Platform testing (last call?)

I have a hp 9000/433s that I can fire up and try if need be.

(1.5.1 of NetBSD).

LER

* Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> [011213 10:15]:

Things have firmed up nicely for the 7.2 release. We currently have
several NetBSD platforms which have not reported success for 7.2, maybe
only because they have a relatively small user base (and aging
processors) nowadays. If anyone still has a m68k, VAX or arm running
NetBSD, let us know!

Oh, and a question about Linux/PlayStation2: if it is an x86 processor,
even without test and set support, should we list it separately? Or is
it enough like other PCs that it is too fine a distinction to make?

- Thomas

The problem platforms with comments and questions are:

NetBSD/arm32 Patrick Welche
Any luck finding time to do the test?
NetBSD/m68k Bill Studenmund
Any luck finding another test platform?
NetBSD/VAX Tom I. Helbekkmo
Any VAXen out there nowadays?
SunOS Tatsuo Ishii
Anyone writing a memcpy for it?
Tatsuo will be retiring his machine soon.

And those reported as successful:

AIX Andreas Zeugswetter, Tatsuo, Tom
BeOS Cyril Velter
BSD/OS Bruce
FreeBSD Chris Kings-Lynne
HPUX Tom, Joseph Conway
IRIX Luis Amigo
Linux/Alpha Tom
Linux/arm Mark Knox
Linux/MIPS Hisao Shibuya
Linux/PlayStation2 Permaine Cheung
Linux/PPC Tom
Linux/sparc Doug McNaught
Linux/s390 Permaine Cheung
Linux/x86 Thomas (and many others ;)
MacOS-X Gavin Sherry
NetBSD/Alpha Thomas Thai
NetBSD/PPC Bill Studenmund
NetBSD/sparc Matthew Green
NetBSD/x86 Bill Studenmund
OpenBSD/sparc Brandon Palmer
OpenBSD/x86 Brandon Palmer
OpenUnix Larry Rosenman
QNX 4 Bernd Tegge
QNX 6 Igor Kovalenko
Solaris/sparc Andrew Sullivan
Solaris/x86 Martin Renters
Tru64 Alessio Bragadini, Bernd Tegge
Windows/Cygwin Dave Page, Jason Tishler
Windows/native (clients only) Dave Page

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I have a hp 9000/433s that I can fire up and try if need be.
(1.5.1 of NetBSD).

That is an m68k? If it is on the "problem list" (or not mentioned at
all), then any testing would be great!

- Thomas

* Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> [011213 10:22]:

I have a hp 9000/433s that I can fire up and try if need be.
(1.5.1 of NetBSD).

That is an m68k? If it is on the "problem list" (or not mentioned at
all), then any testing would be great!

Yes, it's a 33 MhZ 68040.

- Thomas

The problem platforms with comments and questions are:

NetBSD/arm32 Patrick Welche
Any luck finding time to do the test?
NetBSD/m68k Bill Studenmund
Any luck finding another test platform?
NetBSD/VAX Tom I. Helbekkmo
Any VAXen out there nowadays?
SunOS Tatsuo Ishii
Anyone writing a memcpy for it?
Tatsuo will be retiring his machine soon.

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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> writes:

Things have firmed up nicely for the 7.2 release. We currently have
several NetBSD platforms which have not reported success for 7.2, maybe
only because they have a relatively small user base (and aging
processors) nowadays. If anyone still has a m68k, VAX or arm running
NetBSD, let us know!

Has anyone tried to run it on OS X 10.1? I know there were problems
with the compiler changes that Apple put in but I don't recall if
there's an easy fix.

If someone can say "it should work" I'll try to get it compiled and
working there--I want to take my PowerBook on holiday and do some
hacking...

Oh, and a question about Linux/PlayStation2: if it is an x86 processor,
even without test and set support, should we list it separately? Or is
it enough like other PCs that it is too fine a distinction to make?

I am quite sure PS2 is not x86. It's some kind of RISC with a lot of
special 3d and sound hardware, but I forget which.

-Doug
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...

Has anyone tried to run it on OS X 10.1? ...
If someone can say "it should work" I'll try to get it compiled and
working there--I want to take my PowerBook on holiday and do some
hacking...

Pretty sure that someone already reported success on 10.1 (10.1.1?). So,
"it should work" ;)

- Thomas

Thomas Lockhart wrote:

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Oh, and a question about Linux/PlayStation2: if it is an x86 processor,
even without test and set support, should we list it separately? Or is
it enough like other PCs that it is too fine a distinction to make?

The Playstation2 does not have an X86 processor. It uses a MIPS R5900.
Sony calls this CPU the "Emotion Engine."

Neil

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Neil Padgett <npadgett@redhat.com> writes:

The Playstation2 does not have an X86 processor. It uses a MIPS R5900.
Sony calls this CPU the "Emotion Engine."

Nitpick: actually from what I've read that term refers to the
super-nifty graphics chipset, not to the CPU itself, which is fairly
vanilla.

Interesting that the PG compile doesn't try to use MIPS spinlocks on
the PS2...

