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On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 maarten@×××××××××××××××.be wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I've made a sparc32 port of Gentoo but I couldn't find any mention of |
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> porting in the documentation. I'd like to know: |
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> 1) Are you 'friendly' towards ports? |
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Yes. |
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> 2) Can I put the stage 1 tarball on your site? |
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That should be doable. Contact drobbins@g.o for details. |
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> 3) Can you setup a new CVS tree so it can be accessed like: |
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> SYNC="rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-sparc-portage" |
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Again, contact drobbins. |
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> 3) The linux-headers packages contain 2 platform specific lines, can these |
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> be wrapped using uname -m statements? |
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> cp -ax ${S}/include/asm-i386/* ${D}/usr/include/asm |
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> [...] |
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> cp "${ROOT}usr/src/linux-${KV}/arch/i386/defconfig" .config |
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> Shall I write a patch? |
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Yes. |
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> 4) I'm working on a 64-bit capable version using redhat's gcc |
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> 2.96-20000731 for compiling sparc64 (the kernel prefers this). Would it be |
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> possible to have this package stored on your site? There are >300 patches |
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> that are applied to this tree so I'd rather not duplicate that work and |
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> publish a patched tree immediately. This problem is going away anyway as |
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> we'll reportely have decent sparc64 capability in the upcoming gcc 3.1 |
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> tree. |
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Sounds like a reasonable intermediate solution. |
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Will your sparc32 port work on the Sun IPC and IPX machines ? |
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Kind regards, |
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Karl T |
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