On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Helge Deller wrote: > On 05.04.2016 20:54, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, Simone Mannori wrote: > >>> I think Debian 5 will not even install on the C8000.. > >> > >> Correct: the boot DVD hang after a while. > > > > I installed Debian 5 on the C8000 (using tftp netboot, not DVD) some times > > ago. > > > > It required PCI serial card (because the Debian 5 kernel doesn't recognize > > the built-in serial ports) and PCI network card (the Debian 5 kernel can't > > handle the built-in E1000 network card due to non-standard checksum in the > > EEPROM). > > ... and the debian 5 kernel was most likely *very* unstable on that machine ? :-) > > Helge Yes, it was very unstable. It took long time for the parisc port to stabilize. Recently, I've got some gcc crashes when running kernel compilation in parallel with the LVM2 testsuite, so there may still be some stability bugs. Mikulas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
