From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sean Callanan Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:39:12 +0000 Subject: Lots of 64-bit success! Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Dear mailing list: I would like to report that with the help of many people on this list (Ben Collins, Jakub Jelinek, and others - thank you!) I have managed to get a LinuxFromScratch system working on an UltraSparc computer, with a hybrid 32-bit/64-bit userland which is so complete that I can compile Emacs and the XFree86 libraries for sparc64 with no more difficulty than for sparc. I also have X 4.1.0 working on my Ultra 5, thanks again to Ben Collins for pointing to Dave S. Miller's patch. The combination of software I used to do this was: - GCC 3.0.3 unpatched - first 32-bit native, then 32->64 cross, then 64-bit native - Binutils 2.11.2 unpatched - same as above - glibc 2.2.4 unpatched I'm also using devfs for my /dev tree, which has so far worked wonderfully (I use the /dev/disk/... entries in my fstab, and use /dev/misc/sunmouse for X). Would there be any interest in my tar-ing everything up and putting it on an ISO for people who want to experiment with a 64-bit userland? Thanks again for all the help, everybody. Sincerely, Sean Callanan -- "The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -- Calvin (www.calvinandhobbes.com)