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Re: way forward for old sparc?



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.

--
Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd%twofifty.com@localhost
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