ok, here are some patches to get kbuild 2.5 working on sparc64. there are a few things to note:
1) you need to patch using the 2 patches I sent yesterday (core and common patches) to get it to work 2) you need to turn off ipv6 (this seems to be a problem in the main code for sparc64) 3) you must apply the "hacks" patch (linux-2.5.11-sparc64hacks.patch) first as this fixes general compilation and booting using 2.5.11 on sparc64 -- note that these are hacks and will probably take different form when dave miller gets patches to Linus. part of this hacks patch is the fbdev_fix.diff sent out by James Simmons on lkml yesterday (found at http://www.transvirtual.com/~jsimmons/fbdev_fixs.diff) 4) attached is also a small patch to fix another common bug in 2.5.11 (kbuild-2.5-common-2.4.10-fix2.patch) 5) patch kbuild-2.5-tftpboot-target-2.5.11.patch (attached) to get tftpboot.img target (KAOS: where should we put the help entries for kbuild stuff in the 2.5.x tree?) 6) the sparc asm-offset stuff is not a done deal. this is a first crack to just get kbuild to build the kernel. a new one with a fixed asm-offset will come out soon. all the patches mentioned are on my http site as the sourceforge list does not support such large emails http://members.telocity.com/~tduffy/kbuild-2.5-common-2.4.10-fix2.patch http://members.telocity.com/~tduffy/linux-2.5.11-sparc64hacks.patch http://members.telocity.com/~tduffy/kbuild-2.5-tftpboot-target-2.5.11.patch http://members.telocity.com/~tduffy/kbuild-2.5-sparc64-2.5.11-1 please test and send bugs, fixes, flames, etc. my way. -tduffy
