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=3061See 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.