Re: way forward for old sparc?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Michael wrote:

> Hello,
> On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>
>       On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>             Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost> writes:
>
>
>                   On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>
>                         I have a sparc classic mostly as a toy, and it's running 
> 1.6.  Obviously
>
>                         it needs new bits, but it only has 64 MB of ram.  I am 
> inclined to
>
>                         binary update it to netbsd-4 via a build on i386 Is 
> that a reasonable
>
>                         thing to do?  Any advice to go to netbsd-3 instead?
>
>
>                   I'm running netbsd-4 on my 'classic pretty reliably. It's my 
> firewall.
>
>
>             Thanks.  I just realized I only have 24 MB, too.
>
>
>       Oh, and remember to cross-build because on the 'classic things take a
>       while.
>
>
> ... and while there don't forget to put -mcpu=v8 -mtune=v8 into CFLAGS, 
> otherwise you'd get v7 binaries which would slow things
> down even more.

Is there an easy way to do this just for the cross build? I'm always
confused about all this.

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