Fix for bridge-utils for Sparc64

I know this is only on the periphery of interest for this group, but since I've seen questions asked about it and it's the Distro I tested and am using the fix on, I thought this might be of interest... -- Thanks to Santiago (Santi) Leon for providing the following fix to me to enable bridging

RE: Fix for bridge-utils for Sparc64

-Original Message- You reversed the diff and your email client mangled it, too... You're right about the reversed diff...oops. Looks like my client sent the message OK, not sure why it got wrapped later... Just adding or removing some magic constants isn't good. If there's

Booting custom kernel

Thanks to Igmar, I can now build a custom kernel (Sparc64) for my Ultra 60. Unfortunately, I have not been able to figure out how to boot it. I install the kernel in /boot and run silo, but when I boot I get this: Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz), No Keyboard OpenBoot 3.17, 2048

Bridging

Using Kernel 2.4.25 and bridge-utils64, I still can not get bridging working on the Sparc64 platform. Is anyone interested in helping me figure out what's wrong? If so, what can I do? Would I have better luck using 2.6.X? Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Jim

RE: Building custom kernel

Ben, I'd be interested in your input on this. I thought the latest direction was to use gcc 3.3.3+ for kernel compilation versus egcs64. Please correct me if I'm wrong... Jim If you want to build custom kernel, I suggest that you should download the source from ftp://ftp.kernel.org or

RE: bridging ethernet problem

Just to save Ben the trouble, one thing I can tell is that you can't use bridge-utils, you must use bridge-utils64 from: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/ How does it work with that? Jim sorry guys for my english, I need help for configuring ethernet bridging into debian sparc.

RE: noob with a few questions

Perhaps. I don't care for using 4 and 5 for starting X. I understand not starting some or all network services in 2 and everything in 3, but in practice I have never seen this used. I suspect that is why everything is started in 2. Few people understand how to use run levels. Like you said,

How to build custom sparc64 kernel?

I can't figure out how to build a custom Sparc64 kernel. I need to build a 64bit custom SMP kernel for an Ultra 60 (2 CPUs). I have gotten the 2.4.25 source (both Debian and from kernel.org). I can't get either (or 2.4.24) to work. (Note that in between each attempt I do a make mrproper to

RE: noob with a few questions

Agreed - I definitely prefer the way it's done in Debian. I think it makes sense to put some daemons in inittab, like licensing daemons or things that provide crucial services, but I don't think X-Display Managers (xdm, gdm, etc...) fall into this category. I guess I also like how some

Building custom kernel

I am trying to build a custom kernel under Debian Sparc64 using a recent 2.4 kernel. I am running the latest of everything (unstable) via apt-get dist-upgrade. I tried to install the minimum amount of packages necessary. I am running on a 2 CPU Ultra 60. I did an apt-get kernel-source-2.4.25