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On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:36:39 -0500 |
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John Davis <zhen@g.o> wrote: |
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> - -livecd kernel .configs for both 2.6 and 2.4 |
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2.6 may be problematic to get usable on sparc64 in time for release. |
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Currently, the vanilla 2.6.0 has broken keyboard/mouse and serial |
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port support on SBUS based sparc64 machines. Additionally, the loading of |
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ANY console font at boot time will make any sparc64 keyboard unusable. |
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There are some patched out there to address the SBUS keyboard/mouse and |
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serial issues (in sparc-dev-sources maintained by wesolows) but none of |
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these have been blessed by Linus or Andrew Martin yet. They seem to work |
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well for those of us SPARC devs who've been using them, but they haven't |
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been extensively tested either. |
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The above problem also exists for ALL sparc32 machines, but I'm not as |
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concerned with releases for sparc32 ATM. |
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Also, we need to stabilize a new customized gcc ebuild (gcc-sparc64) to |
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build these kernels on sparc64 (but this is probably the easiest part of |
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dealing with all of this and something we are looking into currently). |
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As for 2.4, we want configs for 2.4.23 correct? |
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> - -specific details on how to configure the bootloader for you arch |
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I've put up some docs, as well as the configs for SILO that we've been |
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using at http://dev.gentoo.org/~weeve/silo/ |
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> - -test genkernel (cvs version/ ~x86) for your arch |
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In progress. |
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Additionally, I don't recall if I mentioned this before, but gcloop will |
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not currently build on sparc64 due to our kernel compiler being different |
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from our userland compiler and the fact it doesn't have a working 64 bit |
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ld. Kernel doesn't mind that, but most 3rd party modules don't seem to be |
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able to cope with that. |
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gcloop does build on sparc however, though the prerequisite packages |
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currently either lack sparc and/or ~sparc keywords. I also have not |
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tested it's functionality. |
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-- |
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Jason Wever |
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Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead |