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

[maarten@murphy.belgonet.be]

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