Funtoo Linux Installation on SPARC - Revision history

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 == Wanboot ==
-Some OpenBoot revision (notably 4.25) have problems with RARP/TFP. Fortunately tey support a more modern mecasnim known as Wanboot. Wanboot enables a SPARC machine to retreive a netbootimage either via TFTP or via HTTP. To use wanboot, you must set feed the '''network-boot-arguments variable''' with the IP address/netmask/gateway of your SPARC machine (replace 'tftp' with 'http' if you use a web server):
+Some OpenBoot revisions (notably 4.25) have problems with RARP/TFTP. Fortunately they support a more modern mechanism known as Wanboot. Wanboot enables a SPARC machine to retrieve a netboot image either via TFTP or via HTTP. To use wanboot, you must set feed the '''network-boot-arguments variable''' with the IP address/netmask/gateway of your SPARC machine (replace 'tftp' with 'http' if you use a web server):
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 = Initial boot =
-Funtoo does not provide an official media kit or metboot images for the moment. We plan to in the future but not for the moment, so the best would be to use one a CD/DVD-ROM or a SPARC netboot image provided by another project (Debian, Gentoo...). In the case of the second option, you can build your own if you have a bit of patience, see our article "[[Netboot image creation for SPARC machines]]".
+Funtoo does not provide an official media kit or netboot images for the moment. We plan to in the future but not for the moment, so the best would be to use one a CD/DVD-ROM or a SPARC netboot image provided by another project (Debian, Gentoo...). In the case of the second option, you can build your own if you have a bit of patience, see our article "[[Netboot image creation for SPARC machines]]".
 == RARP/DHCP TFTP ==

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 == Packages ==
 '''Q:''' Do you use the same package tree than x86/amd64 ?<br>

