On 29.11.02, 09:57:35, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:37:25AM +0100, avombach@freesurf.ch wrote:
> 
> > Is it also possible to install the sparc port from CD on e.g. a Ultra 5? 
> > For some reason there is a ultra kernel on the CD, but my ultra 5 does 
> > not boot from it.
> 
> Yes, there has been a bug in the 1.6 release preventing 32bit kernels
> to work on PCI machines. It has been fixed in -current and on the head
> of the 1.6 branch. There will be builds with that fix available (hopefully
> soon) and CD images too.

What is the reason one would want to use the sparc port on ultra sparc
machines instead of the sparc64 port?

Is there better hardware support or is it a question of userland binary
compatibility?

> 
> Martin
> 

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