2.6 broken on sparc64

IronWolve · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 41

Looking at a few forums, debian/ubuntu and playing with with 2.6.14.2 latest kernel on gentoo, it looks like sparc64 is broken.

Anyone else notice this? I thought it was me, until I downloaded a few daily sparc 64 builds, and all show the same boot problems on a 2.6 kernel. And I updated my latest 2.4 kernel (and blew away my working and fully stable one) DOH!

Exact problem I am having, truncated 1st character, and character flicker.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/11/msg00042.html

gust4voz · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject:

2.6 kernels for sparc aren't quite ready for different reasons on different machine models.
For instance the blade 100/150 framebuffer issue is known, other problems include flaky onboard sound (sun-cs4231) driver and not-so-stable on UltraSPARC-II based machines (IIi & IIe not included).
That's the reason we still recommend 2.4 over 2.6.
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Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey

IronWolve · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 41

Someone just posted a patch for the framebuffer issue.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/11/msg00065.html

gonna try that on a 2.6.14.2 kernel here later.

tiketti · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Finland

IronWolve · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 41

Wonder if the 2.6.14.3 kernel will include the ati fb patch...
I grabbed a 2.6.14.3 sparc deb that got my sunblade working for now.
http://www.wooyd.org/debian/kernels/2.6/

I threw debian testing on it as I was reinstalling like crazy.