Re: Support for Linux on Sparc?

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Matt Distefano wrote:

> This might be something of a stupid question (my apologies if that is the 
> case), but do the tulip drivers on scyld.com support the Sparc port of 
> Linux? I have an UltraSparc-based system with a Znyx 4-port 10/100 NIC, and 
> I'm having some problems with the drivers built in to the 2.4.20 kernel, so 
> I figured I'd try the ones provided on the Scyld site. However, I'm running 
> into a lot of errors when compiling, and before I spam the list with that 
> rather lengthy set of errors,

It is likely that only the first few lines of the error message are
relevant.

My guess is that you do not have the correct header files for the kernel
that you are running.

> I figured I ought to check and see whether 
> the driver even supports Sparc systems.

The Tulip driver should work, but since Scyld does not release a Sparc
port we do not test the driver on Sparc systems.  If there is a problem
it is most likely an issue with cache coherency.

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