Anyone actually running a 32 bit kernel on sun4u?

[Chris Poon]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:45:33 +0200, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> 
> AFAIK it won't work.
> >From linux-2.6.10/arch/sparc/kernel/head.S:
> 
> sun4u_6:
>                 .asciz  "\n\rOn sun4u you have to use UltraLinux (64bit)
> kernel\n\rand not a 32bit sun4[cdem] version\n\r\n\r"
> 
> And yes, I saw this messate trying to boot sparc(32) kernel (2.4.x or
> 2.6.x, I don't remember now) once on Sun Ultra 1.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jakub Bogusz    http://qboosh.cs.net.pl/

Tried it for myself - SILO won't even try to boot the kernel.