Fri Mar 31 23:33:41 CST 2006, jason kernels/*: Upgraded to 2.4.33pre2 This fixes a few small compilation problems we've needed patches for. a/coreutils-5.2.1-sparc-0a.tgz: Rebuilt to reenable "obsolete" head and tail functionality. One-off patches in other packages to be removed as they are rebuilt. a/glibc-solibs-2.3.6-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. a/glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.6-noarch-0.tgz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-sun4cdm-2.4.33pre2-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-sun4dm_smp-2.4.33pre2-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. a/kernel-modules-sun4u-2.4.33pre2-sparc64-0.tgz: Upgraded. a/kernel-sun4cdm-2.4.33pre2-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. a/kernel-sun4dm_smp-2.4.33pre2-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. a/kernel-sun4u-2.4.33pre2-sparc64-0.tgz: Upgraded. d/binutils-2.16.91.0.3-sparc-0.tgz: Reverted to 2.16.91.0.3. It seems anything newer has trouble assembling GlibC. See CANT-BUILD-GLIBC.txt for details. d/gcc-3.4.6-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded to 3.4.6. d/gcc-g++-3.4.6-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. d/gcc-g77-3.4.6-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. d/gcc-java-3.4.6-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. d/gcc-objc-3.4.6-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. d/gcc-gnat-3.4.5-sparc-0.tgz: Removed. Ada support for SPARC doesn't exist in the 3.x series of GCC. d/kernel-headers-2.4.33pre2-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. k/kernel-source-2.4.33pre2-noarch-0.tgz: Upgraded. l/glibc-2.3.6-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded to 2.3.6. Built against Linux 2.4.33pre2 using GCC 3.4.6. l/glibc-i18n-2.3.6-noarch-0.tgz: Upgraded. l/glibc-profile-2.3.6-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. sparc/afbinit-1.0_1.1-sparcv9-0.tgz: Upgraded to Debian's 1.1 patch. sparc/gcc64-3.4.6-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded. testing/silo/silo-1.4.11-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded to 1.4.11. This release includes preliminary support for Sun's new T1 (Niagara) chips, also known as sun4v. At this point, you'll still need a cutting edge kernel to boot. Take a look at DaveM's 2.6.16-sparc branch, or 2.6.17 mainline. This is in testing because the OS auto-load timeout seems to be broken on my Ultra 10. +--------------------------+ Thu Jan 19 00:26:02 CST 2006, jason kernels/*: Upgraded to 2.4.33pre1 I debated on whether or not to use a preview kernel. I decided to "go for it" for a few reasons. Firstly, the 2.4 series is very stable now that development is maintenance-only. That also means a very long release cycle, unfortunately. Second, David Miller committed a Spitfire fixup for Ultras in -pre1, and I'd like to put that to use. We'll see if this will be in our final release or not. a/kernel-sun4*-2.4.33pre1-sparc*-0.tgz: Added. a/kernel-modules-sun4*-2.4.33pre1-sparc*-0.tgz: Upgraded to 2.4.33pre1 d/binutils-2.16.91.0.5-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded to 2.16.91.0.5 Also upgraded ksymoops to 2.4.11 d/gcc*-3.4.5-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded to 3.4.5 d/kernel-headers-2.4.33pre1-sparc-0: Upgraded to 2.4.33pre1 d/perl-5.8.6-sparc-0a.tgz: Rebuilt with GCC 3.4 d/pmake-2.1.35-sparc-0.tgz: Patched to build with GCC 3.4 extra/openssl-0.9.7e-sparcv8-0.tgz: Built shared libraries. extra/openssl-0.9.7e-sparcv9-0.tgz: Built shared libraries. extra/openssl-solibs-0.9.7e-sparcv8-0.tgz: Built shared libraries. extra/openssl-solibs-0.9.7e-sparcv9-0.tgz: Built shared libraries. sparc/gcc64-3.4.5-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded to 3.4.5 sparc/silo-1.4.10-sparc-0.tgz: Upgraded to 1.4.10 This replaces the broken 1.4.9 package from earlier. +--------------------------+ Fri Dec 16 03:37:07 CET 2005, shasta ap/ash-0.4.0-sparc-0.tgz: Added ash. ap/ispell-3.2.06-sparc-0.tgz: Added ispell. d/perl-5.8.6-sparc-0.tgz: Fixed perl package. Still to be recompiled with GCC 3.4. d/pmake-2.1.35-sparc-0.tgz: Added pmake. Be aware that it's compiled with GCC 3.3.4, because it is incompatible with GCC 3.4.x.