From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN, DMARC_MISSING,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from picard.skynet.be (picard.skynet.be [195.238.3.131]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4A8D201CEBB for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:13:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from murphy.belgonet.be (adsl-46339.turboline.skynet.be [217.136.53.3]) by picard.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with SMTP id g3BFCux06331; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:12:56 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Received: by murphy.belgonet.be (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:11:00 +0200 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:11:00 +0200 (CEST) From: maarten@murphy.belgonet.be X-X-Sender: maarten@murphy.localnet To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Cc: karltk@prosalg.no Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Made sparc32 port of gentoo In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 929f490e-8171-4336-b349-84867e65d4a7 X-Archives-Hash: ea02bef5f6044fb00cd14caf85744178 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