Re: Resurrecting Debian on SPARC

[James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>]

On 10/13/2015 12:21 AM, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 11:44 +1100, James Morris wrote:
> > FYI,
> >
> > Oracle developers have been working on Sparc Linux (as some may have
> > noticed from lkml commits).  We've just made an initial cut of this
> > available publicly, for the purposes of sharing it with the wider
> > community.
> >
> > See https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/
> >
> > There are some mailing lists, a git repo, installable distro etc.
> >
> > I hope that some of this work will be useful to the Debian project,
> > and please feel free to provide us with feedback.
>
> Checking: Did you know James, a serious sparc64 bug is solved in Stable
> git tree? It's not committed in linux-uek.git yet?
>
> sparc64: Fix userspace FPU register corruptions, as David said, this
> bug is about two decades old.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/lo
> g/?id=refs%2Ftags%2Fv4.1.10&qt=grep&q=sparc

Hi Frans,

I've confirmed that the fix was in the released kernel and it's in the 
git tree.

Check out the tag:

$ git checkout -b my_lfs v4.1.8-15.1

Then you'll find the fix in commit 30471d04c2a3b1471a28d1ccf898bada2d3fc9ce


- James