Bug#68016: tftp and floppy install broken on sun4m

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

> 
> So what's the moral of the story: a (normal) bug report against gcc 2.95 
> because it seems to misoptimise jobs.c for sparc (although it works on 
> sparc64), an (important) bug report against ash to get it recompiled for 
> sparc potato (either disable -O2 for jobs.c or use gcc2.7.2.3) which is 
> needed to get proper boot floppies for sparc32 and a clarification to the
> boot floppies and busybox people which are not responsible for this bug.
> 
> I'll keep the boot floppies bug open anyway until we got new sparc boot 
> floppies with a fixed ash.

Thanks Christian, I've been hoping someone with the hardware would track
this down, and you did an excellent job of doing just that. I'll recompile
ash (binary only, w/o optimizations) and rebuild boot-floppies in time for
potato release.

Ben

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