Re: M4000 failing to boot Debian Sparc64
Hi,
On 02.07.23 16:35, Vocalía Infraestructura TIC CEEINA wrote:
Hi Frank,
Thank you for your fast answer. I also thought when installing that it
was an incompatibility problem with the processor architecture, as you
stated.
However, having a look at the wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64
<https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64>) it seems to me that machines with a
sun4u SPARC VII+ processor should be able to run it, right? Our M4000
has a VII+ processor.
Can you post the kernel messages for your boot, so we can reference it
in the Debian Wiki? Maybe by comparing them to what was posted about a
M3000 with SPARC64 VII on [1] and SPARC64 V on [2], we can conclude if
support for SPARC64 VII+ is any better than for those other processors.
[1]:
https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/linux-sparc-users/2017-October/000027.html
[2]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/09/msg00017.html
You don't happen to have a SPARC64 X based system for testing? I think I
never saw a dmesg from such a system, too.
Maybe I have not fully understood the wiki or your message, therefore
sorry if I'm wrong.
I went through the history of changes and the one that adds the
information about SPARC64 processors ([3]) was done by an Alex McWhirter.
[3]: https://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64?action=diff&rev1=25&rev2=26
Checking my email archive I actually even asked him (via
alexmcwhirter@triadic.us, though not sure if that is the correct
address) exactly about this change, but never got a reply IIRC.
Cheers,
Frank
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