Re: Running 32 bit SPARC on UltraSPARC
Sad Clouds <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 03:57:41 +0000 (UTC) John Klos <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a note about the sparc64 kernel config files: > > options EXEC_ELF32 # Exec module for SunOS 5.x binaries. > > EXEC_ELF32 is required to run 32 bit NetBSD SPARC binaries, too. I > think the comment should reflect that. > > Are there any issues running pkgsrc builds for SPARC on UltraSPARC? > Anything I should look out for? > > Thanks, > John Are you running 32-bit via COMPAT_NETBSD32(8) as opposed to everything 32-bit native including the kernel? This was a long time ago, but COMPAT_NETBSD32 had various bugs/issues and not everything worked correctly. If you're not trying to run Solaris binaries, any reason you need 32-bit?