Re: Testing 2.6.10 on sparc
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:17:03AM -0500, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> sparc32
> -------
> 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].
My sparcstation 4 has been turned off for many months now, so this seems like a
good reason to turn it on again (and i don't really care if it breaks).. Will
report back.
> sparc64
> -------
> 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.
I've run it for some time on my Ultra 5. Two problems..
The ati framebuffer driver doesn't work (the screen just stays black), a friend
of mine has the same problem on his blade 100.. This is a regression as it
worked fine with 2.6.9 and 2.6.8
And the alsa 32 bit emulation code will hang your machine quite hard, which
has been fixed in 2.6.11-rc1 or rc2 iirc. But this happens with all 2.6
kernels, would be nice it it was fixed for sarge though :)
Sjoerd
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What is now proved was once only imagin'd.
-- William Blake
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