Re: Running 32 bit SPARC on UltraSPARC

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

I'm not trying to run Solaris binaries - just 32 bit NetBSD SPARC.

> Things that rely on libkvm or certain ioctl()s that don't have 32-bit
> compatibility code may not work.  Last time I did this there were some
> obscure sysadmin tasks that required 64-bit binaries.

I'll start building, and I suppose we can pull these out later when we 
find them :)

John
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