Subject: Re: Kernel for SLC
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@cam.ac.uk>
From: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/17/2000 17:55:02
Send me a config file and I'll start my SS1 cranking on it:

grunza@hw-ss1%(1) uname -a
NetBSD hw-ss1 1.4 NetBSD 1.4 (HW-SS1) #2: Mon Jun  7 12:28:48 EDT 
1999     root@
hw-ss1:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/HW-SS1 sparc

At 10:48 PM 1/17/00 +0000, Ben Harris wrote:
>As PR#8535 says, NetBSD 1.4.x GENERIC kernels seem to be unable to boot on
>a SPARCstation SLC.  This is a bit of a pain for me, as I haven't got
>another SPARC running NetBSD to build myself a useful kernel on.  Is there
>anyone out there who could do this for me?  I think I just need a kernel
>without 'fdc' support, though dropping architectures other than sun4c
>would also be useful.  Perhaps if PR#8535 can't be fixed for 1.4.2, such a
>kernel should be supplied as part of 1.4.2 to allow people to boot it on
>SLCs.
>
>Incidentally, I tried to cross-build a kernel from a convenient Linux
>system, but GNU binutils seems to be broken with respect to building
>NetBSD/sparc binaries.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>--
>Ben Harris
>Unix Support, University of Cambridge Computing Service.