I grabbed the standard kernel tarball from ftp.kernel.org or some mirror of it, and it doesn\t compile on the Sparc, what gives?
• (DSM) Often the Sparc port diverges due to the sheer high rate of changes which occur to that port. Also changes can happen to major interfaces in the kernel and the Sparc port is not updated at the same time. Eventually the Sparc port maintainers do try to merge all of their work into the standard tree, and at which time it will compile. In any event, trees which will compile just fine are available via two mechanisms, the vger CVS tree (accessible via read-only anonymous CVS) and pre made tarballs of known working stable or test kernel trees. Check: • ftp://vger.kernel.org/pub/linux/README.CVS and • ftp://vger.kernel.org/pub/linux/Sparc/kernel/v2.
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