debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso (rel 2018-02-16T23:09:00) Networking issues on Blade 150

2018-02-19 Thread Jerome Ibanes
Installer fails to setup networking, I switched to a console, no ip address was assigned, I issued "ip link set enp0s12f1", the blade locked up for a few seconds then displayed: [585.625540] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:1:23] Keyboard no longer worked after

Re: GRUB testers on SPARC needed

2018-02-19 Thread txt.file
I finally found time to test GRUB on my Netra T1. But then I saw this message and am demotivated. Please add a grub build with Erics patches to experimental. kind regards txt.file John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > Hello! > > On 02/19/2018 10:26 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> There's a new package

Re: GRUB testers on SPARC needed

2018-02-19 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi, On 02/19/2018 02:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Installing it **and** using the mentioned `grub-install` command to install it on the `/boot` partition over the previous version (2.02-2+sparc64.3) breaks booting with GRUB2: Yes, this is something I don't have any control over.

Re: Bug#854568: grub2: Add support for modern sparc64 hardware

2018-02-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Colin! On 09/29/2017 03:04 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Slightly updated to fix an FTBFS because of -Wmaybe-uninitalized. This version of the patch still applies cleanly. Would you mind including it for the next 2.02 upload? It will be part of GRUB upstream once version 2.04 is

Re: Bug#888757: rustc: Please backport upstream patch to fix sparc64 CABI

2018-02-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! A working version of rustc_1.24 for sparc64 should be in the archives and once rust_1.24 gets uploaded, it should build properly on sparc64. Please remember to update the patch debian/patches/u-fix-sparc64-cabi.patch to include the hunk in [1]. The additional parameter was required for 1.23

Re: GRUB testers on SPARC needed

2018-02-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 02/19/2018 10:26 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: There's a new package version (2.02+dfsg1-1) available since a few days ([1]). [1]: http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/g/grub2/grub2_2.02+dfsg1-1_changelog Installing it **and** using the mentioned `grub-install` command

Re: T1000, T5220: segfault during login via serial console

2018-02-19 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 02/05/2018 09:49 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Sorry, but my tests this morning after I again upgraded to the *8-* versions of the above libs plus rebuilding initramfs again and reboot showed segfaults when trying to login via serial console. So I think I have to revert my conclusion from

Re: GRUB testers on SPARC needed

2018-02-19 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 12/08/2017 01:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: We're in the process of migrating Debian for sparc64 from SILO to GRUB as GRUB upstream is adding support for modern SPARC machines thanks to the work of Eric Snowberg from Oracle. In order to make sure GRUB works on all machines

Re: IP auto-config with DHCP on sparc64 possibly broken

2018-02-19 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 02/19/2018 08:44 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 02/18/2018 10:40 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: , it's just that the tool you are using is apparently producing unaligned accesses. What you emphasized is from the AlphaServer DS25, do you assume that unaligned accesses lead to bus