re more people using it or more testing, or more distros
> supporting it - not just (theoretically?) working on it - then I'd be
> fighting to keep it.
I wish I had some arguments for that point... I will just re-mention Qemu,
as it makes testing quite easy and reasonably not-too-slow.
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n here!).
If there's still a distribution willing to build for Sparc v8, then I
believe the kernel
should try to keep support of the relevant machine architectures if at all
possible...
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he bug was fixed; I merely requested further
tests to see if it was:
> (..)try the current kernel and see if it fixes the problem? And if it
> doesn't, (...)
Clearly, it doesn't for everyone :-(
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lelism in the build system, could the memory
have been saturated somehow?
On my side I was running at -j3 to force a bit of context switching
(SB has dual CPU), but there's 8 GIB in there and I don't think I got
close to the limit...
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Linux (it should work on
Solaris), I have a spare XVR-100 to swap in that should be OK.
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Le jeu. 9 juil. 2020 à 13:26, Romain Dolbeau a écrit :
> So - has anyone made any progress on this or are we still in need of a
> bisect? If the latest, is there any known way to quickly cause a crash
> to ensure if a tested kernel is good/bad?
I wanted to give a go at bisecting, s
asy-to-find SCA or FC-AL drive that came
standard.
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ing problem as you just mentioned it again :-)
I'll need to try again when I find the time.
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means
of installing unrelated?
(haven't had time to play with my T5120 since debootstrap was failing).
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rts
> FTP infrastructure doesn't support a feature called "cruft".
OK thank you for the explanation. I guess isc-dhcp-client should be
fixed soon, as that seems to affect pretty much all architectures
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dolbeau@t5120:~$ apt-show-versions -a -p libdns-export1102
libdns-export1102:sparc64 1:9.11.4.P2+dfsg-3 install ok installed
No unstable version
libdns-export1102:sparc64 1:9.11.4.P2+dfsg-3 installed: No available
version in archive
In my /var/cache, the packages are from late September.
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rsions
of Oracle Linux... and those recent versions of Oracle
Linux do not support the T5120 (only T4 and later IIRC).
You should be able to download & install S11 for the T5120,
I had no issue doing it a few months back, if you really want
to use ldoms.
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now I have 8 cores @ 1.4 GHz instead
of 4 @ 1.2 GHz :-)
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2018-07-20 23:52 GMT+02:00 Romain Dolbeau :
> I don't think I did anything special beyond
> slightly fixing the grub.cfg by adding the pool name...
Last week-end (25/26 august), I dist-upgraded my ZFS root install...
unfortunately, I haven't been able to boot it since :-(
I got an upgraded
r_t*)key
$9 = (uintptr_t *) 0x80010a425aec
#
So, yet another function that doesn't bother to check for alignment,
it seems... that pointer is aligned on 4 bytes, but not 8.
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o issue
(well, the first two before the hang).
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2018-08-14 18:11 GMT+02:00 Romain Dolbeau :
> Does it mean that when grub 'search' for the /boot UUID, it gets the
> wrong device entry ? (missing @sd1,0)
There's definitely a bug somewhere, as 'ls' in the grub command line
also generates the errors and hang...
However - when loading,
error message:
#
Invalid SCSI target number fff9afc8
error: unable to open /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,880/sd.
#
Does it mean that when grub 'search' for the /boot UUID, it gets the
wrong device entry ? (missing @sd1,0)
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why.
This is the same kernel & initrd as with Silo - so it is known to work
on this machine...
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hackish FFB driver, but those could be the userland badly interacting
with the big-endian system...
(I'm running WindowMaker & xterm).
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s machine as well as PCI
machine, as it's UPA-based in both cases ?
Thanks everyone for all the great work :-) If only I had the space for
a T3 or a M4000...
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f the ext4 auto-created partition to the sector), I can't help.
My first attempt failed - not valid. After trying again, it started working
and I just had to fix the various issues in configuration and versions
mentioned in a previous mail. I don't think I did anything special beyond
slightly fixing the grub.cfg by adding the pool name...
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interface
configuration, the console, right klibc, ...).
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omething else...
