Hi, I am Debian [https://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=jurij%40wooyd.org contributor], involved in the following areas:
[http://alioth.debian.org/projects/kernel Debian kernel team]
[http://debian.org/ports/sparc Debian sparc port]. Related wiki pages: PortsSparc SparcPorting XorgOnSparc SparcInstallationNotes
[http://pkg-torrus.alioth.debian.org Torrus package maintenance]
[http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org Debian Linux Kernel Handbook project]
Current "To Do" list:
- Finish the draft of the out-of-tree kernel module policy, produce a sample future-policy-compliant package.
Try to build a custom kernel which would produce more debugging info for the infamous sparc64 SMP crash ([http://bugs.debian.org/361214 bug 361214]). Should try building 2.6.17 from git, rumour is that a lot of sparc SMP changes went into it, so there is hope. Built one, asked Blars to test.
Investigate recent firefox problems on sparc ([http://bugs.debian.org/362170 bug 362170]). So far gdb dies with internal error when trying to trace the problem. Fabio was able to get a trace on Ubuntu, dies in NSGetModule(), called from libgtklayout.
DMA errors on sparc32, upstream bug [http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6344 6344]. Sent a message to d-s asking to test a presumably fixed kernel. [http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/04/msg00045.html Thread].
- Check why SILO built with newer compiler hangs on sparc32. Would be really great if we could make it work, because SILO is currently the only package in the archive which build-depends on gcc-2.95 :-P
- Investigate the serial console corruption on Ultra5 with 2.6, reported by Joey Hess. All symbols come out as a bunch of X'es. Hm, not broken for me. Latest 2.6.16 works fine modulo the usual occasional garbage on the console (I thought it was fixed long ago :-/).
Done
Fix the base-installer patch in [http://bugs.debian.org/358532 bug 358532]. Submitted a [http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/04/msg00520.html part of the solution] to d-b for review. Fixed by ?FransPop (thanks!)
Gnustep problems on sparc, bug [http://bugs.debian.org/362192 bug 362192]. Identified the source of the problem, sent followup to the bug.
Patches from Fabio for [http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/sparc-fix-raid.dpatch RAID support] and [http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/sparc-no-chs-in-udeb.dpatch libparted]. Former is submitted as a wishlist bug against parted, the latter is more problematic. It's more a quick and dirty solution than a real fix. The d-i's parted server should really be taught how to handle libparted's exceptions. ?FransPop is aware of patches, he should be able to take better care of them :-).