On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:19:52 +0200 stappers@xxxxxxxxxxx (Geert Stappers) wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 03:29:08PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 08:09:56AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:30:11PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > > Hello, > <snip/> > > > > My questions are: > > > > > > > > * Are there succesfull reported sparc64 systems doing bridging? > sparc64 seems indeed be some what special on the bridging aspect ... > > > > > * What should I do to get that sparc64 acting as a bridge? > > > A recompile with gcc-2.95 did not show improvement. > > AFAICT it is brctl 1.0.4 that needs a 2.6 kernel. > > Installing kernel 2.6.8 allowed me to do bridging on a sparc64 Yes, the cross 32/64 bit environment is not supported on 2.4. In order to get size independence it meant changing the API to use sysfs which is not available on 2.4
