Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>> On 9/10/06, peter.memishian at sun.com <peter.memishian at sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> We don't currently build ath on SPARC, which is why you cannot find a
>> Makefile. More importantly, the object-file-only[1] HAL layer is only
>> provided for x86 and x64 at this point (common/io/ath/hal_*.o.uu).
>> I think it would be possible to provide it for SPARC and SPARCv9,
>> but no one has done the necessary work.
>>
>> [1] My understanding is that the HAL source is owned by Atheros and its
>> terms do not enable redistribution -- hence the cursed uuencoded
>> object files in the source tree.
>>
>> --
>> meem
>>
>> I suspected the issue with the x86 HAL library, so I checked on madWIFI,
>> and they do mention SPA
>>
> RC as one of the archs supported in general. I couldn't tell however if they
> have released this par
> ticular binary, mainly because I don't know where to look for it.
>
>> Any further help is greatly appreciated,
>>
>
>
> I've found SPARC binaries before in the madwifi tar ball; look for the .uu
> files which contain the binary blobs.
>
They don't work. The problem is that it was not built with the
Solaris-modified gcc, and so the kernel loader doesn't like some of the
relocations. Sam needs to build with a different version of gcc.
-- Garrett
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