[SPARCbook] Linux on GX

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> That would be me. X runs now, and I'm working on the uctrl support, but no
> PCMCIA, or internal modem support yet. I've been checking the work into
> current 2.3 kernels, but I'm at 2.3.5 since currently 2.3 won't run on
> sparc32. I can make a kernel available somewhere if people care.

ftp://ftp.dementia.org/pub/linux/sparc/sparcbook/linux-2.3.5-sparcbook.tar.gz
is a binary kernel image of 2.3.5 plus the new Sparcbook drivers, and also
with newer parport code than what was in 2.3.5, but not what's current. It
can be untarred in / putting files in /boot and /lib/modules/2.3.5; You'll
need to symlink and/or edit /etc/silo.conf appropriately.

I'll bring a copy of the modified source tree tomorrow using sneakernet,
since it's too large to ftp over my slow pipe from home (sadly).

There's a uctrl driver in the tree, but it doesn't really do anything yet.
I was under the impression that I'd get interrupts when talking to the
uctrl, but that appears not to be the case, it seems I need to do polled
i/o.

-D