On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Dave Love wrote: >David List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> but I cannot see how to use this patch since the 2.4.18 kernel that >> comes with my 3.0_r1 installation seems to be monolithic, and vanilla >> kernel source does not build on my system. > >In what way? I don't remember having any problem applying the patch >with the Debian source packages for 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 and building the >result.
I have just recently been made aware that you need to use the compiler in the egcs64 package on Debian SPARC to compile working 64-bit kernels. That was probably my problem. Actually my kernel *was* built, but I was unable to boot on it. It will take a few days before I'm able to try again, since I cannot set up the system with monitor and keyboard right now. I see that Ben Collins is putting in great effort to make it possible soon to use gcc 3.2 to compile these kernels. That's wonderful. Best regards, David List
