On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 11:30:27PM +0200, Eric Delaunay wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm starting to work on a new set of bootdisks for one of the next 2.1 > subrelease. Since the 2.2.9 kernel built in potato are not usable for > installation software (heavily required features left out of the kernel > itself, > like iso9660 support, ...), I want to build a new one. > Could I go with 2.2.12 or do I need to stick to a previous one ? > > Moreover, which compiler should I use to build both sparc32 & sparc64 kernels > ? > slink or potato ? > > Thanks in advance.
I would say the 2.2.12 kernel since 2.2.11 saw a huge sparc sync. As far as compilers I would suggest the gcc-2.95.1 for the sparc32 compiler. Right now egcs64 does good for sparc64 kernels, but some parts (notably qlogic and 3c* drivers) don't compile, and possible other parts as well. I am working on rolling out 64bit support in our default gcc-2.95.1 compiler (default to -m32, but able to accept -m64). So far I have not had problems running a kernel (2.2.12 and 2.3.15) compiled with this on sparc64. Hope to give you more info tonight, I am right in the middle of setting up this gcc build for the 64bit support. Ben