-Doug
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works for me. doug if you'd like an account on a 10.1 machine i can arrange
that. i've got both the client and the server flavors available. there was
some bizarre two-level-namespace problem, but it seems to work okay now.
(update, yeah, just checked again to make sure. 10.1, 10.1.1, and
10.0-10.0.4 are all okay)..

alex

-----Original Message-----

Has anyone tried to run it on OS X 10.1? I know there were problems
with the compiler changes that Apple put in but I don't recall if
there's an easy fix.

Alex Avriette <a_avriette@acs.org> writes:

works for me. doug if you'd like an account on a 10.1 machine i can arrange
that. i've got both the client and the server flavors available. there was
some bizarre two-level-namespace problem, but it seems to work okay now.
(update, yeah, just checked again to make sure. 10.1, 10.1.1, and
10.0-10.0.4 are all okay)..

Thanks for the offer. I have a PB that I just updated to 10.1 so I'm
going to try to get it running there, probably tonight.

-Doug
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Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
--T. J. Jackson, 1863

oh, if youre going to do testing tonight, one thing i didnt do.. apple has
their new 'developer tools' out, which *will* include a different
gcc/make/other stuff. so you might try installing that too.

alex

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug McNaught [mailto:doug@wireboard.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:27 PM
To: Alex Avriette
Cc: lockhart@fourpalms.org; Hackers List; Bill Studenmund;
prlw1@cam.ac.uk; tih@kpnQwest.no; Tatsuo Ishii; Permaine Cheung
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Platform testing (last call?)

Alex Avriette <a_avriette@acs.org> writes:

works for me. doug if you'd like an account on a 10.1 machine i can

arrange

that. i've got both the client and the server flavors available. there was
some bizarre two-level-namespace problem, but it seems to work okay now.
(update, yeah, just checked again to make sure. 10.1, 10.1.1, and
10.0-10.0.4 are all okay)..

Thanks for the offer. I have a PB that I just updated to 10.1 so I'm
going to try to get it running there, probably tonight.

-Doug
--
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
--T. J. Jackson, 1863

Doug McNaught wrote:

Interesting that the PG compile doesn't try to use MIPS spinlocks on
the PS2...

It tries. The instructions aren't compatible.

Neil

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Red Hat Canada Ltd. E-Mail: npadgett@redhat.com
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Toronto, ON M4P 2C9

Doug McNaught wrote:

Neil Padgett <npadgett@redhat.com> writes:

The Playstation2 does not have an X86 processor. It uses a MIPS R5900.
Sony calls this CPU the "Emotion Engine."

Nitpick: actually from what I've read that term refers to the
super-nifty graphics chipset, not to the CPU itself, which is fairly
vanilla.

Actually, Neil is correct. I had the great experience of
working on the tool chain for PlayStation2 a few years back.
And, yes, it was a fun project. The Emotion Engine is the
MIPS core, the vector units and the arbiter.
For more information on the Emotion Engine, check out the
ieee.org website (they have a few good Emotion Engine tech
documents/papers).

Interesting that the PG compile doesn't try to use MIPS spinlocks on
the PS2...

The PlayStation2 MIPS Core does not have such instructions.

Cheers,
Patrick
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Red Hat Database Development

On 13 Dec 2001, Doug McNaught wrote:

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> writes:

Things have firmed up nicely for the 7.2 release. We currently have
several NetBSD platforms which have not reported success for 7.2, maybe
only because they have a relatively small user base (and aging
processors) nowadays. If anyone still has a m68k, VAX or arm running
NetBSD, let us know!

Has anyone tried to run it on OS X 10.1? I know there were problems
with the compiler changes that Apple put in but I don't recall if
there's an easy fix.

10.1.1 compiles/tests fine. See my email on 28th Nov.

Gavin

Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com> writes:

Has anyone tried to run it on OS X 10.1?

Yes, fixed and tested by yours truly ... at least on 10.1.
I have not installed the 10.1.1 update yet. If anyone has,
it'd be worth doing a quick check.

regards, tom lane

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com> writes:

Has anyone tried to run it on OS X 10.1?

Yes, fixed and tested by yours truly ... at least on 10.1.
I have not installed the 10.1.1 update yet. If anyone has,
it'd be worth doing a quick check.

If I have time tonight I'll give it a try.

-Doug
--
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
--T. J. Jackson, 1863

Things have firmed up nicely for the 7.2 release. We currently have
several NetBSD platforms which have not reported success for 7.2, maybe
only because they have a relatively small user base (and aging
processors) nowadays. If anyone still has a m68k, VAX or arm running
NetBSD, let us know!

<snip>

And those reported as successful:

AIX Andreas Zeugswetter, Tatsuo, Tom
BeOS Cyril Velter
BSD/OS Bruce
FreeBSD Chris Kings-Lynne

Should be FreeBSD/x86 ...

I'm still trying to get my friend's Alpha set up (cables, etc - I will
hopefully be able to test it before end of betas/RC's)

Chris

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com> writes:

Has anyone tried to run it on OS X 10.1?

Yes, fixed and tested by yours truly ... at least on 10.1.
I have not installed the 10.1.1 update yet. If anyone has,
it'd be worth doing a quick check.

Installed 10.1.1, PG compiles and tests out just fine.

-Doug
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Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
--T. J. Jackson, 1863