2010/2/20 Rob Landley <r...@landley.net>: > On Saturday 20 February 2010 11:34:44 Blue Swirl wrote: >> On 2/20/10, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: >> > I don't understand what's going wrong here. Did the kernel break on >> > sparc sometime between 2.6.18 and 2.6.32 and nobody noticed? Is sparc >> > using software emulated floating point at the kernel level and that's >> > configured as a module? (Except I don't think busybox ls uses floating >> > point...) >> >> Sparc32 is not maintained anymore so maybe it broke at some point. >> There was some discussion a few years ago. > > Not maintained on the Linux kernel side, or not maintained under qemu? It > seems to be working under debian, but the 2.6.18 kernel is from 2006. > >> > Do any sparc people understand what's going on here? My next step is to >> > grab a 2.6.18 kernel and try to get _that_ to work with the tweaked >> > debian config (and an ext2 root filesystem since squashfs wasn't merged >> > back then and had a format change when it was merged). But I'm mostly >> > flailing around blind here... >> >> I'm also trying different kernels using my .config. But already 2.6.12 >> hangs in ESP probe. > > I've got 2.6.32 booting to a command prompt (albeit with serial console and > intentionall restricted set of hardware). But then it misbehaves. > > I'll try getting 2.6.18 to build with a known .config, and then bisect forward > if that seems to work...
You can also try aurora linux. They had a bit newer kernel. Don't know how stable is it on a real hw though. -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/