From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4337C433E0 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 09:06:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98DF723A56 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 09:06:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725995AbhAPJF5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jan 2021 04:05:57 -0500 Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.66]:47183 "EHLO outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726111AbhAPJFX (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jan 2021 04:05:23 -0500 Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.94) with esmtps (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1l0hVg-003ahU-W8; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:04:40 +0100 Received: from dynamic-078-055-056-042.78.55.pool.telefonica.de ([78.55.56.42] helo=[192.168.1.10]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.94) with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (envelope-from ) id 1l0hVg-003CoK-Ax; Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:04:40 +0100 Subject: Re: Booting Linux on Sun3 machines To: Sam Creasey Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-m68k References: <9fd0f739-1b4b-6ce1-6a02-02375b4b574f@physik.fu-berlin.de> <20210116010503.GI1344617@anhedonia> From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Message-ID: <36851b1c-ee19-3545-d21b-e4f62edc91de@physik.fu-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:04:39 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210116010503.GI1344617@anhedonia> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-Sender: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de X-Originating-IP: 78.55.56.42 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Hi Sam! On 1/16/21 2:05 AM, Sam Creasey wrote: > Honestly, it probably doesn't boot. The last kernel I knew to boot > successfully was 2.6.16, and that required patches. I guess then we have something to fix :-). > My last round of notes is still here: https://sammy.net/sun3/ OK, thank you. I will have a look. > It does include links to a compiled bootloader to netboot a sun3, and > a very ancient debian userland (though if you get to trying to load > init, I'd call that a victory). Great. I will probably try the old stuff first, then switch to a newer kernel and report any issues I run into to the list. > I don't believe I ever wrote up full boot instructions, but the > bootloader is a fork of the NetBSD one, so if you can get > rarp/tftp/nfs/etc working well enough to netboot that, you're in the > right place to try to netboot a Linux kernel. I don't currently have > a boot server configured, but I might be able to find some time to > set something up and help you debug if you get that far. I've > certainly still got hardware to test with. Sounds good. Let's get this back into working state! Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913