Package: base-installer Version: 1.17 Severity: normal According to Jurij Smakov, sparc32 kernels are not usable on a sparc64. <quote> > I'm fairly sure that any sparc32 kernel will not work on sparc64 (I've > installed one once accidentally on my Ultra, and it didn't work). > sparc64-smp kernels should be fine on UP, as far as I know. And yes, > sparc32-smp is not useable at the moment. </quote>
I think one reason is that sparc32 kernels are configured without PCI support and sparc64 machines need that. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-13.0501-1 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
