SPARC support

Matthias Klose doko at ubuntu.com
Fri Jun 11 07:28:13 PDT 2010


just check it, you have access to a sparc box running sparc-linux and 
sparc64-linux ;-)

   Matthias

On 11.06.2010 16:13, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> Does anyone know if SPARC on GNU/Linux support currently works in
> IcedTea, or for which releases it did work?
>
> We have some local RPM patches for it that change the include directives:
>
> -#include<asm-sparc/traps.h>
> +#include<asm/traps.h>
>
> and replacing the current IcedTea fix:
>
> -+#if defined(__sparc__)&&  defined(__arch64__)
> -+# include<asm-sparc/traps.h>
> -+#else
> -+# include<asm/traps.h>
> -+#endif
>
> I seem to remember something about sparc and sparc64 support being
> merged together in the kernel, which is what this would suggest.  I'm
> trying to work out if it's worth bringing over these patches.
>
> Thanks,




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