Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 09:14:46 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20010929091446.A27153@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] which 2.4 kernel?
On Fri, Sep 28, Gregory Ade wrote:
>
> 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.
32bit SPARC: 2.2.20pre10
64bit SPARC: 2.4.10
> 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.
Even if you get 2.4.10 compiled as SMP kernel for 32bit SPARC: It will
not work.
> Now, the compile died somewhere in the reiserfs directory.
For reiserfs you need the big endian patches.
> The SS5 has 128MB ram, 170mhz processor, runnign SuSE 7.1/sparc with the
^^^^^^
Bad idea. The SS5-170MHz is known to have problems and is official not
supported by the kernel hackers. If you have luck it works.
Thorsten
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