Re: Debian Jessie regression under qemu-system-sparc64

>
> It looks like the regression has been introduced sometime between
> 4th-8th November:
>
> - Works, boots to the Debian installer
> http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/sparc/20141104-00:20/mini.iso
>
> - Doesn't work, crashes as above
> http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/sparc/20141108-00:22/mini.iso
>
> Does any know what has changed that could have caused this regression?

Panic over.

It seems that the latest build has increased the memory requirement
above QEMU's 128MB built-in default. Increasing the RAM to 256MB seems
to get things going again:

$ ./qemu-system-sparc64 -m 256 -cdrom
/home/build/src/qemu/image/sparc64/mini.iso -boot d -nographic

I guess everyone has more RAM in their SPARC hardware these days?

One virtue of the SPARC machines is that they have really high max RAM capacity relative to their time. I haven't owned a SPARC machine with less than 1GB.

Patrick

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