From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:30:54 +0200 > Hi Dave! > > We have had issues when installing Debian's sparc64 port on SPARC > machines with virtualization support. In order to be able to install > Linux into an LDOM container, both the modules sunvdc and sunvnet > need to be loaded to enable block device and networking support > within the virtual machine. > > Unfortunately, these modules are never loaded automatically despite > being present and the hardware supporting it. After some discussion > in Debian's bug tracker [1], Ben Hutchings, Debian's kernel maintainer, > mentioned that this is a result of the VIO bus implementation on > sparc/sparc64 not supporting module aliases and consequently automatic > loading. > > Ben has provided a minimal and dirty patch which enables aliases > for vio on sparc/sparc64, but he says the better solution would > be to merge VIO implementations on both sparc/sparc64 and PowerPC, > the latter already supporting module aliases and auto loading. > > A quick hotfix as Ben suggested would be great for the time being > as it would unbreak the Debian installation within LDOMs, so > I was wondering whether you could merge the patch? > > Any other suggestion? Thanks for bringing this up. Although I wonder, I was able to successfully install debian just fine a couple years ago in LDOM guest nodes without any special changes whatsoever. Were there autoload hacks placed in /etc or similar before? Either way, I'll look at this patch, thanks. -- 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
