PLD on sun4u/sparc64

[Mariusz Mazur]

On piątek 17 czerwca 2005 07:58, Chris Poon wrote:
> I've been running 2.6 series since 2.6.5, and the latest 2.6.11.10 with PaX
> turned on (just not the wisest thing to do as so many libraries are tagged
> with executable stack required even though they don't need it). I remember
> iptables used to be pretty bad, XFS is another for me under 2.6,
> specificall xfs_growfs when it tries to make ioctl32 calls. ifenslave would
> never report the correct information and earlier versions of it wouldn't
> even work properly. Just a few things I listed - I want to make a 2.6 based
> PLD sparc64 system, but it seems that I would have much better luck with
> Gentoo or Debian (which isn't exactly stablized on 2.6 either). The main
> issue I have is a working 64 bit userland compiler (seems to me that
> crosssparc64 only works for the kernel) so that if push comes to shove, I
> can produce the libraries for a 64 bit userland so stuff like XFS and
> iptables would work properly.

Seems to me, that having full sparc64 support in PLD3.0 might be a good idea, 
since there's considerable interest in it.


-- 
In the year eighty five ten
God is gonna shake his mighty head
He'll either say,
"I'm pleased where man has been"
Or tear it down, and start again