As I don't have any M-class gear myself, I have to rely on the info
given in the mailing list threads mentioned on [1]. Though it will never
hurt to try again if you have the hardware, as the threads were already
from late 2017 and 2015 respectively. Things might be different now,
although I
On 04/14/2018 08:53 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 04/14/2018 08:26 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
I have successfully tested GRUB on a PRIMEPOWER 250 with SPARC64 V+
(see [1]). The problem is that the Linux kernel doesn't work on any
Fujitsu SPARC64 gear currently, not even on newer M-class machines
Hi Adrian,
On 04/14/2018 08:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Frank!
On 04/14/2018 08:26 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
I have successfully tested GRUB on a PRIMEPOWER 250 with SPARC64 V+
(see [1]). The problem is that the Linux kernel doesn't work on any
Fujitsu SPARC64 gear currently, n
On 14/04/18 02:32 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Frank!
On 04/14/2018 08:26 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
I have successfully tested GRUB on a PRIMEPOWER 250 with SPARC64 V+
(see [1]). The problem is that the Linux kernel doesn't work on any
Fujitsu SPARC64 gear currently, not even on new
Hi Frank!
On 04/14/2018 08:26 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
I have successfully tested GRUB on a PRIMEPOWER 250 with SPARC64 V+ (see [1]).
The problem is that the Linux kernel doesn't work on any Fujitsu SPARC64 gear
currently, not even on newer M-class machines (see [2]).
That reminds me: I wil
On 04/14/2018 06:11 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:>> FWIW, we also have
several machines with hypervisor support (sun4v).
I was thinking Oracle M-class gear and the late generation Fujitsu gear.
I have successfully tested GRUB on a PRIMEPOWER 250 with SPARC64 V+ (see
[1]). The problem is that the
On 14/04/18 12:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 04/14/2018 05:51 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I will have a look at sparc and debian shortly, if the install iso
images are sorted :-)
The current image should work fine.
You just gave me a good reason to fire up a sparc server. I will
On 04/14/2018 05:51 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I will have a look at sparc and debian shortly, if the install iso
images are sorted :-)
The current image should work fine.
You just gave me a good reason to fire up a sparc server. I will step up
to the plate on that and even grant you low leve
On 14/04/18 03:51 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Philip!
On 04/14/2018 09:00 AM, Phillip Stevens wrote:
So as a next step, I'm going to try to get aSparkle GeForce 9500 GT
512MB PCI video card working.
Sounds reasonable. Keep in mind that the nouveau driver *might* have
issues on you
On 04/14/2018 03:52 PM, Phillip Stevens wrote:
Doesn't show up in OpenFirmware. Doesn't show up in lspci or lshw.
Doesn't appear in dmesg. Not even a hint.
I can only guess that it is not actually 5V 33MHz 32bit PCI.
Otherwise there'd be something. Right?
Yes, it should show up in "lspci" at l
> On Apr 14, 2018, at 6:07 AM, Phillip Stevens
> wrote:
>
>>> So as a next step, I'm going to try to get aSparkle GeForce 9500 GT 512MB
>>> PCI video card working.
>
> Well I can't even get recognition that the card is on present the PCI bus.
> So there is a time to give up and do something pr
So as a next step, I'm going to try to get aSparkle GeForce 9500 GT
512MB PCI video card working.
>>
>> Well I can't even get recognition that the card is on present the PCI bus.
>> So there is a time to give up and do something profitable.
>> That is now.
>
> What does that mean? Does th
On 04/14/2018 03:07 PM, Phillip Stevens wrote:
So as a next step, I'm going to try to get aSparkle GeForce 9500 GT 512MB
PCI video card working.
Well I can't even get recognition that the card is on present the PCI bus.
So there is a time to give up and do something profitable.
That is now.
W
>> So as a next step, I'm going to try to get aSparkle GeForce 9500 GT 512MB
>> PCI video card working.
Well I can't even get recognition that the card is on present the PCI bus.
So there is a time to give up and do something profitable.
That is now.
> So, in case the nVidia card doesn't work, yo
Hi Philip!
On 04/14/2018 09:00 AM, Phillip Stevens wrote:
So as a next step, I'm going to try to get aSparkle GeForce 9500 GT 512MB PCI
video card working.
Sounds reasonable. Keep in mind that the nouveau driver *might* have
issues on your big-endian machine. So, in case the nVidia card doesn
I was unsuccessful in getting the PGX64 to work using the mach64 driver,
fortunately however there is the fbdev framebuffer driver which works fine.
So now I have a LXDE desktop on my Ultra5.
https://feilipu.me/2018/04/14/old-sunshine-migrating-ultra5-to-sparc64/
I was advised that trying to pur
>
> > Another module that is not available in sparc64 is the
> xserver-xorg-video-sunffb package.
> > https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/sparc/xserver-xorg-
> video-sunffb/download
> > It was last available for wheezy.
>
> That driver was completely removed from Debian. I'm not sure whether it's
>
On 04/08/2018 10:49 AM, Phillip Stevens wrote:
> Another module that is not available in sparc64 is the
> xserver-xorg-video-sunffb package.
> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/sparc/xserver-xorg-video-sunffb/download
> It was last available for wheezy.
That driver was completely removed from De
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