On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Worsham, Michael < michael.worsham@morris.com> wrote:
This report/issue is geared to those attempting to find a CentOS/RH for Sparc.
I have recently installed the Sparc Beta EL5 build. I have a pair of Ultra80's to play with here...Granted Im new to the Sparc side but so far its not too much different from x86 just minor differences/quirks with a few SRPMS .
Currently, there is a slowdown to the development of CentOS for the Sparc platform. The current tftp64.img build for CentOS on Sparc does not have support for the low-cost Netra and Sunfire 1U servers, thus hinders any chance of this distro release being used for cheap hardware re-provisioning needs (i.e. basic web servers, database servers, etc).
I would like to contribute to this development of CentOS for Sparc. I asked last week looking for SRPMS to the beta build at http://sparc.centos.org/os/ . Ive had luck using the --changelog and finding the changes off the corona aurora builds or the SPARC Fedora Builds.
Do you know what support is missing? Just curious.
Im guessing this is you http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3061 See below....
Upon doing a bit of in-depth research, I did discover that Ubuntu did release a Sparc build under their v7.10 distro, which supports many older as well as new Sparc-based platforms including the low-cost Netra and Sunfire 1U servers. These special servers require the 'eri' driver commonly called the SunGEM driver.
Im wondering if there is some other issue.. I see the sungem is included in EL5. This is the default sparc64 kernel..
ls -la /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.c5sparc/kernel/drivers/net/sungem* -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 48576 Mar 10 2008 /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.c5sparc/kernel/drivers/net/sungem.ko -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 20888 Mar 10 2008 /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.c5sparc/kernel/drivers/net/sungem_phy.ko
And this is driver on the bootiso....
strings sungem.ko | egrep "sungem.c|vermagic" drivers/net/sungem.c vermagic=2.6.18-53.c5sparc SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1 sungem.c:v0.98 8/24/03 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
David