Re: [Ann] SparcV8 depot

[BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertrand@systella.fr>]

Chris Andrew wrote:
> CC'd this to a list that is trying to keep sparc-32 alive
> (http://wiki.debian.org/Sparc32).
> Thanks,
>
> Chris.
>
> On 18/02/2008, Martin Habets <errandir_news@mph.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Joël,
> >
> > I've got an SS20 with dual hypersparc. Kernels post 2.6.21 boot okay,
> > run in general, but a 'make -j 3' build of the kernel aborts a couple of
> > times with a bus error or similar vague errors.
> >
> > I'd be interested in a V8 repository.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:34:03AM +0100, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> > >       Hi folks,
> > >
> > >       I have built a 2.6.24.2 linux kernel on my SS20 (dual SM71) and it
> > >       is stable in SMP configuration with HIGHMEM. I haven't tested with
> > > HyperSPARC. Has anyone any information about HyperSPARC support ? I
> > > shall test, but if someone has tried before me... ;-)
> > >
> > >       I'm building deb packages to upgrade this workstation to
> > >       debian/testing (with of course only V8 support not V8+). I don't know if
> > > someone can be interested, but I think we can open a depot for sparc-V8
> > > package. I think I shall open an anonymous ftp server next week, but I
> > > won't do anything if I'm alone.
> > >
> > >       Regards,
> > >
> > >       JKB

	Hello,

	You can download first debian packages (strict V8) on 
http://newton.systella.fr/~bertrand/sparc32. I have uploaded a kernel 
(with built-in SX framebuffer support). URL can changes soon...

	Regards,

	JKB