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 == General ==
 '''Q:''' Is Funtoo SPARC official ?<br>
-'''R:''' Yes, Funtoo SPARC has an official existence in the Funtoo project :-)
+'''A:''' Yes, Funtoo SPARC has an official existence in the Funtoo project :-)
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 '''Q:''' How often a year do you update SPARC stages ?<br>
-'''R:''' It depends, Funtoo SPARC has limited available time and resources but we try to publish stage archive at least twice a month.
+'''A:''' It depends, Funtoo SPARC has limited available time and resources but we try to publish stage archive at least twice a month.
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 == Packages ==
 '''Q:''' Do you use the same package tree than x86/amd64 ?<br>
-'''R:''' Yes absolutely, Funtoo SPARC stages are build on the exact same portage tree as the other architectures with absolutely no modifications.
+'''A:''' Yes absolutely, Funtoo SPARC stages are build on the exact same portage tree as the other architectures with absolutely no modifications.
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 == Quality Assurance (QA) ==
 '''Q:''' What is your consideration for a QA process ?<br>
-'''R:''' Quality Assurance is very important for Funtoo SPARC and Funtoo in general because it engages what is at the core of many open source projects, either done by a commercial entity or by the community itself : credibility. We do our best to serve this goal but we rely for the moment on Gentoo, so quality reflect (partly) what they do on their side. In the case of a major issue would happen on the Gentoo side, we do our best to catch the issue and "shut it down" before catastrophic situations appear. Funtoo is like many thing in so imperfect world : imperfect. Don't expect Funtoo to be 100% troubles free, troubles exists but are rare. The same is true for other Linux projects as well.
+'''A:''' Quality Assurance is very important for Funtoo SPARC and Funtoo in general because it engages what is at the core of many open source projects, either done by a commercial entity or by the community itself : credibility. We do our best to serve this goal but we rely for the moment on Gentoo, so quality reflect (partly) what they do on their side. In the case of a major issue would happen on the Gentoo side, we do our best to catch the issue and "shut it down" before catastrophic situations appear. Funtoo is like many thing in so imperfect world : imperfect. Don't expect Funtoo to be 100% troubles free, troubles exists but are rare. The same is true for other Linux projects as well.
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 '''Q:''' Is some QA (Quality Assurance) being done on the stages ?<br>
-'''R:''' We do QA but keep in mind that Funtoo relies on thousands of packages (more than 13,000 ebuilds as of January 2011). It is not possible to test everything in every configuration but we do QA on regular basis. Of course you are are a key point in the QA process. If something goes wrong, please report it in the forums.
+'''A:''' We do QA but keep in mind that Funtoo relies on thousands of packages (more than 13,000 ebuilds as of January 2011). It is not possible to test everything in every configuration but we do QA on regular basis. Of course you are are a key point in the QA process. If something goes wrong, please report it in the forums.
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 '''Q:''' What kind of control do you perform ?<br>
-'''R:''' The very first control is to check if all stages build successfully and we do Funtoo installations from the scratch on regular basis to see if major issues appears. We emerge major packages on a regular basis to see if they build and run correctly.
+'''A:''' The very first control is to check if all stages build successfully and we do Funtoo installations from the scratch on regular basis to see if major issues appears. We emerge major packages on a regular basis to see if they build and run correctly.
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 '''Q:''' Why after having created an ext2 filesystem with BusyBox mkfs.ext2  applet on /dev/sd?1 my partitions are not seen anymore by fdisk?<br>
-'''R:''' This tool overwrites the first 1024 bytes (2 sectors) of your partition. If your partition is the very first of the disk and if it starts at block 0. the consequence is that your Sun disklabel is overwritten with zeroes. This behavior as been seen with BB up to revision 1.18.3 (later revision can be affected).
+'''A:''' This tool overwrites the first 1024 bytes (2 sectors) of your partition. If your partition is the very first of the disk and if it starts at block 0. the consequence is that your Sun disklabel is overwritten with zeroes. This behavior as been seen with BB up to revision 1.18.3 (later revision can be affected).
 '''Q:''' I have killed my Sun disklabel, is my hard drive dead?<br>
-'''R:''' No, fdisk will create a brand new one for you (use option ''' 's' ''').
+'''A:''' No, fdisk will create a brand new one for you (use option ''' 's' ''').
 == OpenBoot issues ==
 '''Q:''' Is it possible to update OpenBoot from a Linux machine ?<br>
-'''R:''' Yes, absolutely. OBP updates are provided in a statically linked and standalone program and contrary to a urban legend you do not need to have Solaris installed. You have several choices :
+'''A:''' Yes, absolutely. OBP updates are provided in a statically linked and standalone program and contrary to a urban legend you do not need to have Solaris installed. You have several choices :
 # Use the flash device (kernel option to activate) from a live Linux system but unfortunately this procedure is not clearly documented on the Internet.
 # Put the update image on the machine ('''boot disk /the-OBP-update-file''') and boot on it. It is '''required''' that this image resides in the very first harddrive gigabyte and, of course, that the filesystem used is readable by OBP (UFS, EXT2...). How warrant the first condition ? Simply have a partition at the beginning of the hard drive which size is less than 1 GB. Is is also required to put the image directly in the root of the partition and not in a subdirectory.
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 '''Q:''' When netbooting the machine with a remote TFTP/RARP server, the machine grabs its IP address but then... nothing. It just says "TFTP transfert timeout".<br>
-'''R:''' This is a known issue with some OBP versions (most notably OBP 4.17.1). Network traffic sniffing shows that the TFTP session is initiated by the SPARC machine but OBP TFTP client seems to not listen anymore on its client, thus generating "Destination port unreachable" ICMP messages on the network. Solution, if your machine support it, try to [[wanboot]] it or try to netboot with DHCP requests instead of RARP (type : '''boot net:dhcp''' at the OpenBoot prompt).
+'''A:''' This is a known issue with some OBP versions (most notably OBP 4.17.1). Network traffic sniffing shows that the TFTP session is initiated by the SPARC machine but OBP TFTP client seems to not listen anymore on its client, thus generating "Destination port unreachable" ICMP messages on the network. Solution, if your machine support it, try to [[wanboot]] it or try to netboot with DHCP requests instead of RARP (type : '''boot net:dhcp''' at the OpenBoot prompt).
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 '''Q:''' I do not see my on-board ethernet controller with '''lspci''' in Linux and OpenBoot shows that the net device has been disabled. Is there a way to enable it again ? <br>
-'''R:''' It could happen for some reason (like a buggy driver which leaves the Ethernet controller in a bogus state), OpenBoot consider the onboard Ethernet as defective and disable it. This is very easy to see : pay attention to what is displayed when the machine is powered-on.
+'''A:''' It could happen for some reason (like a buggy driver which leaves the Ethernet controller in a bogus state), OpenBoot consider the onboard Ethernet as defective and disable it. This is very easy to see : pay attention to what is displayed when the machine is powered-on.
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 '''Q:''' Why OpenBoot report an invalid magic number?<br>
-'''R:''' The partitioning tool you have used to create the Sun disklabel wrote some invalid data in the disklabel and OpenBoot does not recognize your disk as a valid on to boot on. The trouble has been seen with BusyBox fdisk applet.
+'''A:''' The partitioning tool you have used to create the Sun disklabel wrote some invalid data in the disklabel and OpenBoot does not recognize your disk as a valid on to boot on. The trouble has been seen with BusyBox fdisk applet.
 '''Q:''' If I do an update of the POST/OBP, why OpenBoot reports it can't see the firmware file?<br>
-'''R:''' The information is not very easy to find but OpenBoot seems to be able to access to the first gigabyte of the harddrive (this is the reason why you must size /dev/sda1 below 1G), your file is beyond this limit.
+'''A:''' The information is not very easy to find but OpenBoot seems to be able to access to the first gigabyte of the harddrive (this is the reason why you must size /dev/sda1 below 1G), your file is beyond this limit.
 '''Q:''' Is true that OpenBoot is written in Forth?<br>
-'''R:''' Yes, absolutely! OpenBoot lives on a Forth virtual machine :-) For your information, Sun released OpenBoot under the BSD licence and you can get its source code at [http://kernelsource.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kernelsource/OpenBOOT Source Forge]
+'''A:''' Yes, absolutely! OpenBoot lives on a Forth virtual machine :-) For your information, Sun released OpenBoot under the BSD licence and you can get its source code at [http://kernelsource.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/kernelsource/OpenBOOT Source Forge]
 = Various questions with regards to Funtoo SPARC =

