Longman, Bill wrote: > That doesn't mean you can't play with it, though. Just pull it down and > compile it. It's rather frustrating, but it's good practice, no? Who doesn't > like compiling kernels on a 166MHz SPARC? > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc" emerge -f --oneshot gentoo-sources > > should get you the latest 2.6.15-r5. Tweak command line as needed for other > versions.
Please don't use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, it's generally bad, you've got package.keywords (man 5 portage) as a better solution. That said 2.6 kernels don't work fine in the stability department, lately it seems only SBUS-based machines are the ones affected. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/sparc/sunhw.xml is a work in progress hardware compatibility list where you can check how things are going on the 2.6 front. Of course it's still incomplete and feedback is welcome. Don't say "excellent stability on X" unless you really did extensive tests. -- Gustavo Zacarias Gentoo/SPARC monkey -- [email protected] mailing list
