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

[Chris Andrew]

Jos,

Thanks for that.  Looks like it will be a 2.4 kernel, then.  I didn't know
about the Gentoo embedded option.  I'll try to install Aurora, an see what
happens.  It works fine on my Ultra 10.

Cheers,

Chris.

On 24/07/07, Jos van der Ende <seraph at xs4all.nl> 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.
>
> Indeed. The sparc64 people are sometimes nice enough to port whatever they
> do to sparc32 as well, but it cannot be counted upon.
>
> Gentoo supported sparc32 up to last year, but they dropped it in their
> 2007.0 release. I think only Debian supports sparc32 at the moment, and
> word is they are about to drop it as well.
>
> I'm currently phasing out all my sparc32 systems. Might keep one or two
> around to play with (Gentoo Embedded may still work, I'll try), but I'm
> replacing all the serious stuff with sparc64.
>
> >> 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.
>
> I tried a 2.6 kernel on a SS10 with 2 CPUs last year. The thing crashed
> within five minutes, and the later 2.6 kernels don't even compile with
> sparc32 SMP support anymore. Something is seriously broken, and as
> mentioned above there is nobody to fix it.
>
> Best to stick with a 2.4 kernel if you need to do SMP on sparc32.
>
> Oh, if only I were a kernel hacker... :-)
>
>
> Jos
>
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