Re: Running 32 bit SPARC on UltraSPARC

Sad Clouds <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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?
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