On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:10 PM, brian m. carlson < [email protected]> wrote:
> The "sparc" in this case is the Debian architecture name. Currently, > Debian machines running UltraSPARC processors (sparc64) use the sparc > Debian architecture.[0] So basically, if you're sure you compiled the > kernel as 64-bit, you probably did, and it should work. Such a kernel > will reply give the uname -m reply you expect. Packages you download > using apt will have this part of the filename be "sparc" as well. > > If you're not sure, just install the package and run file on one of the > modules (assuming you compiled it with such). On my Ultra 5, it looks > like > > blackhole ok % file kernel/drivers/block/nbd.ko > kernel/drivers/block/nbd.ko: ELF 64-bit MSB relocatable, SPARC V9, relaxed > memory ordering, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped > > This will tell you if the module is 64-bit or 32-bit, and therefore > whether it's been compiled correctly. > > [0] There's movement towards creating a full 64-bit architecture called > "sparc64", but it is currently unofficial. Awesome! Thanks for the insight. What you say is exactly what I'd thought but I just wanted to check. Also, I took a shortcut and instead of installing it, I just went into the source directory for the kernel and did a 'file' on a few libraries and modules and they all reported back ELF 64-bit MSB relocatable, SPARC V9, relaxed memory ordering, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped Thanks again :)
