Re: Bug#248986: Installation report of Sarge Beta 4 on sparc
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 04:11:08PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org> [2004-05-14 16:53]:
> > > > I did not have any problem, only some warning during boot of the CDROM
> > > > about unimplemented SPARC instruction.
> > >
> > When I boot I still have these warnings:
> > % dmesg | grep Unimplemented
> > readlink[12]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> > S02mountvirtfs[11]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> > touch[13]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> > mountpoint[14]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> > mount[15]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> > grep[16]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> >
> > I got the same type of warnings between the boot of the CDROM kernel and
> > the first stage of the installer.
>
> Let's ask debian-sparc about this. So apparently the system boots
> fine, but those warnings are displayed. Can/should anything be done
> about this?
Those are meaningless. They are the result of libc's attempt to use LFS
syscalls, and the sparc32 syscall translations not knowing them. They
don't affect anything and can be ignored.
--
Debian - http://www.debian.org/
Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/
Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
Reply to: