Re: How to build custom sparc64 kernel?

[laura halliday]

I upgraded my eBay-special Ultra 5 (running woody) to
kernel 2.4.25 over the weekend. I ended up using egcs64
and everything went fine - the kernel build found the
compiler itself and everything fell in to place.

GCC 3.3 built a kernel that appeared to run, but it had
enough issues (unimplemented SPARC system calls,
bizarre numbers from ext2 file systems) that I backed
it off.

The former issue is known; the latter was insane
numbers for size/used/available on the root file system.
Probably a 64-vs-32 bit issue; my workaround (for now)
is the kernel I built with egcs64. If it ain't broke... :-)

GCC 3.3 didn't like the 2.6.4 source one bit, complaining at
length about deprecated use of casts in lvalues and
eventually throwing its hands up and quitting in disgust.
Another issue, for another rainy weekend.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg   pied a terre...
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Re: How to build custom sparc64 kernel?

[Frederik Schueler]

Hi,

presumed you use unstable, installing gcc-3.3 and lib64ncurses5-dev
should be enough to make menuconfig and build the kernel. At least 
it is on my U2, wich needs a 64bit kernel too. 

HTH
Frederik Schueler

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Re: How to build custom sparc64 kernel?

[Igmar Palsenberg]

 presumed you use unstable, installing gcc-3.3 and lib64ncurses5-dev
 should be enough to make menuconfig and build the kernel. At least 
 it is on my U2, wich needs a 64bit kernel too. 

The kernel that Sarge ships doesn't support 64 bit ELF's, and that is what 
GCC spits out by default.



Igmar