From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 20:04:50 +0000 Subject: Re: Lots of 64-bit success! Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Hello Sean , You have one YES vote !-) . Tia , JimL On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Sean Callanan wrote: > 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) > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+