Re: [gentoo-dev] Made sparc32 port of gentoo

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@prosalg.no>]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 maarten@murphy.belgonet.be wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've made a sparc32 port of Gentoo but I couldn't find any mention of
> porting in the documentation. I'd like to know:
> 
> 1) Are you 'friendly' towards ports?

Yes. 

> 2) Can I put the stage 1 tarball on your site?

That should be doable. Contact drobbins@gentoo.org for details.

> 3) Can you setup a new CVS tree so it can be accessed like:
> SYNC="rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-sparc-portage"

Again, contact drobbins.

> 
> 3) The linux-headers packages contain 2 platform specific lines, can these 
> be wrapped using uname -m statements?
> 
> cp -ax ${S}/include/asm-i386/* ${D}/usr/include/asm
> [...]
> cp "${ROOT}usr/src/linux-${KV}/arch/i386/defconfig" .config
> 
> Shall I write a patch?

Yes.

> 4) I'm working on a 64-bit capable version using redhat's gcc
> 2.96-20000731 for compiling sparc64 (the kernel prefers this). Would it be
> possible to have this package stored on your site? There are >300 patches
> that are applied to this tree so I'd rather not duplicate that work and
> publish a patched tree immediately. This problem is going away anyway as
> we'll reportely have decent sparc64 capability in the upcoming gcc 3.1
> tree.

Sounds like a reasonable intermediate solution.

Will your sparc32 port work on the Sun IPC and IPX machines ?

Kind regards,

Karl T