Re: Sparc release requalification

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 09:23:36PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>
> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:40:28 +0100
> 
> > http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-sparc64-smp_2.6.30-8~bpo50+1_sparc.deb
> > 
> > To extract, use:
> > 
> >   dpkg-deb -x linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-sparc64-smp_2.6.30-8~bpo50+1_sparc.deb newdir
> > 
> > And then you have newdir/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-bpo.2-sparc64-smp etc
> 
> I've tried everything to reproduce this.
> 
> I've tried building 2.6.31.6 -stable from Josip's config using
> Debian stable's compiler (gcc-4.3.2)

I think you need to build with the gcc from unstable to reproduce the failure.
Lenny kernels have been booting fine on my box (SunBlade 1000), unstable kernels
started failing about 3 months ago. I might have some time over the weekend to
build the current unstable kernel with both stable and unstable gcc to verify
that it's unstable gcc which causes problems.
 
> I've also tried the image in that dpkg.
> 
> All of them boot fine on my two similarly configured UltraSPARC-IIIi
> systems.
> 
> I'll try to think some more about this, but meanwhile if you have some
> means by which to make your V240 available to me online to do somet
> debugging that would be really useful.
> 
> You can see from Hermann's providing access to his V480 to me once I
> have access I tend to fix the bug within a day or two :-)
> 
> 
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