30 Dec 2011 19:28
a gentoo-based linux on sun sparc32 sun4m
Magnus Lindholm <linmag7 <at> gmail.com>
2011-12-30 18:28:01 GMT
2011-12-30 18:28:01 GMT
Hi all, It occurred to me that there are no currently active and up-to-date linux distros that support sparc32 hardware. I've put together a gentoo based linux in the form of a live-cd and a "stage3" system tarball. Those of you that are familiar with gentoo will know what to do. If not, just follow the gentoo sparc install guide. I've tested it on sparcstation 4,5, 10 and 20. The sparcstation 10 and 20 I've tested with SMP. Hypersparc works as well but not with a more recent kernel than 2.6.31.9. Single CPU microsparc and supersparc work with recent kernels like 3.1.5 let me know if you want to give it a try, I can provide an install iso and a system tarball via ftp. Regards Magnus Lindholm
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