Re: xia01 is now Debianized for UltraLinux development!
Ward Deng <wdeng@KachinaTech.COM> writes:
> I have spent some time this weekend to update our xia01, an UltraSPARC
> system, to Debian 2.1 (slink). It went very smoothly. Thumbs up to all
> who contributed. The TFTP image is identical to the one used to install
> 32-bit Debian 2.1 on xia02, a SPARCstation LX. We have enough space
> to host a near-complete Debian mirror for i386 and SPARC architectures
> including incoming/. The cron runs rsync every other day.
> Now three systems (xia01-3) have two (xia01-2) running natively with
> Debian. The remaining xia03 is still running UltraPenguin 1.09. I can
> either convert it to Debian or upgrade it to the latest UP 1.19 and
> take it as a reference system. Let me know what you think.
If it has space, I'd say put Debian on one partition and UP 1.19 on
another, so we can, if we need a reference system, run UP in a
chrooted environment. (I've found it kinda handy to keep a RH
partition around to check symbols in the libraries, etc.) If
necessary, you could run sshd on a different port in the chrooted
environment to give easy access to both trees to normal users.
> Again, these three systems are publically accessible to all Debian
> developers and anyone who are interested in Debian UltraLinux project.
> I will assign you account if you ask. I certainly hope every developer
> get involved.
> I will test this distribution with more hardware configurations and
> document it in HTML some time next week. Frankly it is easy and smooth
> to install.
I've _very_ happy with how slink turned out. Back in January, I had
pretty much written off ultra support in slink, but Eric showed some
interest in adding support to boot floppies, so I went ahead an pushed
the Ultra changes into the distribution and did the CD stuff.
> Here is the latest motd:
> Welcome to Debian-UltraLinux Project!
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> xia01: UltraSPARC I-170, 64MB, 3.5GB(system+/home2), 13GB(/Debian)
> Debian 2.1 (slink) Kernel 2.2.1 (updated on 3/27/99)
> xia02: SPARCstation LX, 64MB, 1.08GB, Debian 2.1 (Slink)
> Kernel 2.2.1 (updated on 3/18/99)
> xia03: Sun Ultra30, UltraSPARC II-250, 128MB, 4.2GB(system and data)
> UltraPenguin-1.0.9, kernel 2.1.125
oh. We definitely want debian on xia03, then. It looks to be the
best system to compile stuff on.
> Note: xia01 and xia02 are contributed by Kachina Technologies, Inc.
> and xia03 is a loan system contributed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
If anybody is looking for sparc stuff to do:
Compile missing packages.
1.Go through the latest Ultrapenguin looking for "egcs" and "binutils"
patches for "lib64" stuff. I'm told that the support is already in
some of the build tools in UltraPenguin, and some preliminary sparc64
stuff will be available this summer.
2.Make sure Branden's new X code compiles on the Sparc - then merge in
all the changes from UltraPenguin, and the changes in the packages at:
http://ultra.linux.cz/ftp/OS/Linux/Sparc/local/XFree86/
(These are huge speed improvements for Creator boards - they will be
folded into UltraPenguin RSN.)
I am going to take a break for a bit from the core system stuff. I
have other work that I need to get done. I see that Ben Collins is
working on glibc, and I hope someone can take a look at X. (If not,
I'll do it eventually.)
I will have another go at the gnome 1.0 stuff when it slows down (most
of it is compiled and uploaded, but they keep incrementing the debian
revision numbers due to miscompiles on x86). FWIW, I just uploaded
apt 0.3.3 to Incoming on master, and "gnome-apt" to the gnome staging
area.
If you guys haven't checked it out already, do look at the sparc gnome
stuff, the apt magic is:
deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main
It runs fine on slink.
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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