On 2016-04-05 4:18 PM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
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.
I would say it took a change in the way the port is maintained. Helge
and I communicate
closely. I look at the buildd logs on a regular basis and try to push
fixes for gcc problems
aggressively. This causes some instability but I don't see any other
choice. We have also
pushed stuff to glibc. More needs to be done there but the Debian patch
set is reduced.
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.
The LVM2 builds on Debian have been generally successful:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=lvm2&arch=hppa
However, it looks as if testsuite isn't being run.
If you find something that is reproducible, please send along.
Dave
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