Frans Pop wrote:
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Chris Newport wrote:An underlying issue here is that the soc.c and socal.c drivers are not maintained and have not worked since 2.2.x This means that the disk packs ( 3 drawers of 10 disks each ) usually found on these machines will not work.In that case I would say that the request to have them included in D-I was not correct and that we should remove them again. If I see no objections to that over the next few days, I will make that change.Cheers, FJP
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-sparc@lists.debian.org/msg20892.htmlsays socal works from vanilla sources, if the poster was building a kernel current at the time of his post then he can confirm they do work and should stay.
Wish I could do more than just state the obvious. Hamish