[Aurora-sparc-user] Wikipedia sparc 32 support.

[Chris Andrew]

Jima,

Thanks for that.  What do ISTR and UO mean?

Thanks,

Chris.

On 23/07/07, Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Chris Andrew wrote:
> > I've just joined the list.  Can I just say thanks very much to Tom
> _Spot_
> > Calloway, for adding information to the new sparc (32) Wikipedia
> > page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparc32_linux_distributions>.
> > If anybody wants to add any more content, then please feel free.  I have
> > great concerns that the 32-bit implementation is going to die.
>
>   With no upstream kernel maintainer, things look pretty bleak.  Any bugs
> that pop up need to be dealt with downstream.  It's not easy.
>
> > BTW, has anybody managed to get Aurora to install on an SS20, with 2
> > processors?  If so, can you point me to the ISO you used.
>
>   SS20?  Maybe.  With SMP?  Good luck.  Due to compatibility issues
> between
> sparc32 SMP and 2.6 kernels, it hasn't really been supported since Aurora
> 1.0 (which had a 2.4 kernel).  ISTR people barely getting it to work (by
> compiling their own heavily modified kernels), but I don't believe
> anyone's achieved stability.  UP, however, ought to work, although I
> haven't fired up my SS20 in quite some time to check.
>
>       Jima
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