Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 22:29:53 +0100 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20020308222953.A8708@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Will there be a SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?
On Fri, Mar 08, Paolo Marcheschi wrote:
> This is a very interesting question, It seems there is a huge lack of
> support here!! Where are the suse experts. I think There are a lot of
> bugs in the distribution, Is there a SUSE staff person to speak with, in
> this list ?
What did you expect? That you get free support for a free product?
There are SuSE employes on this list and if they have time they
will answer questions. But even this form of support costs something,
and if it is only our free time.
Why do you think does Red Hat and Mandrake stop their SPARC support?
You cannot refinance it over selling boxes. Remember how expensive a
UltraSPARC is and which different hardware you need to support a wide
range of SPARC hardware. No Linux Distributor has so much money only
to give something back to the Linux comunity for free.
The bad news: For 8.0, as in the past, I will skip one version.
The good news: We will continue with 8.1, if I'm able to get more and
faster UltraSPARCs (Hey, where are the people from Sun on this list?
Since Sun mentioned SuSE Linux for SPARC in their Linux announcement,
maybe they can start loaning me newer and faster hardware?)
My few current ones are far to slow to compile current glibc/gcc and
qt.
But I don't think that 32bit SPARCs will be supported any longer:
it is impossible to use our current installer with kernel 2.2
and kernel 2.4 is still far away from running stable. It is possible
to configure a minimal kernel which runs on most of the 32bit SPARCs,
but this kernel misses to much important features. And I don't see
a kernel developer looking at this :-(
Now to the known, four bugs:
- Some people have problems with missing SUN labels. As already
written, at least twice, on this list: Use the expert partitioner,
select "extra options", clear the boot block and reread the partition
table. This always works fine for me.
- ADSL support: I have some reports that it works fine and some that
it does not work. Since I don't have the posibility to test it, I
cannot look at it.
- If you load the UK keyboard mapping into the X11 server, the machine
crashes. I don't know what happens here, and the X11 developers are
busy with other things and don't have the time to look at it at the
moment.
- On 32bit SPARCs the installer does not identify CD2-CD5 correct,
a problem due the fact that I had to use the 32bit kernel.
I think for the third SuSE Linux/SPARC release this is not so bad ;-)
Thorsten
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