Testing 2.6.10 on sparc
Hello people,
Recently there was an irc meeting of the debian-kernel team and various
port maintainers [0] in an attempt to decide whether it is feasible to
switch all arches from 2.6.8 to 2.6.10 kernel for sarge. As I happened to
be the only one of the sparc fame attending, I was asked to figure out the
current situation with 2.6.10. Therefore, I would like to ask people to
report their successes/failures with 2.6.10. That's the information we
have today:
sparc32
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I have put together a 2.6.10 kernel-image (current kernel-source-2.6.10
plus some of William Irwin's patches [1]), which boots on my SS10.
It appears to mostly work (no oopses), but I have noticed that it corrupts
the stuff in /var/lib/dpkg whenever dpkg is used :-((, breaking it hard.
My machine is using ROSS Hypersparc processor, and it might be
CPU-specific. I would appreciate, if someone could test it on other types
of sparc32 hardware. Note, that this kernel image is highly EXPERIMENTAL
and may COMPLETELY BREAK the machine, to the point of reinstallation being
required. It can be downloaded from [2].
sparc64
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Nothing is known so far. Frans Pop is building some sparc64 images, which
should hopefully be available tomorrow. We'll do some preliminary testing
and if they at least boot, will make them publicly available.
[0] http://minbar.dodds.net/~vorlon/kernel-2.6.10-discussion.log
[1] http://www.wooyd.org/debian/patches/2.6.10-wli-sparc32-unapplied.patch
[2] http://www.wooyd.org/debian/kernels/kernel-image-2.6.10-1-sparc32_2.6.10-1_sparc.deb
Thanks and best regards,
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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