Hi, I gave the installer a try in emulated 32Mhz Falcon, using just released Hatari v2.3.1 emulator: https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/doc/release-notes.txt 030 cache and prefetch emulation still need to be disabled for kernel to boot. That's same both with minimal monolithic v5.10 m68k kernel built from sources with GCC v8.3, and with the modular v5.10 from Debian kernel package. I noticed few issues with the Debian installer: * It doesn't invert highlighted row on monochrome resolutions, so it's unusable on them. Maybe it should refuse to run in unsupported resolutions? * While kernel runs init a minute after being booted [1], installer is *much* slower. E.g. after pressing Enter to select another country, it takes 5-10 mins until installer presents me with a list from which I can select Europe * Non-ASCII language names in language selection screen aren't shown with correct console fonts (NatFeats output of the same text on my x86 Debian host gnome terminal looked fine) Testing things this far took at least hour for each run, due to installer slowness. Does anybody happen to have an already installed minimal and up to date Debian m68k disk image? I've updated Hatari m68k-linux doc instructions on how to run these tests in case somebody else wants also to test. Doc will get exported here in few hours: https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/doc/m68k-linux.txt - Eero [1] Hatari profiler shows kernel CPU usage to go in boot, until first sbrk() system call, to: ------------------------------------------------ Executed instructions: 19.16% 25366973 memset 7.97% 10548067 memcpy 3.31% 4379652 _parse_integer 1.88% 2489653 bit_putcs 1.85% 2452344 link_path_walk 1.82% 2406272 atafb_mfb_linefill 1.26% 1672580 memmap_init_zone 1.26% 1664687 timekeeping_advance 1.10% 1452290 strlen 1.07% 1422344 get_page_from_freelist 1.05% 1388376 psi_group_change.constprop.0 0.94% 1240372 kmem_cache_alloc 0.71% 936593 add_interrupt_randomness 0.69% 909479 __d_lookup_rcu 0.68% 896967 __ashldi3 0.64% 849576 atafb_imageblit 0.62% 822723 kernfs_name_hash 0.62% 820971 __list_add_valid 0.54% 708561 notify_change 0.51% 679840 __free_one_page ------------------------------------------------ In cycles, memcpy() uses a bit more compared to memset(), but memset() still takes most CPU. Attached are partial callgraphs showing where they're most called from. Percentages in the arrow lines indicate each function node's share of those calls. (It's probably not too interesting, but IMHO fairly good demonstration of what the Hatari profiler can do for m68k kernel-side debugging & optimization, even without cycle accurate 030 cache emulation.) On 12/3/20 4:05 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I uploaded updated Debian installer CD images today. These come with the latest versions of the kernel and the debian-installer application as well as various other updates. The images can be found at the usual location [1] as well as the debian-installer for netboot [2]. Known issues: - We still don't have support for contrib and non-free, so the images are missing non-free firmware. It is planned that the Debian Ports FTP server will be extended to support contrib and non-free but I don't have any influence on that as this is up to the Debian Ports FTP maintainers. So far, I have tested the images on sparc64 only. Please test on the other architectures and report back. Thanks, Adrian[1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2020-12-03/ [2] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/2020-12-03/
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