Fixed! The problem with not being able to get a working kernel turned out
to be a problem with either my gcc-3.3 installation or version > 7.x of
kernel-package.
For some reason, sparc64-linux-gcc was not being used to compile the kernel
(even though egcs64 was/is installed).
Uninstalling gcc-3.3 & kernel-package (by reverting my apt sources.list to
stable only) and reinstalling gcc-2.95 and the older 7.x version of
kernel-package enabled me to compile a working kernel.
Is this a bug in either kernel-package or the gcc-3.3 packaging, or am I
doing something wrong?
sat
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