[gentoo-dev] Made sparc32 port of gentoo

[gentoo-dev] Made sparc32 port of gentoo

[maarten]

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?


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


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


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?


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.

Thanks!
maarten

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

[Jared H. Hudson]

That's awesome. Congrats. I've thought about doing the same thing, but all 
my Sun's are Sunstation 1's and 2's. So, I've not looked forward to 
compiling on them. I would email Daniel directly if I were you, concerning 
this. drobbins@gentoo.org

-Jared H.

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?
> 
> 
> 2) Can I put the stage 1 tarball on your site?
> 
> 
> 3) Can you setup a new CVS tree so it can be accessed like:
> SYNC="rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-sparc-portage"
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks!
> maarten
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gentoo-dev mailing list
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
> 

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

[maarten]

Jared,

Another one with old Sparc hardware :). I'll be sure to lower the stage1
CPU requirements to hopefully include support for sun4c and better though
I might not be able to test it on anything less than sun4m. I use sun4u 
for building.

cheers,
maarten

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Jared H. Hudson wrote:

> 
> That's awesome. Congrats. I've thought about doing the same thing, but all 
> my Sun's are Sunstation 1's and 2's. So, I've not looked forward to 
> compiling on them. I would email Daniel directly if I were you, concerning 
> this. drobbins@gentoo.org
> 
> -Jared H.
> 
> 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?
> > 
> > 
> > 2) Can I put the stage 1 tarball on your site?
> > 
> > 
> > 3) Can you setup a new CVS tree so it can be accessed like:
> > SYNC="rsync://cvs.gentoo.org/gentoo-sparc-portage"
> > 
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > maarten
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > gentoo-dev mailing list
> > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
> > 
> 
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> Using the internet as it was originally intended...
> for the further research of pornography and pipebombs.
> 

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

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Thursday 11 April 2002 17:15, maarten@murphy.belgonet.be wrote:
> Jared,
>
> Another one with old Sparc hardware :). I'll be sure to lower the
> stage1 CPU requirements to hopefully include support for sun4c and
> better though I might not be able to test it on anything less than
> sun4m. I use sun4u for building.
>
> cheers,
> maarten
>

I have a sparc-classic, that I could use for testing. It would be fun, 
the only problem is its limited harddisk (nfs??? I don't know yet)
Paul

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

[Marc Soda]

I have a Netra to test on.

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:02:16 +0200
Paul de Vrieze <paul@devrieze.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 11 April 2002 17:15, maarten@murphy.belgonet.be wrote:
> > Jared,
> >
> > Another one with old Sparc hardware :). I'll be sure to lower the
> > stage1 CPU requirements to hopefully include support for sun4c and
> > better though I might not be able to test it on anything less than
> > sun4m. I use sun4u for building.
> >
> > cheers,
> > maarten
> >
> 
> I have a sparc-classic, that I could use for testing. It would be fun,
> the only problem is its limited harddisk (nfs??? I don't know yet)
> Paul
> 
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> Junior Researcher
> Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl
> Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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> 


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

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

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

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

[maarten]

Hi!

> > 1) Are you 'friendly' towards ports?
> 
> Yes.

Great! I've always found the other linux distributions for sparc lacked 
coherency as the development team for it is too fragmented. I think a 
source distribution can get around those problems.

> > Shall I write a patch?
> 
> Yes.

OK.

> > 4) I'm working on a 64-bit capable version using redhat's gcc
> 
> Sounds like a reasonable intermediate solution.
> 
> Will your sparc32 port work on the Sun IPC and IPX machines ?

Good question. I haven't decided on a lowest common denominator yet. I am 
currently using -msupersparc for my builds as this is the lowest 
platform that I can reasonably use to make a stage1. IPC and IPX are just 
too darn slow :).

I'll remove the build flags altogether for the stage1 as they're not
really needed. In this case the lowest platform would be the lowest
supported by kernel/gcc/glibc, that's sun4c (IPC) IIRC.

Thanks for the input,
maarten