Re: kernel fix for SB1500
Hi Dave,
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, David S. Miller wrote:
Without these attached patches (for 2.4.x and 2.6.x respectively)
the test images won't boot on current SunBlade-1500 systems.
It's just a missing clock model string.
I have commited these patches to the kernel-source 2.4.27-9, 2.6.8-14, and
2.6.10-6 [0] in the debian-kernel SVN repository [1].
If these could get into the daily testing images, I'd appreciate
it :-)
Unfortunately, it takes quite a while for the patches introduced into
the Debian's kernel-source to propagate to the testing images. First,
the updated kernel-source has to be uploaded, then the corresponding
kernel-images have to be built from it and uploaded as well. Next step
is building of kernel udebs (used by d-i) from these kernel images.
Finally, once kernel udebs hit sid, they will be used to build the
sid_d-i daily images.
To make a long story short, if you just want a netboot image which
incorporates these changes, the shortest path is to use the current
kernel-source in testing to build the modified kernel-image, then the
kernel udebs based on it, and finally the netboot image. The whole
procedure is not very documented though :-). If you can wait until
weekend, I'll probably be able to build one for you.
Please also make sure that both CONFIG_RADEON and CONFIG_TIGON3
are set to "y" in these kernels as SunBlade1500 will need that
for console and network install.
CONFIG_TIGON3 is currently set to 'm', which seems sufficient, given that
it will make it to the initrd. Enabling CONFIG_FB_RADEON (that's the one
which is wanted, I presume) should not be a problem.
Thanks.
PS: Could you guys publish the initrd.img file you use to generate
the tftpboot.img files? Ben always provided those and it makes
bootstrapping new systems that need kernel mods to work much
easier.
Joshua Kwan is building the netboot dailies [2]. I'll forward that request
to him (or he'll read it himself :-).
[0] http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/debian-kernel/.message/4499799
[1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/trunk/?rev=0&sc=0
[2] http://people.debian.org/~joshk/d-i/images/daily/
Best regards,
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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