Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

On 5/9/19 1:52 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 5/9/19 19:42, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > On 5/9/19 1:35 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> > > Hi Dennis,
> > >
> > > On 5/9/19 18:29, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > > > On 5/9/19 12:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > > > Hello!
> > > > >
> > > > > I just uploaded updated installation images 2019-05-09 for the
> > > > > following Debian Ports architectures:
> > > > >
> > > > >   * alpha
> > > > >   * hppa
> > > > >   * ia64
> > > > >   * m68k
> > > > >   * powerpc
> > > > >   * ppc64
> > > > >   * sh4
> > > > >   * sparc64
> > > >
> > > > I tried to breath life into an old Netra which was just too old for
> > > > the task. Are you aware of any issues with the M3000 type machine?
> > > >
> > > > Or even M4000 ?
> > >
> > > I'm starting to wonder if my mails about ...
> >
> > No I am not ignoring you.
> >
> > I simply didn't recall over my coffee this morning.
> >
> > I have not looked at linux on sparc in ... nearly forever.  Possibly an
> > actual forever. There is no reason to think about it. Now I see from my
> > hardware list on hand there is even less reason to even bother testing.
> >
> > Thanks for listening.
>
> Please don't mind, I was just a little upset, as I assumed my mails on
> this topic were just wasted.
>
> [2] also has some further reading about this topic. Maybe you get in
> touch with Meelis Roos, who started a thread titled "Adding support for
> Fujitsu SPARC64 machines?" on the linux-sparc mailing list (see [3])
> some years ago. Maybe this can be revived.
>
> [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64#Installing_the_Debian_SPARC64_Port
>
> [3]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&m=142067252101925&w=2

I appreciate your patience and perserverance. I seem to have way way too
many little irons in the fire and too many machines running to recall
all the bits about all of them.  I don't think I am alone in that
experience.

In my mind an Oracle M4000 with 256G of memory and a stack of processor
cores is a terrible waste.  Baffles me that it can not run with even
some basic sparc v9 type mode. Regardless the devices are most likely an
issue also.


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Dennis Clarke
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