On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 15:13, Antonello wrote: > My Ultra10 is currently running a 2.6.0 (test11) release and it works like a > breeze. > (compiled with the standard Debian procedure via make-kpkg) > Some things (such as IDE support) are greatly improved in 2.6. > I compiled ide support, sun creator framebuffer, iptables with many > features enabled (as modules), scsi support, serial console, Sun serial > keyboard and mouse via Siemens SAB driver. No audio (I don't need it), no > DRM (no X installed), nothing else than the necessary items. Ah, kernel > packet shaper is compiled and reported to work (even if I don't use it > actively at the moment).
I have had some problems getting 2.6.0 test11 to work on my Ultra5. Biggest problem was trying to get the (stripped) kernel under 3.5Mb. Problem may be because I want LVM and RAID compiled in - not in the mood for mucking about with initrd's at the moment. Or maybe I left something in that I don't need? Unfortunately the 3 hour compile cycle meant that I could not test fully. So if someone else has done it there may be hope for me. :) > Preemption is enabled. I saw some reports that turning preemption on actually slows down Sparc performance? Was on an older release (test5, I think). Has this been resolved? Was it ever a problem? - Matthew
