On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:19:52 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 03:29:08PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 08:09:56AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:30:11PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > > > Hello,
>  <snip/>
> > > > My questions are:
> > > > 
> > > > * Are there succesfull reported sparc64 systems doing bridging?
> sparc64 seems indeed be some what special on the bridging aspect ...
> 
> > > > * What should I do to get that sparc64 acting as a bridge?
> > > A recompile with gcc-2.95 did not show improvement.
> > AFAICT it is brctl 1.0.4 that needs a 2.6 kernel.
> 
> Installing kernel 2.6.8 allowed me to do bridging on a sparc64

Yes, the cross 32/64 bit environment is not supported on 2.4.
In order to get size independence it meant changing the API to use sysfs which
is not available on 2.4
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