Re: sparc sun4c support - time to drop it?

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On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 05:01:20AM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote:
> On Sat, 5 May 2012, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
>> Is anyone having any sun4c boxes alive and running Linux?
>
> I have not had much time to do any more work on Linux + sun4c but I do  
> have a sun4c box waiting for a new external disk to put Linux on (the 
> last one stopped, I thing due to a ded PSU).

I have come a long way using tftpboot.img and a ram-dsik.
This allows me to keep Solaris on the disk, and booting
Linux. It is a bit slow as I always fetch the full kernel via the
network but this is acceptable.

I hacked busybox to support sparc32 - patches are upstream.

	Sam
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