On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 12:00:11AM -0400, Dan Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:32:02AM +0200, Christian Meder wrote: > > > > I will try to build on my sun4m here. Will you build the 2.0.95 version, > > Johnie or should I try to do it ? I will go from the 2.0.95 packaging from > > http://master.debian.org/~espy > > Instead, use the one from slink. The one on Joel Klecker's page did > not quite build without some tweaking; I got a working 2.0.95 orig, > diff, and binary-powerpc upload made.
Ok, I finally got a working sparc glibc-2.0.95 snapshot, complete with recent sources. It's available at: ftp://pc5.isr.uni-stuttgart.de/debian It works really well on my sun4m aka Sparc 10. Unfortunately if you run a 2.0.x kernel and you don't want to fill up your logs with Unimplemented Sparc system call 103 or 119 you'll need a kernel patch which I'll attach. 2.1.x should be ok. DON'T PANIC. The syscalls are ok, the warnings are just annoying. I would appreciate if you would try the binaries. I'll upload them in 3 or 4 days if nothing pops up. Could somebody from the powerpc people test if the release works for them too ? Here's again the recipe how to rescue your system just in case ;-) Could you perhaps add it to the webpage, Jules ? - Make sure you have a working rescue floppy or tftpimage. Be sure that the second console (<Ctrl>-<Alt>-F2) when booting from the rescue image is working. - grab the libc6 2.0.93 package - ar xv libc6....deb - you'll get a file debian-binary, data.tar.gz and control.tar.gz - search for an empty floppy - mke2fs /dev/fd0 (be sure you type fd0 and nothing else, don't reformat your harddisk) - mount /dev/fd0 /mnt - cp data.tar.gz /mnt - umount /mnt - now install my new libc6 package - if nothing fails you are done - if everything fails, note the details and reboot from the rescue system - change to the second console - mount /dev/<your root partition> /target - mount /dev/fd0 /mnt - cd /target - zcat < /mnt/data.tar.gz | star - umount /dev/fd0 - eject /dev/fd0 - reboot - after your system is up, install the 2.0.93 package correctly again - dpkg -i libc6....deb - write a slightly annoyed report that 2.0.95 is foobar Greetings, Christian PS.: I would appreciate _any_ feedback. --- linux/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc.c-orig Fri Aug 28 13:05:49 1998 +++ linux/arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc.c Fri Aug 28 13:06:03 1998 @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ /* Be silent for this one as it is attempted by newer * 2.1.x module utilities. */ - if(regs->u_regs[1] != 184) { + if((regs->u_regs[1] != 103) && (regs->u_regs[1] != 119) && (regs->u_regs[1] != 184)) { printk ("Unimplemented SPARC system call %d\n",(int)regs->u_regs[1]); show_regs (regs); } -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau)