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	This section assumes you are a bit familiar with SPARC machines and the SPARC architecture in general. Before diving a bit deeper, bear in mind that more than 95% of a Funtoo SPARC System behaves in exactly the same way as what you have on x86 system. Once installed, you should see a near-nothing difference between a Funtoo SPARC machine and a classic Funtoo x86/amd64 machine, same tools, same way to manage common tasks, etc.		This section assumes you are a bit familiar with SPARC machines and the SPARC architecture in general. Before diving a bit deeper, bear in mind that more than 95% of a Funtoo SPARC System behaves in exactly the same way as what you have on x86 system. Once installed, you should see a near-nothing difference between a Funtoo SPARC machine and a classic Funtoo x86/amd64 machine, same tools, same way to manage common tasks, etc.
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		+	= Initial boot =
		+
		+	Funtoo does not provide an official media kit or metboot images for the moment. We plan to in the future but not for the moment, so the best would be to use one a CD/DVD-ROM or a SPARC netboot image provided by another project (Debian, Gentoo...). In the case of the second option, you can build your own if you have a bit of patience, see our article "[[Netboot image creation for SPARC machines]]".
		+
		+	== RARP/DHCP TFTP ==
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		+	Aka The traditional way :-) TBC
		+
		+	== Wanboot ==
		+
		+	Some OpenBoot revision (notably 4.25) have problems with RARP/TFP. Fortunately tey support a more modern mecasnim known as Wanboot. Wanboot enables a SPARC machine to retreive a netbootimage either via TFTP or via HTTP. To use wanboot, you must set feed the '''network-boot-arguments variable''' with the IP address/netmask/gateway of your SPARC machine (replace 'tftp' with 'http' if you use a web server):
		+
		+	<pre>
		+	network-boot-arguments host-ip=<<MY_IP>>,router-ip=<<MY_ROUTER>>,subnet=mask=<<MY_SUBNET>>,hostname=<<MY_HOSTNAME>>,file=tftp://<<REMOTE_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS>>/yournetbootimage
		+	</pre>
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		+	Typically it will be something like:
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		+	<pre>
		+	network-boot-arguments = host-ip=192.168.1.235,subnet-mask=255.255.255.0,file=tftp://192.168.1.1/mynetbootsparcimage.img
		+	</pre>

	= Differences in the SPARC world vs the PC world =		= Differences in the SPARC world vs the PC world =

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 === Hard Drive Controller ===
-* Sun Blade 150 are fully IDE machines. Their IDE controller is an Ali 5229 which support is enabled by ''ALi PATA Support'' in ''ATA BMDMA support'' (see ''Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers'' in ''Device Drivers''). Note that this controller does not seems to support LBA48 addressing.
+* Sun Blade 150 are fully IDE machines. Their IDE controller is an '''Ali 5229''' which support is enabled by ''ALi PATA Support'' in ''ATA BMDMA support'' (see ''Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers'' in ''Device Drivers''). Note that this controller does not seems to support LBA48 addressing.
 * Sun Blade 2000 and similar models like the Sun Fire V280R uses a QLogic 2200 Fibre Channel Arbitrary Loop (FC-AL). This not only requires to enable ''QLogic QLA2XXX Fibre Channel'' Support in ''SCSI low-level drivers'' but also to deploy a firmware (ql2200_fw.bin) in /usr/lib. Such a firmware is installed with the package '''sys-block/qla-fc-firmware''' and must be included in the kernel image or put in the initramfs image if you use one.
 * Sun Blade 2500 (Red) uses a Symbios Logic 53c1010 SCSI controller, this one is supported with two drivers: