Re: Good news on Debian Sparc port stability

2015-06-22 Thread Kezia
James Y Knight jyknight at google.com writes: I've recently acquired a Sparc T3-1, and installed Debian Unstable's Sparc port on it, as a guest in a Oracle VM Server for Sparc (ldm) VM. I ran into a few issues, that I've cataloged in a story below. But it has a happy ending! Kernel

Re: Good news on Debian Sparc port stability

2015-06-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Jun 4, 2015, at 11:07 AM, James Y Knight wrote: I hope this can help avoid Sparc needing to be deleted from Debian... The official criteria for being in the main archive and being released in a Debian stable release are available here: https://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-criteria.html

Re: Good news on Debian Sparc port stability

2015-06-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Jun 4, 2015, at 11:07 AM, James Y Knight wrote: I'm not sure what lack of proper kernel support means I guess that is referring to the trouble DSA were having with sompek and stadler, which would freeze almost every day and have to be reset via the ALOM management processor. This was solved

Re: Good news on Debian Sparc port stability

2015-06-05 Thread Patrick Baggett
I would ask David S. Miller about the sparc ASM stuff - he seems to be the resident sparc genius and linux kernel maintainer. On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:18 PM, James Y Knight jykni...@google.com wrote: On Jun 4, 2015, at 11:07 AM, James Y Knight jykni...@google.com wrote: GLibc = After

Good news on Debian Sparc port stability

2015-06-04 Thread James Y Knight
I've recently acquired a Sparc T3-1, and installed Debian Unstable's Sparc port on it, as a guest in a Oracle VM Server for Sparc (ldm) VM. I ran into a few issues, that I've cataloged in a story below. But it has a happy ending! Kernel sunvdc module Installation wasn't