Re: New NETINST iso stuff not quite right for SPARC-S7
Hi Dannis,
On Thu, 2025-11-13 at 00:11 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> neptune# curl -L --url
> 'https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-11-11/debian-13.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso'
> -O
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
> Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left
> Speed
> 100 367 100 367 0 0 803 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--
> 803
> 100 321M 100 321M 0 0 1670k 0 0:03:17 0:03:17 --:--:--
> 1729k
> neptune#
You don't need to post console output like this, just link the URL.
> What I did and saw on the ORACLE S7-2 with an LDOM is a slightly wonky
> install menu process. However that may simply be because the console
> to the LDOM is via telnet and that *always* is wonky weird for a LDOM.
This is a known issue that has existed for a long time. I will open a bug
report for it.
> Eventually I was able to finish the install and reboot :
>
> Loading Linux 6.17.7+deb14+1-sparc64-smp ...
> Loading initial ramdisk ...
>
> [ 0.585809] ds-0: ds_conn_reset() from ldc_rx
> /dev/vdiskb3: clean, 29371/3039232 files, 749002/12142080 blocks
>
> Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid neso ttyHV0
>
> neso login: root
> Password:
> Linux neso 6.17.7+deb14+1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 6.17.7-2
> (2025-11-06) sparc64
>
> The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
> the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
> individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
>
> Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
> permitted by applicable law.
> root@neso:~#
Again, no need to post console output like this. It doesn't carry any useful
information.
> root@neso:~# uname -a
> Linux neso 6.17.7+deb14+1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 6.17.7-2
> (2025-11-06) sparc64 GNU/Linux
> root@neso:~#
> root@neso:~# lscpu
> Architecture: sparc64
> CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
> Byte Order: Big Endian
> CPU(s): 16
> On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15
> Model name: SPARC-M7
> Thread(s) per core: 8
> Core(s) per socket: 2
> Socket(s): 1
> Flags: sun4v
> Caches (sum of all):
> L1d: 256 KiB (16 instances)
> L1i: 256 KiB (16 instances)
> L2: 4 MiB (16 instances)
> NUMA:
> NUMA node(s): 1
> NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-15
> root@neso:~#
> root@neso:~# head -4 /proc/cpuinfo
> cpu : SPARC-M7
> fpu : SPARC-M7 integrated FPU
> pmu : sparc-m7
> prom : OBP 4.43.14 2025/02/17 03:22
> root@neso:~#
>
>
>
> * * * That looks wrong * * *
> (...)
> So some important patches are absent.
Which is why I explicitly said in my announcement mail to check for open
bug reports if you're testing on SPARC. The bug you are mentioning here
is already documented in the bug tracker and as long as the bug is open,
the issue persists:
https://github.com/sparclinux/issues/issues/4
I can only work on so many things at a time.
Adrian
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