Linux 2.2.17 on SPARC & AX25/BPQ
Hello Everyone, Ive cross posted this message to debian-hams, and debian-sparc, , as it involves both, so my apologies if this is off topic for you. (In replies, please only send to the list that you are subscribed to, or me directly, in an attempt to reduce the amount of cross pollution) Anyway, I have potato installed, currently running, and was about to recompile my kernel (2.2.17) with AX25 and BGP support. However, I note that there is no BPQ option in make xconfig, and after a little digging, I find that it is in the i386 architecture source tree, but not the SPARC. My question is simple (and I know strictly speaking this is could be considered slightly off-topic for both lists, sorry), but: Does BPQ (AX-25 over ethernet) work on Debian-SPARC ? Is it just someone has done a merge of two trees, and the config stuff got lost ? Or does BPQ rely on something on the i386 architecture ? Or am I missing something totally obvious ? I have tried both the stock kernel, and added Mattias's (DG2FEF) patch [from DG1KJD's home page], and found BPQ missing in the kernel config stuff both times. Personally, I see no reason why BPQ shouldn't work, after all ethernet frames are ethernet frames, but maybe the BPQ driver doesnt talk to the Sun Lance driver ? (After all, under intel architecture, how can it know what particular Net Card it is talking to ?) Anyway, any help, or advice will be gratefully received and apologies to anyone on both lists who finds this off topic Best Regards Iain(G7III) PS: Althought I am (supposidly) on both lists, please CC [EMAIL PROTECTED], in order to ensure I actually receive your reply [Don't ask, else Ill start the ISP/MTA /Whatever broke this time rant...]
Re: multiple copies of mpicc
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:30:06AM -0700, Shandar Ahmad wrote: > I installed mpich using the debian package on my new > debian SPARC cluster. It makes three copies of mpicc This sort of thing isn't really Sparc-specific - you'd probably get a better response by asking a list like debian-beowulf or the package maintainer (if things are breaking you should probably file a bug report). > /usr/bin/mpicc > /etc/alternatives/mpicc > /lib/mpich/build/LINUX/ch_4/bin/mpicc > and /lib/mpich/bin/mpicc > (This is also true for other mpi directives e.g. > mpirun). > Can one tell me what are these four copies meant for > and how to make a better install. That looks roughly like what it did when I used to maintain MPICH (assuming the /lib directories are really under /usr/lib) but this may not be the case. Anyway: If you look you'll probably find that all those copies are the same thing symbolically linked. The files in /usr/lib/mpich are there because that's where the MPICH upstream source wants to put them (both copies). /usr/bin/mpicc is there because that's where users expect to find their executables. Since there are multiple MPI implementations in Debian, each of which can provide things like mpirun, mpicc and mpif77 these things in /usr/bin are managed using the alternatives system, which symlinks from /usr/bin into /etc/alternatives which symlinks to the real binary. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpD9m7krNown.pgp Description: PGP signature
multiple copies of mpicc
I installed mpich using the debian package on my new debian SPARC cluster. It makes three copies of mpicc and similar files. This causes lot of problem in installing certain parallel program and hangs some of them. The copies are /usr/bin/mpicc /etc/alternatives/mpicc /lib/mpich/build/LINUX/ch_4/bin/mpicc and /lib/mpich/bin/mpicc (This is also true for other mpi directives e.g. mpirun). Can one tell me what are these four copies meant for and how to make a better install. Shandar __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: sparc vs apollo
Hello > Does anyone here know how a HP Apollo Model 715 compares with a > Sparc. For instance is a Apollo 715 similar in terms of cpu > horsepower to a sparc lx, sparc 4, sparc 5, etc? SPEC http://www.spec.org/> is your friend, e.g: model SPECint95 SPECfp95 -- - HP 9000 Series 700 Model 715/100 2.89 3.47 Sun SPARCstation 5 model 170 3.53 3.00 Sun Ultra 5 model 2709.1710.6 ... cheers -- TS
