On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:17:05PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi to all! > > Kernel 2.6 is to be released soon (hopefully), thus I tried to compile > 2.5.69 on sparc64 recently. For those not knowing this arch: kernel is > 64 bit, userland is 32 bit, thus you need a cross-compiler with host > sparc32 and target sparc64 to compile a kernel. > > The problem is that the currently provided cross-compiler in package > "egcs64" is _very_ old (1998) and does not work for 2.5.x any more; > OTOH, the provided gcc does not support cross-compiling to 64-bit.
Wrong and wrong. egcs64 will build 2.5.x, but it is not supported anymore. You can comment out the error in init/main.c and get working kernel. Also, gcc-3.3 will compile 64bit kernels, but they do not boot. > Are there any plans to provide a recent version? IMHO the package egcs > should be dropped completely, since "egcs" is history for a long time > now... You presume too much. egcs64 is still the prefered compiler for 2.4.x sparc64 kernels, and 2.6 wont be around for awhile. I do have a gcc-3.2.3 64bit compiler available from http://www.phunnypharm.org/~bcollins/sparc/ as an interim solution. In the long run, I hope to have gcc-3.3 building working sparc64 kernels. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
