On 2/24/06, Longman, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > nevermind, after futher searching it seems that all the 2.6
> > kernels are masked. what a drag....
> >
> >
> > On 2/24/06, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

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