Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:52:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregory Ade <gkade@bigbrother.net> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109281713350.902-100000@tigger.unnerving.org> Subject: [suse-sparc] which 2.4 kernel?
So what is the is the latest kernel that's known to compile and boot clean
on sparc? I'm specifically interested in 32-bit.
I've got an SS5 and an SS10, and i'm trying desperately to remain calm. I
was just trying to build linux-2.4.10 (clean source tree) with only the
necessary options to suit my needs, and as much as possible built as
modules.
I'm compiling on the SS5 (SuSE 7.1), and the first time the compile died
it did so in the promlib directory of the kernel (during make vmlinux). I
read something (either here or in the sparclinux list) that said 2.4.x
kernels need to be built with SMP to work right on sun4m systems, so I did
a "make distclean && make menuconfig && make dep && make vmlinux". I
re-created the config from scratch, but the only difference was this time
I chose SMP support. Now, the compile died somewhere in the reiserfs
directory. So i do the same thing again, but this time remove ReiserFS
entirely. make dep fails. try again. system freezes, can't ping it
anymore, and i lose my connection (and hence, any error messages that
would be useful.
The SS5 has 128MB ram, 170mhz processor, runnign SuSE 7.1/sparc with the
default 2.2.18 kernel. This is the first time this machine has frozen
since install (about a week ago, heavy use in the last 3 days). I've
tried SuSE's 2.4.2 kernel, and it seems to crash if you even look at the
machine.
If I can get anything useful off the console when I get home, i'll follow
this post with it.
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