[parisc-linux] A500 and glibc woes

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 07:35:57PM +0100, Ingo Matthaes wrote:
> finally we've got a A500 for palinux testing. Unfortunately
> we have some problems with it.
> A 32 bit kernel complains about a very old firmware and claims
> "that machine will probably never run linux"  But in fact, it 
> will :-)
> First question: Did anyone ever succeeded with a 32bit kernel
> on that hardware ?

It's not intended to work; I doubt anyone has tried.  You should build
a 64 bit kernel.

> A 64 bit Kernel boots fine and recognizes all available hardware 
> including the additional 100BT card. But it traps with the init
> which comes with the latest nfsroot tarball. I built a new one
> from the sourcesw of debians sysvlinux-2.78 and it does not trap
> anymore, but the kernel told me about unimplemented 32 syscalls.
> At this point I tried to build a 64 bit glibc in order to get
> a crt1.o , which is needed to builf for a 64bit init.

Don't try a 64-bit userland yet.  What you need to do is implement
some of the 32-bit syscalls.

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