Re: changes in the tree for sparc boot disks
Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr> writes:
> I also removed the step asking the user to choose bewteen local or GMT time for
> the hardware clock if running on sparc. If other arch want to do this as well,
> they just need to remove #define LOCALTIME in dboostrap.h.
Hurm... I see it is currently defined for i386, m68, powerpc.
I'll add a switch for it in the documentation.
I'm glad you remove this, BTW!
> Last of all, I disabled small libs for sparc it seems not to work :-( I always
> get the following message when booting from the newly generated disk:
Yes, library reduction is disabled for many architectures.
I assume sparc is splitting boot and root?
> I'm using egcc 2.91.60-5, binutils 2.9.5.0.12-2 and libc6 2.1.2-4 if it
> matters.
Hmm.. why not gcc 2.95.2?
> Any pointers why it fails?
I don't know. I don't see library reduction as a requirement for
potato.
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