But assumption is the mother of all f*ck-ups :-) Turns out I had
forgotten to propagate the network config from the ext4 install this
time, and yes I needed the console parameter :-)
I have mutiuser on the ZFS Root install now :-)
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2018-07-18 7:34 GMT+02:00 Romain Dolbeau :
> That's where I am a right now. I'll try to rebuild Debian ZFS in the chroot
> instead of the installed Debian next...
Ended up doing 'mkdir' of the missing directory during build, solved
the problem.
Then the new ZFS, being older, didn't
chroot
instead of the installed Debian next...
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uot;boot partition" similar to the
one debian-installer added on /dev/sdc, as it is apparently required.
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otloaders. But this is still an item on my
> evergrowing TODO list.
Not a critical item, but it's a lot easier to find a USB stick than a blank
CD media and a working reader nowadays.
Next step - ZFS followed by trying to deboostrap a new install in a ZFS root :-)
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ck on this
beast, is there already support for an USB installer in Debian
Sparc64? (I've run out of blank media - don't use them that much
anymore...).
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instructions the kernel
uses, after all :-(
Low-level parallelism is hard :-)
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[1] e.g.
<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris10/index-142944.html>,
<https://cr.yp.to/2005-590/sparcv9.pdf>
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on v7/v8,
so I never thought of looking at the kernel. Debian only goes up to Debian 5.
Re-compiling a recent GCC on a dual SM51 is an exercise in patience
nowadays :-)
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based on the address of the protected variable. If that
matters... use v8+ hardware instead would be my advice :-) v7 and v8
are not suitable for modern parallelism.
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n be adapted to at least sun4m and Ultra 1 (base
address & map-page stuff). They probably can be used on a Blade 100 as
well.
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the port, thanks to all those involved for the
efforts :-)
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2016-03-06 10:00 GMT+01:00 Romain Dolbeau <rom...@dolbeau.org>:
> 3) apply the attached patch to the /dist directory to fix some minor
compilation issues
Updated patch with an API change to EnableDisableFBAccess.
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ffb.1.patch
Description: Binary data
d the data from that file
after the nvram is initialized (file hw/sparc/sun4m.c, function
nvram_init()).
It also saves a lot of time when you give qemu the full 256 MiB of memory,
since with a valid nvram the PROM won't check all of the memory.
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2016-02-14 19:04 GMT+01:00 Romain Dolbeau <rom...@dolbeau.org>:
> * But there is ongoing work from the great folks over at NetBSD to port
some of those drivers to the EXA infrastructure, see e.g.:
> <https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2015/11/27/msg002478.html>
I finally
11/27/msg002478.html>
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with the "boot.img" from lenny
(which I'm upgrading to wheezy to try a chroot-like install of sparc64 on a
partition).
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2016-02-12 15:56 GMT+01:00 Romain Dolbeau <rom...@dolbeau.org>:
> Then - nothing. It just sits there. Doesn't sound like it's using the
disk or cd.
It might not find either, from my subsequent experiment.
I decided I didn't need no cdrom installer, and went back to lenny's
network
first attempt and it failed with a black screen, as
described in my first message. Going through Lenny/sparc was
an attempt at circumventing the problem in the cdrom :-)
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led a brand new
chip a few months ago).
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r laptop doesn't have
> a serial, try one of these USB-RS232 adapters, these work fine.
I wanted to, but I no longer have a system with a serial port, and adapter
or a (null-modem) serial cable there. It's been a while since I needed
those, they're buried in an attic someplace else :-(
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2016-02-13 16:56 GMT+01:00 Romain Dolbeau <rom...@dolbeau.org>:
> Can't figure out what's wrong (I did add sun_esp to /etc/modules and
> rebuilt the initrd, but no luck).
>
For the record, with sun_esp in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules (+initrd
rebuild), it works just fine.
Cordial
2016-01-26 0:12 GMT+01:00 Romain Dolbeau <rom...@dolbeau.org>:
> Now I need to find a cd-r to burn, to try and install on my Ultra 1E if I
can find the time.
Just tried it, unfortunately so far no luck. I have the 20160802-16:21
image on a CD-R that boots SILO just fine, then load t
s to do "ssh -p 10023 user@localhost" to connect to
the VM once SSH is started. It's all bog-standard, slow, non-virtio
devices, but it does the job.
