On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Worsham, Michael < michael.worsham at 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 at redhat.com) David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20090330/c0bc5ed8/attachment-0007.html>