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linuxbum
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:17 pm    Post subject: Trying to convert from 2.4.29 to 2.6 kernel(postponed) Reply with quote

Following the documents for 2.6 migration and have question on 2.6 kernel sources.
Which sources for sparc are 2.6? Found other threads that say gentoo-sources are the 2.6 for all ?


Or has the 2.6 kernel still not stable for SPARC ultra 1 creator?

Bryan


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=gentoo-sources
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ph03n1x
This chart leads me to believe that 2.6 is not available for SPARC.
I know weeve has it running.
This is not a production box just my desktop machine. myDual X86 system runs great on the 2.6 kernel.

So if anybody else can say they have migrated from 2.4 to 2.6 what other steps are used?
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you have a look at the chart again you can see that 2.6.13 should be available with ~sparc for testing. That should be stable enough to use it on your desktop system. But then on the other hand I don't have any sparc experience myself.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kernel-2.6.x is generally available for testing on sparc, but it is not stable on sparc because it is known to fail on some systems. In particular, it is not yet recommended for U1/U2 systems because of random hard lockups. For my own testing and use, I generally use vanilla sources (even though they have no sparc keyword at all right now). Kernel-2.6.14 seems to be stable generally, but not on U1/U2. With a U1-Creator system, you might or not have good results.

Sorry I can't be more definite. We don't know what the problem is yet.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ferris,
Thanks for the reply and information I will wait for awhile longer.
I'll go to latest 2.4 kernel.


I really don't want the hard lockups on the U1..

Bryan
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