Now I need to find a cd-r to burn, to try and install on my Ultra 1E if I
can find the time. Probably won't be fast :-)
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idea is to take the HC files for GHC itself to the target
machine and compile them with gcc to get a working GHC, and go from there."
So basically, hack a working compiler and then rebuild the package
cleanly...
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-fPIC choice always works, but may produce larger code than -fpic".
Presumably a different way of relocating, more amenable to large amount of
code.
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/fetch.php?pkg=libgc=sparc64=1%3A7.4.2-7=1447500449
>
> Probably missing support. There is a sparc_mach_dep.S in the source
archive, but comments in it suggest it is for Solaris.
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ps:
#define SIGSEGV_FAULT_STACKPOINTER ((ucontext_t *)
ucp)->uc_mcontext.mc_gregs[MC_O6]
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ader
(sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sys/ucontext.h) defines REG_O6 as well, so
that bit of the fix might not be necessary. It does use mc_gregs like 3.16.
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so is available to the callee in %i6, Input register 6, as the
Frame Pointer %fp). SPARC register windows are cool when you get to know
them :-)
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newer Debian. I'm just not sure whether it's worth
the hassle compared to say, trying to improve NetBSD or OpenBSD...
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for almost free, it's implemented in hardware. If you want
HW RAID1 instead of SW, an old 3ware PCI RAID1 card for PATA
should still fit inside 80W, 100W top.
BTW, maybe this part of the discussion should be moved out
of debian-sparc now ? It has strayed far from the topic
for the list.
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TurboSPARC (which is a crappy CPU not well supported)
or a flavor of MicroSPARC II (between 70 and 110 Mhz, and
resonably well supported). /proc/cpuinfo will tell you
that if you can get to a linux command-line. Anyway, it
won't be a fast computer...
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replaced by Sun, no questions asked.
I think they were 300 Mhz, but I'm not 100 % sure of that.
Anyway, the problem was pretty obvious as the monitor
would display the error directly to the console ...
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suffered serious
cache problems ; the symptoms were transient uncorrectable
failure in the L2 cache, resulting in a kernel panic.
At my old labs, we had 6 of those delivered in one bunch,
and we had to replace at least 5 or 6 modules (at least one
machine had the module replaced twice).
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/mouse, and use a
dumb terminal hooked to serial port A ; you can also use a common
null modem cable between serial port A and another machine serial
port running a terminal software such as minicom.
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on non-RAID partition (/ and swap),
with space reserved for RAID, and moved the filesystems I wanted
to preserve to the LVM-on-RAID afterwards. (main disk was 9 GiB,
and secondary was 4 GiB so I only mirrored the datas, I still boot
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for this?
What does the device-tree looks like ? (show-devs in the console should
display it) From the device name of the SCSI bus it should be possible
to determine which module you need, and then you can check wether it's
loaded properly by the kernel.
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everything required. You only need to configure the bootp
server (it's in the doc) and the tftp server (it's in the doc too).
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be available in this manner,
even if it's not present in the default kernel on cdrom.
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in the prom (there used to be a 'test-all'
command in the openboot console, maybe it's available on the E4000 ?)
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As a side-note: does NetBSD support SMP on sun4m? This is the main issue
for me.
It's supposed to, on both SuperSPARC and HyperSPARC; I haven't tried it
myself, as I don't have a SMP sun4m.
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, it was just an idea to provoque discussion ; It'd probably
better for everyone if the sparc32 port could be made to last for the
next fifty years or so :-)
I hope the above did not flame;)
The flicker of a lighter in the first paragraph, maybe ;-)
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compliant).
All other sun4m machines have v8 compliant CPUs, AFAICR.
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for compliance. The presence of the multiplications is one of
the difference with V7, as stated in appendix G of the V8 manual.
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I get no opps, but the machine will not respond to anything including
Stop-A. Did anything significant change between .13 .14 for
sparc32? Is there anything I should enable to help provide kernel
dumps?
Not responding to Stop-A is unusual. But there's an easy way on
the SS5/170 : the
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