Re: New kernel for testing

Rick Thompson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.sparc
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Can we take this as a sign that the 32-bit support will not be dropped
in the hopefully upcoming 8.1 release?

Just wondering

Rick Thompson


On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 12:53, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I made a new 2.4 kernel based on 2.4.20-pre7 public for testing. It
> is tested on sun4m and sun4u. I doubt that it works on sun4c or
> sun4d, but I don't have hardware to test that.
> 
> You can find this below ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/kukuk/SPARC/
> 
> You can also find a new gcc 3.2 and a current glibc in this directory.
> 
> I would be happy about any feedback, on which machines it works and
> on which not.
> 
> reiserfs, jfs, ext3 and xfs are supported on 32bit and 64bit SPARC.
> I know that jfs makes some assumptions which fails on sparc64, so
> expect big problems here.
> 
> New filesystem utilities for reiserfs/jfs/xfs/ext3 will follow the
> next hours.
> 
>   Thorsten
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