Re: [suse-sparc] kernel compile fails on ultrasparc64

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 00:57:12 PST

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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:57:12 +0100
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20001101095711.A14521@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] kernel compile fails on ultrasparc64

On Tue, Oct 31, Leif Sawyer wrote:

> I've tried everything I can (editing makefiles,etc) in hopes of getting a new kernel
> compiled (like 2.4.0-pre9 + reiserfs) so that I can do the things i'd like to do.. sigh.

A kernel with reiserfs cannot work on SPARC. The reiserfs people are
working on a 64bit version (1. step you need), but the whole code
does not compile on big-endian machines (second step you need).

Thorsten

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