Hi, >This has already been said a dozen of time, but it looks like some >people do not understand. Let's try a last time. > >Creating a 32-bit sparc repository won't help. We already know that the >32-bit sparc userland, is working correctly (apart for a dozen of >packages, but that's fixable), as the *current* Debian sparc port has a >*32-bit userland*.
As long as sparc userland gets build for v8, yes. Sooner or later, it will get switched over to v9. >The problem is that the 32-bit sparc kernel is not maintained and starts >to not work correctly. There are huge differences in the privileged mode >of sparc v8 and sparc v9, on the instructions, but mainly on the other >parts of the CPU, like the MMU, SMP support or exception handling. >That's why you can't use a 32-bit kernel on a 64-bit sparc, whereas most >other 32-/64-bit architectures support that. It may be not formally maintained, but there are patches being sent to Dave Miller and to [EMAIL PROTECTED] at a promising rate lately, HTH, Uli -- Dipl. Inf. Ulrich Teichert|e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stormweg 24 |listening to: Channel 13 Is Haunted (Hex Dispensers) 24539 Neumuenster, Germany|Is It Good Or Is It Bad? (Opération S) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
