Re: New test kernel available - please verify

Tony Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Did you also add your patch to detect the s7? During testing/debugging on the s7, I remember you created a patch for that. Think you mentioned it is s7 optimization related.

> On Sep 8, 2025, at 10:07 AM, Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 9/8/25 11:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 17:37 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 17:31 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>>> I just uploaded a 6.16.3 Debian kernel package with:
>>>> 
>>>> - all patches by Michael Karcher to fix copy_{to,from}_user
>>>> - the patch by Anthony Yznaga to fix HugeTLB support on sun4u
>>>> - support for transparent huge pages disabled
>>>> 
>>>> Packages are available here: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/
>>>> 
>>>> Please test and report back!
>>> 
>>> Never mind, it's broken. Most likely due to the binutils version used.
>>> 
>>> Will have to rebuild with binutils 2.43.
>> New kernel is building, old packages have been deleted to keep users from
>> testing kernel packages known to be broken.
> 
> 
> Well, at least I have the ability to netboot wheezy. That works.
> I will wait for the new deb packages to land before trying another
> debootstrap and all the magic dance that follows.
> 
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> Dennis Clarke
> RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
> UNIX and Linux spoken
>
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