Hello all good people! Just in short - cannot make Linux work on Sun StarFire. There are few different reports which claim they made it work and even some dedicated code for Starfire in kernel but I can't. Current situation: we can boot till /bin/init. Then we loose console. ---------- Jan 19 17:44:29 unknown netcon_server: [ID 366040 local1.info] (linux) : Warning: unable to open an initial console. Jan 19 17:44:29 unknown netcon_server: [ID 366040 local1.info] (linux) : foobar1: '/sbin/init' ---------- No more output. But also does not come to network (there is a preinstalled HDD under it with Aurora 2 and ssh enabled) Adding init=/bin/bash will cause bash to fail and crash. Probably because stdout is missing or such fatal stuff. ---------- Jan 19 21:51:19 unknown netcon_server: [ID 366040 local1.info] (linux) : Warning: unable to open an initial console. Jan 19 21:51:19 unknown netcon_server: [ID 366040 local1.info] (linux) : foobar: '/bin/bash' Jan 19 21:51:19 unknown netcon_server: [ID 366040 local1.info] (linux) : foobar1: '/bin/bash' Jan 19 21:51:20 unknown netcon_server: [ID 366040 local1.info] (linux) : Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! ---------- Those "foobars" are my own debugging. Our current output is posted in web http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/sparc/netcon (beware, 3,5M big file) and config http://no.spam.ee/~tonu/sparc/config We tried very different configs, many of them panic. This one makes it mostly work. Kernel is vanilla 2.6.19.1. There is a "known working" configuration for 2.6.4 but this kernel does not compile for me. Some sources where people report e10k works: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/02/threads.html#00177 http://people.debian.org/~fabbione/e10k/debian_on_e10k.txt http://samba.org/~anton/e10000/ Noone provided copy of their working kernel. I think we need some help in moving forward. Can provide shell access and such. After we get it working I can set up automatic validating of linux kernels there to make sure it works in future. Tõnu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
