From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 15:59:21 +0000 Subject: Re: status of UltraPenguin? Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > > Hello Jakub, > > the UltraPenguin home page mentions -for some time already- the release > of a final release (followup on 1.0.9) "soon". > > Could you inform me about the status? Will it be on hold for a 2.2 kernel? Ok, this is not the first question, so I'll answer to everybody. I thought 1.1 will come soon after 1.0.9, but during the time we were fighting little bugs in 1.0.9, redhat came with 5.1, so I have mistakenly merged a few packages and the result is some broken things in the distribution, me already not knowing which rpms have changed from stock redhat and which not (and why). So, I've started two days ago with boot images, which I'm merging from current sparc rawhide with UP changes (and enhancing it, so it will finally autoprobe all sbus SCSI/NET cards and stuff like that). After that's done, I'll take a snapshot from rawhide as of a particular date and go one package by one and create a new distribution based on merge of rawhide with 1.0.9. I think I'm gonna to call that 1.0.10, then ask people to test it and release 1.1 quickly. A couple of things I want to have: the compiler will be egcs-current (ie. later than 1.1b, as major SPARC backend rewrite happened after 1.1b). The compiler will be 64/32bit, like binutils, so we'll drop sparc64-linux-* compilers/binutils. I want to ship both libstdc++ 2.8 and 2.9, our UP rpms will use 2.9, but you should be able to install e.g. netscape which relies on 2.8. If people help me, I'd like to maintain full binary compatibility with redhat 4.2/sparc (the dynamic loader UP 1.0.9 should be just fine, just we need to have more dynamic libraries). The kernel corruption bug is gone, so once I finish merging boot images, I'll put there new kernels and come out with tftp/floppy images for both to be done 1.0.10 and 1.0.9. After 1.0.10 is on ftp, I plan do test CD-ROM images (or even earlier), I have still not decided whether to put the whole 600M or whatever iso image on ftp, or put up some nice scripts somewhere, or ask somebody to press a bunch of CDs... Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc Linux version 2.1.125 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________