I have read the schedule posted on the Fedora Project page and it indicates that there may be a SPARC architecture version of Fedora coming down the pipe. Any news on this?
Thanks
David
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:55 -0600, David.Estacio@sycoleman.com wrote:
I have read the schedule posted on the Fedora Project page and it indicates that there may be a SPARC architecture version of Fedora coming down the pipe. Any news on this?
Well, so far, so good. The major errors so far are:
PIE support does not work on sparc at the moment. This means that every Fedora package with PIE embedded into it has to be conditionalized for sparc.
Building NPTL for sparcv9 requires glibc-kernheaders to be 2.6, not 2.4. This also requires patching of things like util-linux and rhpl.
The 2.6 kernel, well, it has some eccentricities at the moment, such as "cannot build kernel when booted into 2.6", that I'm trying to work out.
I've got a good amount of packages built, but the tree is not currently installable. Nevertheless, I will get it out, even if it takes a little longer than Fedora x86*.
~spot --- Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat*com> LCA, RHCE Red Hat Sales Engineer || Aurora SPARC Linux Project Leader
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 10:29:48AM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:55 -0600, David.Estacio@sycoleman.com wrote:
I have read the schedule posted on the Fedora Project page and it indicates that there may be a SPARC architecture version of Fedora coming down the pipe. Any news on this?
Well, so far, so good. The major errors so far are:
PIE support does not work on sparc at the moment. This means that every Fedora package with PIE embedded into it has to be conditionalized for sparc.
Yeah, on my todo list.
Building NPTL for sparcv9 requires glibc-kernheaders to be 2.6, not 2.4. This also requires patching of things like util-linux and rhpl.
Not true. It can use the same glibc-kernheaders as all other Fedora/RHEL3 arches. The thing is just that asm-sparc*/unistd.h needs to be updated with the newly added syscalls, nothing else.
Jakub
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 11:43 -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
Building NPTL for sparcv9 requires glibc-kernheaders to be 2.6, not 2.4. This also requires patching of things like util-linux and rhpl.
Not true. It can use the same glibc-kernheaders as all other Fedora/RHEL3 arches. The thing is just that asm-sparc*/unistd.h needs to be updated with the newly added syscalls, nothing else.
Ah. OK. Still, I don't see any reason to keep using the 2.4 headers if 2.6 is the direction going forward, especially since the only things affected so far have been glibc (duh), util-linux, and rhpl. In fact, Arjan said at one point that he intended to move the headers to 2.6. :)
~spot --- Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat*com> LCA, RHCE Red Hat Sales Engineer || Aurora SPARC Linux Project Leader
"The author's mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive. Not to be published." -- Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"