Bug#495216: kernel 2.6.26.5 SMP boots and stable executing the installer so far

[Hermann Lauer <Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>]

After several unsucessful tries I found vanilla kernel 2.6.26.5 SMP
able to netboot on V480 and V880 and stable enough to execute
the installer. Fiddling with the modules now.

Things I found helpfull so far:

1) http://merkel.debian.org/~jurij/ for a default debian sparc kernel .config
2) a little script to extract the installer initramfs from the netboot images:

#!/usr/bin/python
# (C) Hermann Lauer 2008
# can be distibuted under GPLv3 or later

import sys

f=file(sys.argv[1])

GZIPSIG='\037\213\010'

x=f.read()
#print x.count('\037\213\010'),x.count('\037\236')

cnt=1
loc=0
while True:
	loc=x.find(GZIPSIG,loc)
	if loc<0: break
	fn="arch_%i.gz"%cnt
	print fn,loc
	f=file(fn,"w")
	f.write(x[loc:])
	f.close()
	loc+=1
	cnt+=1

3) make tftpboot.img ROOT_IMG=/tmp/arch_2.gz
4) bug #464445 for the qlogic firmware (not tested yet)

Greetings
  Hermann