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  • Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-21

    From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 22 00:40:01 2021
    Hello!

    I just built a fresh set of Debian Ports installation images which are
    using the latest Debian unstable kernel 5.14.6.

    The images have not been tested as I currently cannot start my testvm
    on the SPARC server I usually use for testing, so testing is currently
    up to the users.

    Since kernel version 5.12, Linux is finally working on larger ia64 systems
    such as the RX2800 again where the kernel previously failed to boot. So,
    if anyone has such a machine and wants to install it, it should now work.

    On some ia64 machines, it may be necessary to pass the option

    "hardened_usercopy=off"

    on the kernel command line. For that, press "e" on the GRUB menu and
    append the line above without quotes to the boot command.

    PowerMac installation should also work with these images again, although
    I haven't tested that yet.

    Adrian

    [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-09-21/

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  • From kristofferfin@tuta.io@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 23 11:20:03 2021
    Hi,
    This my first post here, so hello to everyone :)

    After upgrading to 5.14.6, both my G5 and G4 machines won't boot with this kernel.  They stop at this: .... ata1.00 failed to set xfermode (err_mask = 0x40)
    There was not a problem with 5.10.3 and 5.10.8 or at least went thru with that part.
    Both machines are equipped with the SSDs.


    Regards,
    Kristoffer
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    <div>Hi,<br></div><div dir="auto">This my first post here, so hello to everyone :)<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">After upgrading to 5.14.6, both my G5 and G4 machines won't boot with this kernel.&nbsp; They stop at this: .... ata1.00
    failed to set xfermode (err_mask = 0x40)<br></div><div dir="auto">There was not a problem with 5.10.3 and 5.10.8 or at least went thru with that part.<br></div><div dir="auto">Both machines are equipped with the SSDs.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><
    div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,<br></div><div dir="auto">Kristoffer</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div> Wiadomość wysłana za pomocą serwisu Tutanota, oferującego&nbsp;bezpieczną i wolną od reklam usługę e-mail: <br></
  • From Anatoly Pugachev@21:1/5 to kristofferfin@tuta.io on Thu Sep 23 11:30:01 2021
    On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 12:10 PM <kristofferfin@tuta.io> wrote:

    Hi,
    This my first post here, so hello to everyone :)

    After upgrading to 5.14.6, both my G5 and G4 machines won't boot with this kernel. They stop at this: .... ata1.00 failed to set xfermode (err_mask = 0x40)
    There was not a problem with 5.10.3 and 5.10.8 or at least went thru with that part.
    Both machines are equipped with the SSDs.

    have you seen this discussion https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195895

    they have some patches to begin with...

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  • From kristofferfin@tuta.io@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 23 23:10:03 2021
    Small update:
    G5 works fine now after reinstallation of the "bad" kernel.
    I also made a fresh installation on another G4 (this time on Mini) with mechanical HDD and  stuck here:
    i2c:powermac modalias failure /uni-n@8000000/i2c@f8001000/cereal
    Of course older kernel has no issues.
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    <div>Small update:<br></div><div dir="auto">G5 works fine now after reinstallation of the "bad" kernel.<br></div><div dir="auto">I also made a fresh installation on another G4 (this time on Mini) with mechanical HDD and&nbsp; stuck here:<br></div><div
    dir="auto">i2c:powermac modalias failure /uni-n@8000000/i2c@f8001000/cereal<br></div><div dir="auto">Of course older kernel has no issues.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div> Wiadomość wysłana za pomocą serwisu Tutanota, oferują
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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to kristofferfin@tuta.io on Thu Sep 23 23:40:01 2021
    Hello!

    On 9/23/21 23:08, kristofferfin@tuta.io wrote:
    I also made a fresh installation on another G4 (this time on Mini) with mechanical HDD and stuck here:
    i2c:powermac modalias failure /uni-n@8000000/i2c@f8001000/cereal

    What do you mean by "stuck here"? Does it boot up to his point and
    then nothing further happens?

    Please provide a little more information and context, i.e. what you
    did to get there and so on.

    Adrian

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  • From Rick Thomas@21:1/5 to Efraim Flashner on Fri Sep 24 12:20:02 2021
    On Fri, Sep 24, 2021, at 12:47 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote:
    On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:30:26PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    Hello!

    On 9/23/21 23:08, kristofferfin@tuta.io wrote:
    I also made a fresh installation on another G4 (this time on Mini) with mechanical HDD and stuck here:
    i2c:powermac modalias failure /uni-n@8000000/i2c@f8001000/cereal

    What do you mean by "stuck here"? Does it boot up to his point and
    then nothing further happens?

    Please provide a little more information and context, i.e. what you
    did to get there and so on.

    Adrian


    I'm seeing something similar. using the attached screen of my iBook G4
    the last lines I see are

    [ 30.582886] fb0: switching to radeondrmfb from OFfb ATY,Snowy_
    [ 30.660875] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: direct-loading firmware b43/ucode5.fw

    and then the screen has been frozen for hours. I am able to ssh into the machine anduse it from there but I have a minimum machine load of about 2.
    I figured it was related to the firmware-amd-graphics package I installed.

    I'm seeing the same behavior on a Mac mini G4 (standard spinning rust hard drive, if it makes a difference). Screen freezes just at the time it switches from the open-firmware frame-buffer driver to something more native. I don't know what graphics
    chip it's using. I can ssh into the machine and run something to find out, if you can tell me what to run.

    Is there some way to tell it to not try to switch graphics drivers away from OF-FB?

    Thanks!
    Rick

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