Re: Re: hypersparc Wow! Maybe someone else has done our work for us!

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Christian Joensson wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:25:18AM -0500, Allen Parker wrote:
> > Anybody seen/tested gentoo on sparc? They claim to have HyperSPARC
> > support!
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-install.xml
> > 
> > Could someone confirm/deny this?
> 
> this would be significant information, but I assume if so, they must
> have their own patches to the 2.4.x/2.5.y kernels or be using 2.2.z
> kernels...

Heh. Gentoo barely works on sparc64, much less sparc32. Scroll down a 
little bit and look at this important note:

Note: Sparc32 support is extremely limited and not entirely supported at 
this time.

They're not doing anything special here, besides claiming hardware support 
that doesn't work (most notably, sun4d and ss5/170).

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