Summary: | Sparc Installation guide does not mention CMD64x is sometimes necessary for booting. | ||
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Product: | [OLD] Docs-user | Reporter: | Colonel Paneek <colp> |
Component: | Gentoo Linux Sparc Installation Guide | Assignee: | Docs Team <docs-team> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | sparc |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | Sparc | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Colonel Paneek
2005-08-07 00:04:59 UTC
Hrm, we don't include kernel configuration information in the install docs, do we? (In reply to comment #1) > Hrm, we don't include kernel configuration information in the install docs, do we? Yup, we do.... the Configuring the Kernel section at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=7 for example. That isn't a list of "on hardware X, you need to enable kernel option Y". To do that kind of list for SPARC we'd need a) a lot more test hardware and b) someone with several weeks of spare time... See, if we add in one comment about cmd64x, we'd need to add in a whole load more about every other bit of hardware out there. It might be worth a note in the sparc FAQ, though. I agree with Ciaran on this one. You can perfectly fetch a generic-enough kernel configuration from the livecd, and now also genkernel builds a valid kernel (i've been working with the gk devs getting an updated config in it). On the new release media this is noted at boot time too. Let's say, for example, does PPC take into consideration every Oldworld/Newworld machines out there in their handbook? Or for that matter RS/6000 (pSeries) machines? Colp: the kernel configs for the livecd are in /etc/kernels usually, just remember to enable your preferred filesystem builtin (it's M on the current one, Y on the soon-to-be-released one). Oh, and BTW, 2.6 kernels aren't considered stable on SPARC yet. You shouldn't have issues on a U10 with some of them - but then some things like onboard sound won't work. One of the things missing is a Kconfig rework upstream so that the defconfig is sane (which is exactly your problem), among SMP problems and others. |