--- Chris Newport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have no idea about Gentoo versions, but Splack 8.0 > has a working 2.2 > kernel with soc and socal modules. Everything you > need to experiment > with 2.4 is there, but the toolset and compiler are > too old for 2.6 > In general, you should not need to have the Sun > firmware in your > drivers, just upload them to the card and array from > Solaris and they > will stay there in nvram. This avoids contaminating > Linux with Sun's code. > The procedure for socal is similar to my procedure > for soc, take a look > at the Solaris man pages for luxadm etc.
Ah. I just did some reading and learned that 'splack' is a slackware distro for Sparc. Cool. I've been using Slackware for x86 since 1995 (I remember booting kernel 1.2.13 on a 486sx25 with 2M ram!) I recently moved to Gentoo because I like the "portage" thingy. Anyway.... I will try booting splack on the box too. And flashing the socal drivers, and running "luxadm". Thank you for your help. I really do appreciate it. ===== Dennis Jenkins - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
