> The only recent change prior the move to assembly was on 2.25 where we had > to disable the stack protector. For 2.31 release, for instance, I used the > gcc 7.5.0 since it didn't trigger this issue. I recently tried rebuilding 2.29 on Gentoo with 9.2 and things started breaking, may that still be an issue? > > I know that there have been some stability issues with the Linux kernel on > > SPARC with older hardware like the UltraSPARC IIIi. The T5120 we have and > > newer machines seem to run relatively fine with a 64-bit userland. > > Not only stability issues, but I noticed that kernel developers had > fixed a SysV IPC kernel issue on 32-bits kernels that has been > lingering for years. So I am not sure how well maintained is > 32-bit sparc is in general. This seems generally be an option, but noone has a clue of LDOM at the moment. You way come to #gentoo-sparc on Freenode if you want to give a helping hand. > [1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.31 That only lists known test failures regarding sparc? Eike
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