Re: Sarge may be last Debian release for 32 bit sparc systems
Am Dienstag, 26. Juli 2005 00:34 schrieb Martín Marqués:
> El Lun 25 Jul 2005 18:19, Hendrik Sattler escribió:
> > > Support of sun4c and sun4d was effectivly dropped from Sarge. The
> > > only reports trying d-i on this hardware that I remember seeing were
> > > failures, and noone bother to try to fix it. Upgrades from Woody may
> > > work, but were not well tested either.
> > >
> > > Sun4m is the last supported 32-bit sparc architecture. Reportedly,
> > > the 2.6 kernel does not work in multi-processor mode on them, and
> > > dropping support of 2.4 from Etch is being discussed.
> >
> > Ok, kernel development is not that easy, especially when it comes to SMP
> > support. Additionally, I do not understand how such support can break
> > during development...
>
> Please tell me if there is something else in debian with 64bit support.
> AFAIK the kernel is the only 64bit binary. Not even gcc is 64 bit.
>
> The question I have now is: If everything, except the kernel is 32 bit,
> what is it that's going to be dropped?
Sparc32-SMP (like an SS20 with two MBUS-Modules) can only use one CPU with
linux-2.6, dropping linux-2.4 (e.g. from installer) will make it a hard time
installing Debian on it (well, still possible, though).
Other could again argue on compiling with v9 instead of v8 (like currently
done). This would definitely kill sun4m.
HS
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