Re: Sparc release requalification

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 11:57:45PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 09:42:12PM +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> > > > 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
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> Hm, OK, but that doesn't help explain why that exact image, a lenny
> backport, didn't work here...
> 
> JFTR the difference would be 4.3.2 vs. 4.3.4 per
> http://packages.debian.org/gcc-4.3

I've upgraded to the latest unstable on my box today, and this pulled in the
stock Debian 2.6.31 kernel, which, amusingly, boots just fine:

jurij@debian:~$ uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.31-1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Mon Nov 16 14:12:48 UTC 2009 sparc GNU/Linux
jurij@debian:~$ zcat /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-1-sparc64-smp | strings | grep gcc | head -1
Linux version 2.6.31-1-sparc64-smp (Debian 2.6.31-2) (ben@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-6) ) #1 SMP Mon Nov 16 14:12:48 UTC 2009

Can you try whether it works for you as well?

Best regards,
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