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From: maarten@×××××××××××××××.be
To: "Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@××××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Made sparc32 port of gentoo
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:17:46
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0204111711160.17596-100000@murphy.localnet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Made sparc32 port of gentoo by "Jared H. Hudson"
1 Jared,
2
3 Another one with old Sparc hardware :). I'll be sure to lower the stage1
4 CPU requirements to hopefully include support for sun4c and better though
5 I might not be able to test it on anything less than sun4m. I use sun4u
6 for building.
7
8 cheers,
9 maarten
10
11 On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Jared H. Hudson wrote:
12
13 >
14 > That's awesome. Congrats. I've thought about doing the same thing, but all
15 > my Sun's are Sunstation 1's and 2's. So, I've not looked forward to
16 > compiling on them. I would email Daniel directly if I were you, concerning
17 > this. drobbins@g.o
18 >
19 > -Jared H.
20 >
21 > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 maarten@×××××××××××××××.be wrote:
22 >
23 > > Hi,
24 > >
25 > > I've made a sparc32 port of Gentoo but I couldn't find any mention of
26 > > porting in the documentation. I'd like to know:
27 > >
28 > > 1) Are you 'friendly' towards ports?
29 > >
30 > >
31 > > 2) Can I put the stage 1 tarball on your site?
32 > >
33 > >
34 > > 3) Can you setup a new CVS tree so it can be accessed like:
35 > > SYNC="rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-sparc-portage"
36 > >
37 > >
38 > > 3) The linux-headers packages contain 2 platform specific lines, can these
39 > > be wrapped using uname -m statements?
40 > >
41 > > cp -ax ${S}/include/asm-i386/* ${D}/usr/include/asm
42 > > [...]
43 > > cp "${ROOT}usr/src/linux-${KV}/arch/i386/defconfig" .config
44 > >
45 > > Shall I write a patch?
46 > >
47 > >
48 > > 4) I'm working on a 64-bit capable version using redhat's gcc
49 > > 2.96-20000731 for compiling sparc64 (the kernel prefers this). Would it be
50 > > possible to have this package stored on your site? There are >300 patches
51 > > that are applied to this tree so I'd rather not duplicate that work and
52 > > publish a patched tree immediately. This problem is going away anyway as
53 > > we'll reportely have decent sparc64 capability in the upcoming gcc 3.1
54 > > tree.
55 > >
56 > > Thanks!
57 > > maarten
58 > >
59 > >
60 > >
61 > >
62 > > _______________________________________________
63 > > gentoo-dev mailing list
64 > > gentoo-dev@g.o
65 > > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
66 > >
67 >
68 > --
69 > Using the internet as it was originally intended...
70 > for the further research of pornography and pipebombs.
71 >

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Made sparc32 port of gentoo Paul de Vrieze <paul@××××××××.net>