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Re: Sparc Hey

BRM — 2012-11-14T12:31:30

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Re: install-sparc64-minimal-20110829 init stops when setting system clock

Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto — 2011-09-02T02:21:41

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Hi.

On 02-09-2011 01:31, Jim Faulkner wrote:

Raúl (armin76) noticed this past week that the install-cds weren't
bringing up the login script. He tracked it down to an issue with the
livecd-tools ebuild and fixed it.
So we're sorry about this, but it should be fixed on the next run of the
auto-builds.


- -- 
Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng
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install-sparc64-minimal-20110829 init stops when setting systemclock

Jim Faulkner — 2011-09-02T01:31:26

I'm trying to get my Sun Blade 100 going w/ install-sparc64-minimal-20110829.iso
but the init system gets stuck at "Setting the system clock using the
hardware clock [UTC]".

That's not to say the system locks up:  I can type characters and they
show up on the screen, but init doesn't let me proceed past the setting
system clock script.  The machine is definitely still working.  I've
waited 10 or 15 minutes but init won't give up on the "Setting the
system clock" script.

Actually I can ctrl-c out of it the first time init tries to start the
script, before runlevel 3.  But as soon as it enters runlevel 3 it tries
to start the system clock script again and I'm unable to ctrl-c out of
it.

I see in my kernel messages before modules are loaded that the kernel
successfully sets the system clock from the hardware clock:  apparently
install-sparc64-minimal-20110829.iso's kernel has CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS
set.  On my x86 systems /etc/conf.d/hwclock tells me "You do not need
this if you are running a modern kernel with

Re: Linux/SPARC64 Hardware Compatibility List

Alex Buell — 2010-11-12T23:21:05


I did not encounter issues with the FC-AL disks nor with the gigabit
ethernet cards, so yes, these probably have been resolved. 

I use an initrd (ramfs) with the kernel to boot the disks, was a
complete PITA to get set up but once booting it all works beautifully. I
put the firmware into the initrd, but compiling the firmware into the
kernel also works just as well but the initrd method is probably better
contrary to the wisdom put forth in the sparc forums on Gentoo.

Re: Linux/SPARC64 Hardware Compatibility List

BRM — 2010-11-12T23:01:06

I use to have a Sun Blade2000 Workstation, I believe mine was a 900MHZ model.
I concur that it's pretty stable with Gentoo and Sparc64.

I had two issues with it:
1.  The QLogic QLA2000 controller.
Namely because you have to build the initrd disk image to load before you can 
get to the hard drive,
at least post 2.6.16 or 2.6.18. May be they corrected that again; not sure. 
(Issue was a firmware
blob was needed; I somewhere 2.6.16-18 they stopped letting you build the blob 
into the kernel,
thus the initrd was then required and not easy to get setup either.)

2. The NIC, at least when I ran it several years back, didn't auto-sense 
properly.

However, I can't say if either of those are still issues or not since I am no 
longer at the company
where I had that box, so I don't run the Sparc64 one any more. It'd be great to 
know if those
issues were resolved as I do know of another equivalent box that was running 
into those same
issues, and the maintainers aren't as savvy - they may not be using it now as a 
r

Linux/SPARC64 Hardware Compatibility List

Alex Buell — 2010-11-12T21:45:12

Four years ago I sent in an email with my box's details. This time I
have two new boxes; 

Model - Ultra 60
Kernel - 2.6.34-gentoo-r11
Stability - Excellent
OBP - 3.31
Net - Yes (HME)
Sound - Yes (CS4321)
Framebuffer - sunffb
Submitter - alexbuell
Comments - Dual 360MHz processors, 2GB RAM, 2 x 36GB SCSI SCA disks.
Console and X11 working well. Minor problems with GNOME/Firefox need
resolving.

Model - Sun Blade 2000
Kernel - 2.6.34-gentoo-r12
Stability - Excellent
OBP - 4.16.4
Sound - Yes (can't remember which chipset)
Framebuffer - xvr500 
Submitter - alexbuell
Comments - Dual 1.2GHz processors, 4GB RAM, 2 x 73GB FC-AL disks.
Console working well, need X11 fbdev although display looks corrupted,
X11 still works fine. As above, minor problems with GNOME/Firefox needs
sorting although I intend to help fix those problems.

Regards,
Alex