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( [63.207.177.3]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i37sm172850wxd.2006.02.25.12.13.20; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:13:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4400B9DC.4050902@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:11:08 -0800 From: gentuxx User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org CC: Mike Owen Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] Re: 2.6 kernel References: <4BB1E365BF26D311914A00805FA6A1C11FCD20BD@admsrvnt02.enet.sharplabs.com> <8f5ca2210602241408s535bd53bn9b83ea1f4efda73f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 54077ae8-3207-4087-82db-d68802ca8180 X-Archives-Hash: f87c6ed83fa471d6efd3ac9aaf18637d -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Mike Owen wrote: > > >> On 2/24/06, Longman, Bill wrote: > >> > >>>> nevermind, after futher searching it seems that all the 2.6 > >>>> kernels are masked. what a drag.... > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 2/24/06, Nick Smith wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> got no response on my other thread, so how about a simple > question. > >>>>> what would i have to do to upgrade to 2.6 from 2.4? is it a > >>>> > >>>> matter of > >>>> > >>>>> just downloading the vanilla-sources for sparc and going > >>>> > >>>> through the > >>>> > >>>>> config/compile process? would i have to do something > >>>> > >>>> special to get it > >>>> > >>>>> to work? > >>> > >>> > >>> That doesn't mean you can't play with it, though. Just pull it > down and > >>> compile it. It's rather frustrating, but it's good practice, no? > Who doesn't > >>> like compiling kernels on a 166MHz SPARC? > >>> > >>> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~sparc" emerge -f --oneshot gentoo-sources > >>> > >>> should get you the latest 2.6.15-r5. Tweak command line as > needed for other > >>> versions. > >> > >> > >> I'm having very good success with gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1. I have it > >> running on a pair of V210s. The only problem I've had is SMP doesn't > >> work, which I've been told I can fix by playing with the way RAM is > >> installed, but I've yet to try that. > >> > >> If you do decided to give it a spin, you'll need to install udev > and a > >> curent linux-headers. > >> > >> Mike > >> > >> -- > >> gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org mailing list > >> > >> > > 2.6.15-rx runs very well for me on U60, SB1000. It is just hopless > on U2, though. NO 2.6 runs on U2 worth a damn. It is beyond me why > the kernel people don't sit down and fix it. Yes, I am getting > upset about this. I am not a kernel guy, and can't help. But 2.6 > DOES NOT WORK on U1/U2. > > Now, I've vented. > Regards, > Ferris > -- > Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) > Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) I'm running 2.6.15-r5 on 3 different Ultra1's. Everything seems to be going fine. Linux cf-node001 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 21 19:42:49 GMT 2006 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire) GNU/Linux Linux cf-node003 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 17 16:43:46 UTC 2006 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire) GNU/Linux Linux cf-node004 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 21 18:24:56 UTC 2006 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire) GNU/Linux - -- gentux echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEALnbLYGSSmmWCZMRAkxpAKDFT5578iVCYCOlG5mzwwB4GHIVSQCgnrbd /1AR0b89kLicn+e+KQq3FGA= =yrwn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-sparc@gentoo.org mailing list