Re: multi sparc bootable CDROM

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr> writes:

> Steve Dunham wrote:
> > Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr> writes:
> > 
> > > BTW, have you tried to build bootdisks dedicated to the ultra port based on
> > > the boot-floppies package ?  Working bootdisks could be a start for me to see
> > > the differences.

> > I've managed to build a kernel package from the 2.2.0-pre5 source
> > using kpkg (with some minor tweaks). And you can grab the
> > package from:

> >   ftp://www.cse.msu.edu/pub/debian/kernel-image-2.2.0-pre5_1.0.sparc.deb

> Thanks but I don't have ultrasparc on hand to test it :-((
> I will play with 2.2 for sparc before to fix 2.2 specific support in
> bootdisks then I hope you will just have to replace the kernel & modules with
> the ultra ones.
> Just one question: the installation program is running modprobe (from the
> modutils package) to load modules.  Is it working the same on ultralinux (no
> explicit call to insmod64 have to be made) ?

No explicit call needed.  The "insmod" program detects sparc64 and
exec()s "insmod64, if necessary.


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu