Re: Please test 2.6.29-5

[Hugh Pumphrey <hcp@staffmail.ed.ac.uk>]

Dear Jurij,

Jurij Smakov wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 02:21:27AM -0400, Howard Eisenberger wrote:
> > On 2009-05-18, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> >
> > > The 2.6.29-5 kernel package, uploaded to sid a couple of days ago, has
> > > successfully built on sparc. As previous versions were failing for
> > > various reasons, this is the first 2.6.29 kernel available for sparc
> > > in Debian. If you have a chance, please test it and report your
> > > findings. 
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Using dpkg -i to Lenny this kernel works for me on Ultra 5 and
> > Ultra 60 (smp).
>
> Thanks for the information. I believe Ultra 60 is Ultrasparc II machine,
> and SunBlade 1000 is Ultrasparc III. Did someone manage to run this
> kernel successfully on an Ultrasparc III box?

No joy on my SunBlade 100. The kernel fails to boot properly but it does 
not always stick at the same point. One time the last message was

ide-cd driver 5.00

Another time the last message was to do with a USB SD-card reader. A 
third time it was to do with a USB keyboard. A fourth time it got as far 
as init, but was snowed under by SCSI errors.

I note that the CPU on this machine is:

holly:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu             : TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird)
fpu             : UltraSparc IIe integrated FPU
prom            : OBP 4.0.45 2001/02/08 14:33
type            : sun4u
ncpus probed    : 1
ncpus active    : 1
D$ parity tl1   : 0
I$ parity tl1   : 0
Cpu0ClkTck      : 000000001debe980
MMU Type        : Spitfire

I also note that the entry in silo.conf reads

image=/vmlinuz-2.6.29-2-sparc64
       label=Linux2.6.29
       initrd=/initrd.img-2.6.29-2-sparc64
       append="video=atyfb:off ide=nodma"

DMA disc access has never worked on this machine and it has always been 
necessary to disable the console framebuffer. I also note that the rest 
of the OS is "stable", should that matter.

I hope this is useful info

Best wishes

Hugh Pumphrey


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