Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-11 Thread Blue Swirl
On 7/10/07, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2007 14:30:38 Blue Swirl wrote: The sparc platform has a problem that if I boot with init as a hello world program everything behaves as expected (there are two in the image for testing purposes, /tools/bin/hello-dynamic

Re: [Detaolb-devel] [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-11 Thread Christian MICHON
On 7/11/07, Blue Swirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's entirely possibly that qemu and real sparc hardware are behaving differently, but I'm not seeing this bus error under qemu. (I haven't got real sparc hardware, so I can only debug against qemu...) Right. Debugging the problem I found out

Re: [Detaolb-devel] [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-11 Thread Christian MICHON
On 7/11/07, Christian MICHON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just managed a compilation of bash-3.2 using ncurses-5.6 and uClibc-0.9.29 inside a qemu-system-sparc (native compilation, no cross compilation). ldd ./bash points naturally to libdl.so.0, libc.so.0, ld-uClibc.so.0 ./bash Segmentation

Re: [Detaolb-devel] [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 9:34:17 am Christian MICHON wrote: I just managed a compilation of bash-3.2 using ncurses-5.6 and uClibc-0.9.29 inside a qemu-system-sparc (native compilation, no cross compilation). ldd ./bash points naturally to libdl.so.0, libc.so.0, ld-uClibc.so.0 ./bash

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 11 July 2007 7:17:28 am Blue Swirl wrote: On 7/10/07, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2007 14:30:38 Blue Swirl wrote: The sparc platform has a problem that if I boot with init as a hello world program everything behaves as expected (there are two in

Re: [Detaolb-devel] [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-11 Thread Christian MICHON
On 7/11/07, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you get that kind of segmentation fault, see if hello world segfaults too. (In general, when building with a new toolchain, new C library, new kernel, new root filesystem packaging method, or a new system in general, if anything goes wrong

Re: [Detaolb-devel] [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-11 Thread Christian MICHON
On 7/11/07, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I look forward to a fix. It would be nice to add sparc to the actually works list. :) that's 2 persons looking forward to it. ;-) today's results: - uclibc ok (minus the segfaults coming from it) - conf from busybox segfaults - bash segfaults

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-10 Thread Rob Landley
On Saturday 30 June 2007 13:15:44 Blue Swirl wrote: On 6/30/07, Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johannes Schindelin wrote: Hi, On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Blue Swirl wrote: On 6/30/07, Christian MICHON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DetaolB aimed to be a much-less-than-a-floppy x86

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-10 Thread Blue Swirl
The sparc platform has a problem that if I boot with init as a hello world program everything behaves as expected (there are two in the image for testing purposes, /tools/bin/hello-dynamic and /tools/bin/hello-static). But if you boot with init=/tools/bin/bash it hangs. And so do the busybox

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-10 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 14:30:38 Blue Swirl wrote: The sparc platform has a problem that if I boot with init as a hello world program everything behaves as expected (there are two in the image for testing purposes, /tools/bin/hello-dynamic and /tools/bin/hello-static). But if you boot

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-10 Thread Bernhard Fischer
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:54:48PM +0200, Cedric Hombourger wrote: The busybox link failure has an existing entry in mantis: http://www.uclibc.org/bugs/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=1356 Just to expand on this one last time, here is the help-text of taskset: config TASKSET bool

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-10 Thread Christian MICHON
On 7/10/07, Bernhard Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:54:48PM +0200, Cedric Hombourger wrote: The busybox link failure has an existing entry in mantis: http://www.uclibc.org/bugs/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=1356 Just to expand on this one last time, here is the

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-06 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 16:32:44 Christian MICHON wrote: On 7/4/07, Andreas Färber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a special reason to use Aurora? I thought it was an abandoned port of Fedora Core 2... (with Fedora 7 available nowadays) Debian was the only maintained Sparc distribution

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-05 Thread Christian MICHON
ok, I found this file (google for it): stage3-sparc-2006.0.tar.bz2 I put it into a vmdk image file, preformatted in ext2 fs. I touched up a few files and used the sparc kernel and binaries from the qemu-windows page. I've now a native compiler for sparc32. I managed some stuff with it already.

