Re: Anita now supports sparc

["Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:19:52 +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> sparc boot calls loadfile() twice, first with COUNT_KERNEL, then with
> LOAD_KERNEL.  When it calls it the first time, the kernel memory where
> READ reads to is not yet allocated.  I guess on real proms that works
> for some magic reason or other, but qemu's OBP is different.

Christos just fixed this (kern/43830), so you can boot the CD.  anita
fails later on during installation, apparently not getting the output
it expects, but I didn't investigate, and the screen is somewhat
messed up:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/pkg/bin/anita", line 69, in <module>
    status = main()
  File "/usr/pkg/bin/anita", line 55, in main
    a.install()
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/anita.py", line 717, in install
    self._install()
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/anita.py", line 653, in _install
    "(Please choose the timezone)", 1200)
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pexpect.py", line 1311, in expect
    return self.expect_list(compiled_pattern_list, time19.50searchwindowsi1 ETA
after: <class 'pexpect.TIMEOUT'>7te-packages/pexpect.py", line 1325, in 
expect_lmatch: None
match_index: Nonexpect_loop(searcher_re(pattern_list), timeout, 
searchwindowsizeexitstatus: None
flag_eof: Falseg/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pexpect.py", line 1409, in 
expect_lpid: 10491
child_fd: 4IMEOUT (str(e) + '\n' + str(self))
closed: FalseUT: Timeout exceeded in read_nonblocking().
timeout: 300wn object at 0x82ab4ac>
delimiter: <class 'pexpect.EOF'>
logfile: <open file '<stdout>', mode 'w' at 0x8071078>
logfile_read: Nonein/qemu-system-sparc', '-m', '32', '-hda', 
'work-file----usr-nlogfile_send: Noneccd.iso+a4/wd0.img', '-nographic', 
'-cdrom', 'work-file----usrmaxread: 
2000so-sparccd.iso+a4/download/sparc/sparccd.iso', '-boot', 'd']
ignorecase: Falser_re:
searchwindowsize: None Progress bar)|(a: CD-ROM)|(([cx]): Continue)|(Hit enter 
tdelaybeforesend: 0.05erial port com0)|(Please choose the timezone)")
delayafterclose: 0.1rs): [6;59H17
delayafterterminate: 0.1

-uwe