Re: sparc status? A cry for information, and an offer to help
You didn't Cc: your reply back to the list. In general, you should, since
my answers will be valuable to others. I am taking the liberty of Cc:ing
this all back to the list now.
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Michael Mattice wrote:
> Jules Bean writes:
> > I see the following problems with my SS2:
> >
> > 1) The boot disks don't work. Not an issue for me, but important to some
> > people.
>
> Really?? They worked wonderfully for my SS5 after not getting
> ARP/RARP to work with my i386 linux box.
>
They work fine on some machines, but the fail on others. Sufficiently
reproducibly that I suspect a genuine problem, not just bad floppy drives.
> > 3) 'ldd' doesn't work - and possibly other components of ld-linux.so.
> > Random segfaults are probably related to this. This makes packaged
> > compilation tricky, since dpkg-shlibs won't work.
>
> I've had some problems with compiling things for sparc repackaging
> as well. I haven't even been able to get to that point though. To many
> include deps.
>
> > 4) There are problems with the virtual console/X code. X sometimes
> > 'steals' a vc for no apparent reason. Sometimes keymaps get messed up
> > too.
>
> Where did you find X for the Sparc? I can't find the server anywhere.
> If there is more setup involved to getting it limping than on i386, we probably
> need a HOWTO.
>
Getting it to work is *far* easier than on the i386. As to finding it -
check the mailing list archives, at www.debian.org (this list). There are
some messages about a fortnight ago about it. I forget the precise URL,
it is on netg.se somewhere.
> > So, I think there are some things we could do with here.
> >
> > I would like to see a debian-sparc web page, and a debian-sparc FAQ. I
> > will happily put these together.
>
> Extremely agreed. www.debian.org mentions the sparc port, but the
> packages pages totally neglect everything but the i386 version. If you'd
> like some help, I'm lacking some overall direction as to where to begin. I'd
> like to get ncpfs running but overall, the lack of packages is overwhelming.
I'm glad I have a second. I now would like some response from the people
who got the port as far as it is, so I know the current status of
things...
Jules
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