I'm just about to compile up 2.6 for the first time on my SS20, which
has a dual 125MHz ross hypersparc card in it. I've done heaps of 2.6
upgrades on x86 and powerpc, but I thought I had better check for
gotyas that other people might have run into - like the fact that
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y makes a powerpc machine randomly segfault processes
:)
2.6.x SMP won't yet run on sparc32. Keith Wesolowski is working on it
(as time permits), so wait, do tests or just try to help woing work.
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Hi folks.
WRT Linux 2.6.x on SS20-MP, I get compile errors when attempting to
build an SMP HyperSPARC kernel, just FYI. It "just won't work"(tm) at
this stage.
I'm going to try and delve into the code, but I don't like my changes
at this stage.
Other things that I have come across:
kernel-image-2.4.24-sparc32-smp package cannot be used because SILO
complains that the uncompressed image is too large (Bug #234404).
sarge libc6 upgrade doesn't depend on 2.4 kernel, but requires it,
leaving libc6* unconfigured until one is installed. (can't find a bug
for this, but looks like the libc6 maintainers have more than enough to
do without me hassling them)
I keep getting "Cannot file /etc/silo.conf (Unknown ext2 error)" when
booting. It seems odd because it can read 1/vmlinuz without any
problems.
Also, I got loads of kernel oopses on 2.4.25 when appending
video=sbus:font=SUN12x22 on the kernel command line.
Cheers all.
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James Whatever
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