess this is an issue with these particular pieces of hardware the Sun Blade 2500 and the Sun Fire T2000. Thanks for the help, I

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-21 Thread Kieron Gillespie
of Wheezy (7.0.1) on a Sun Ultra 60, i.e. a SCSI machine. I'm going to do a test with an ATAPi/IDE Blade 100 as well, but I have to set up this machine first - that will take a while. Regards, Hartwig On Friday 20 September 2013 03:37:30 Kieron Gillespie wrote: So current when I build

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-21 Thread Kieron Gillespie
... Regards, Hartwig On Saturday 21 September 2013 17:42:00 Kieron Gillespie wrote: Could you send me a link to the exact procedure you used. I keep find like four different ways to make a vanilla kernel for Debian. Two of my systems are SCSI based and both of those have problems

Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-19 Thread Kieron Gillespie
baggett.patr...@gmail.comwrote: I didn't have any problems, but I'm not using initramfs. To build a kernel 'the debian way', you might need to find a guide or maybe someone else can chime in? On Sep 18, 2013 10:05 PM, Kieron Gillespie ciaran.gilles...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Was wondering

Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-18 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Hello everyone, Was wondering if anyone had any success compiling any of the vanilla Linux kernel's on their SPARC wheezy systems with anything after version 3.8.x. Every time I try to build myself a new kernel I seem to end up with a kernel that is unable to boot complaining about not being

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-04 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Hi, I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For SPARC64, I - test a lot of the packages for KDE4 Desktop - testing and currently preparing patches for Iceweasel - test Vanilla build of the Linux

Any experience with Radeons on SPARC?

2012-04-10 Thread Kieron Gillespie
problems getting it to run. I was wondering if anyone has an experience getting the radeon driver working on SPARC system with Debian. -Kieron Gillespie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

IOMMU: Ran out of contexts. errors then the system reboots.

2012-04-09 Thread Kieron Gillespie
a while of this the system will reboot all on it's own. I was wondering if anyone else had experience with this problem. -Kieron Gillespie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: gcc: Internal Compiler error: Bus error randomly occurs.

2012-04-02 Thread Kieron Gillespie
Ultra 10 (UltraSPARC IIi, not IIIi like the Blade 2500). Do have a *.c/*.cpp test case I can try to compile that gives you SIGBUS? Also, what version of GCC are you using? Patrick On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Kieron Gillespie ciaran.gilles...@gmail.com mailto:ciaran.gilles...@gmail.com wrote

Re: gcc: Internal Compiler error: Bus error randomly occurs.

2012-04-02 Thread Kieron Gillespie
get bus errors from nouveau, but I do compiles all the time without problem. I understand that the problem is intermittent -- perhaps it is related to an older GCC version? I'm using GCC 4.6.x and I have no problems what so ever. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Kieron Gillespie ciaran.gilles

gcc: Internal Compiler error: Bus error randomly occurs.

2012-04-01 Thread Kieron Gillespie
occur again. Though this is quite troubling and I was wondering if anyone has any idea what could be causing it? -Kieron Gillespie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Default kernel build on SPARC doesn't have SMP enabled?

2012-03-25 Thread Kieron Gillespie
problems including hardware support for graphics cards on the system. Kieron Gillespie.