Re: http://developer.gaisler.net/debian/ sparc32 wheezy repostitory

[Patrick Baggett <baggett.patrick@gmail.com>]

Packages are one thing but...Didn't the linux kernel drop SPARCv7/8 support? I remember reading their atomic ops and they uses 'cas' and 'casx' which are very clearly sparcv9 instructions. It might have been a conditional code path

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Alexander Feld <mrshadowtux@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi,

> Just want to make public:
> I've put some effort into a sparc32 repository
> containing wheezy packages:
> http://developer.gaisler.net/debian/
> Most of the packages are cross-compiled, more
> natively compiled will follow...
> There is also a 64-bit sparc-32 cross compiler
> with many dev-packages preinstalled:
> http://developer.gaisler.net/debian/cross-compiler/sparc-linux-gnu-cross_1.0.0-1_amd64.deb

Cool thing! Did you try to build mre packages like a kernel as well? I would really love to have a Wheezy system on my Sparcstation 20

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Alexander Feld <mrshadowtux@googlemail.com>

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