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-05 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 16:11:19 Christian MICHON wrote: On 7/4/07, Cedric Hombourger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to look at crosskit.sourceforge.net thanks for this hint. I haven't looked at detaoib yet but it was surely created before crosskit and may therefore be a safer

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-05 Thread Christian MICHON
On 7/5/07, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the difference between deltaolb and Firmware Linux, anyway? I'm still curious about this. a few differences, quite minor actually (that's why I said in the past we shared many common goals :-) )... I actually started this in 2002, but

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-04 Thread Christian MICHON
On 6/30/07, Blue Swirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the number of Sparc32 distributions keeps approaching zero, could you consider porting DetaolB to non-x86 CPUs? ok, I documented myself, and I'll try on sparc32. any hint on patches, config files for the kernel ? will uclibc work well enough

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-04 Thread Cedric Hombourger
Hi, You may want to look at crosskit.sourceforge.net (a crosstool/buildroot-like project that I have recently started and that you can find on sourceforge). Following your e-mails, I have added sparc support. The toolchain builds fine but busybox fails to link (sched_getaffinity and

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-04 Thread Cedric Hombourger
The busybox link failure has an existing entry in mantis: http://www.uclibc.org/bugs/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=1356 2007/7/4, Cedric Hombourger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, You may want to look at crosskit.sourceforge.net (a crosstool/buildroot-like project that I have recently started and

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-04 Thread Christian MICHON
On 7/4/07, Cedric Hombourger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to look at crosskit.sourceforge.net thanks for this hint. I haven't looked at detaoib yet but it was surely created before crosskit and may therefore be a safer bet. DetaolB aims to be a native solution, not a cross

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-04 Thread Blue Swirl
On 7/4/07, Christian MICHON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed spurious fast keyboard repeats. Like I must be extra careful when typing commands when in the qemu-system-sparc guest. I thought that was fixed some time ago, but I'll check. I plan to build uclibc and the rest natively from

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-04 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 04.07.2007 um 21:45 schrieb Christian MICHON: I plan to build uclibc and the rest natively from aurora linux 2.99 Is there a special reason to use Aurora? I thought it was an abandoned port of Fedora Core 2... (with Fedora 7 available nowadays) Debian was the only maintained Sparc

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-04 Thread Christian MICHON
On 7/4/07, Blue Swirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aurora is fine, Debian should work on Sparc too. when trying to boot aurora, it stops and complains about /dev/sda I already gave a hda disk. is it a problem of size or a problem of command line switch ? what command line did you use when you

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-04 Thread Christian MICHON
On 7/4/07, Andreas Färber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a special reason to use Aurora? I thought it was an abandoned port of Fedora Core 2... (with Fedora 7 available nowadays) Debian was the only maintained Sparc distribution I could recently find for qemu. that's the only port I found.

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-04 Thread Blue Swirl
On 7/4/07, Christian MICHON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/4/07, Blue Swirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aurora is fine, Debian should work on Sparc too. when trying to boot aurora, it stops and complains about /dev/sda I already gave a hda disk. is it a problem of size or a problem of command

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-07-04 Thread Christian MICHON
On 7/4/07, Blue Swirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what command line did you use when you reported a successful installation of aurora earlier this year ? qemu-system-sparc -boot d -hda aurora-1.0.img -cdrom aurora-1.0-sparc-disc1.iso I tested Aurora 1.0 and 2.0, 2.1 can't read from cdrom. I

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-06-30 Thread Blue Swirl
On 6/30/07, Christian MICHON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DetaolB aimed to be a much-less-than-a-floppy x86 linux live distro. Now, it's evolving more into a-la-slax type of distro. As the number of Sparc32 distributions keeps approaching zero, could you consider porting DetaolB to non-x86 CPUs?

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-06-30 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Blue Swirl wrote: On 6/30/07, Christian MICHON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DetaolB aimed to be a much-less-than-a-floppy x86 linux live distro. Now, it's evolving more into a-la-slax type of distro. As the number of Sparc32 distributions keeps approaching zero,

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-06-30 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Johannes Schindelin wrote: Hi, On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Blue Swirl wrote: On 6/30/07, Christian MICHON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DetaolB aimed to be a much-less-than-a-floppy x86 linux live distro. Now, it's evolving more into a-la-slax type of distro. As the number of Sparc32

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-06-30 Thread Christian MICHON
On 6/30/07, Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason why distributions drop sparc32 is the unmaintained kernel. Nobody stepped up for Linux kernel maintenance in the last years. Debian managed to keep up a sort-of working kernel for the last release, the people who put their time into

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-06-30 Thread Christian MICHON
On 6/30/07, Johannes Schindelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Blue Swirl wrote: On 6/30/07, Christian MICHON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DetaolB aimed to be a much-less-than-a-floppy x86 linux live distro. Now, it's evolving more into a-la-slax type of distro. As the

Re: [Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-06-30 Thread Blue Swirl
On 6/30/07, Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johannes Schindelin wrote: Hi, On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Blue Swirl wrote: On 6/30/07, Christian MICHON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DetaolB aimed to be a much-less-than-a-floppy x86 linux live distro. Now, it's evolving more into a-la-slax

[Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.4 is released

2007-06-29 Thread Christian MICHON
DetaolB aimed to be a much-less-than-a-floppy x86 linux live distro. Now, it's evolving more into a-la-slax type of distro. DetaolB v0.4 has been released 29th,June 2007 on sf.net = http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=140321package_id=155481release_id=519786 Mailing list: