Re: Oracle S7-2 and ConnextX4-LX, ConnectX3 (VPI), and i40e

On Thu, 2025-09-11 at 06:38 -0700, Tony Rodriguez wrote:
> That is a good idea, thanks again for your assistance with sparc kernel panics. 
> The S7 is stable now, kernel wise, compared to before.

Good.

> Yes, I agree more work needs to be done regarding sparc64 Debian. It will be helpful
> to track issues to help resolve them.

Not just Debian, Linux in general. A lot of things would definitely improve if all the
SPARC patches in Oracle's UEK kernel could be upstreamed.

> Other issues:
> 1)  Konsole, Gnome terminal, etc generate dots/lines within terminals with lxde. Using
> clear and resetting the terminal will not remove the dots/lines. However, this is not
> the case with “lx terminal.  lx terminal appears to work without any visible issues. 

I have no idea what you mean, to be honest.

> 2) Kde plasma and Gnome fail to install. Will have to double check the reason,can’t
> remember the particular error, but think it is related to dependencies. 

It's always the same issue:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html

Both KDE and GNOME are heavy on Javascript which is still a problem on sparc64. Unless
Javascript is properly fixed on sparc64, you will keep seeing this problem.

> **Please list all the apt souces.list repos you typically use for sparc64. This way we
> can all add them as well, hopefully that will resolve packages with dependency issues.
> Just in case I am missing any?

You aren't. If you want to use KDE or GNOME on sparc64, someone needs to fix Javascript.

Adrian

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