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On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 15:01 -0800, BRM wrote: |
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> I had two issues with it: |
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> 1. The QLogic QLA2000 controller. |
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> Namely because you have to build the initrd disk image to load before |
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> you can get to the hard drive, at least post 2.6.16 or 2.6.18. May be |
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> they corrected that again; not sure. (Issue was a firmware blob was |
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> needed; I somewhere 2.6.16-18 they stopped letting you build the blob |
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> into the kernel, thus the initrd was then required and not easy to get |
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> setup either.) |
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> 2. The NIC, at least when I ran it several years back, didn't auto-sense |
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> properly. |
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> However, I can't say if either of those are still issues or not since |
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> I am no longer at the company where I had that box, so I don't run the |
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> Sparc64 one any more. It'd be great to know if those issues were |
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> resolved as I do know of another equivalent box that was running into |
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> those same issues, and the maintainers aren't as savvy - they may not |
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> be using it now as a result. So it'd be nice to get them going on it |
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> again. |
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I did not encounter issues with the FC-AL disks nor with the gigabit |
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ethernet cards, so yes, these probably have been resolved. |
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I use an initrd (ramfs) with the kernel to boot the disks, was a |
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complete PITA to get set up but once booting it all works beautifully. I |
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put the firmware into the initrd, but compiling the firmware into the |
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kernel also works just as well but the initrd method is probably better |
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contrary to the wisdom put forth in the sparc forums on Gentoo. |
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