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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Heitzso wrote:

> Will Gentoo be picking up sparc32 ever again?

Basically by "not supporting" sparc32, we're just not providing release
media/stages/etc with every release, and the sparc32 specific bugs
may not get as much priority as sparc64.

It's not to say we've totally written sparc32 off, but that we only work
on it when time, resources and planets align.

Cheers,
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Jason Wever
Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead
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heh, you and I are actually in the same boat. I'm messing with a dual
hypersparc ss20 right now, too.

Try the non-smp gentoo kernel on gustov's livecd. That should get you
working... then emerge gcc-2.95.3 and use it to build a 2.4.21 kernel
with smp. I read somewhere that it was a fairly decent SMP kernel for
hypersparc, so it's what I've been using. 2.4.25 (which is the other
kernel on the livecd) didn't work for me even when I compiled it myself.
2.2 was better for this hardware, so I'm trying to get 2.2. up and
running on my box instead. If you want to go this route, you'll need to
recompile glibc to support 2.2 kernels first. You can do this by
setting LT_KERNEL_VERSION in your /etc/make.conf. I set it to '2.0.36'
just in case I wanted to drop down to a 2.0 kernel. I haven't tried the
2.2 kernel yet becasue I havne't gotten around to making the initrd for
it yet (my root device is software raid, and 2.2 didn't have autostart
for md devices).

--Jeremy

Heitzso wrote:
> I finally dusted off my old ss20 dual Hypersparc 150 box and
> reinstalled Linux on it. I had bought a pair of supersparcs
> on ebay for it to avoid Ross dual Hypersparc insanity,
> but one of those was bad so I fell back to the dual
> Hypersparc configuration. I tried to boot the livecd that
> was posted to this list a few weeks ago and that failed.
> I went digging for an official gentoo sparc32 stage X cd
> and noticed that gentoo is not, at the moment, officially
> supporting sparc 32. So I fell back to stable Debian for
> the install. I noticed on a news site that Debian is considering
> dropping sparc as one of their supported platforms.
>
> I don't blame anyone for dropping sparc32. It is hard to
> justify the effort of supporting it. But I'm quirky and the
> idea of having a working ss20 laying around appeals to
> me, probably like someone who drives an old 1930s era
> automobile from time to time.
>
> Will Gentoo be picking up sparc32 ever again?
>
> Thanks,
> Heitzso
>
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