[Asterisk-Dev] Zaptel on SPARC

[dking at pimpsoft.com]

That would confirm my earlier posts on the lists perfectly!

My current biggest problem is I am stuck using debian-sparc and the 
gcc for debian is always broken; For some stupid moronic reason they 
compile it for the 'linux-sparc' host instead of the 'sparc64-linux' 
they should, breaking its ability to compile 64bit binaries or even 
compile a kernel unless I want to use egcs64 and do everything the 
hard way. To make it worse they don't even provide for if someone 
wants that optional functionality and debian breaks if you try to 
install a newer gcc by hand.. Lucky for me I knew I was reloading 
soon.

A good example of a good sparc64 friendly ./configure line for gcc 
would be something like:

./configure --host=sparc64-linux -v --enable-languages=c,c++ --
prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-shared --with-system-
zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --
enable-clocale=gnu --with-cpu=ultrasparc

There is no technical or logistical reason to have ANYTHING running 
on a sparc ultra cpu compiled to anything else then at least version 
8 if not version 9 of the instruction set. I have no [expletive] clue 
why the [expletive] these idiots don't at least provide compatible 
packages if they are going to break a install by making the default 
version 7 or even 6 when the instruction set is so broken compared 
the instruction set a Sparc Ultra CPU can handle.

Either way its nice to know \the problem is the idiots making the gcc 
and 'as' packages and not asterisk. I hope the debian team finds this 
and [expletive] there pants. Heck I may lead them to it for there 
stupidity and the trouble it caused.

So why are the kernel modules for zaptel not already in the kernel 
source tree? It seems to me that they would be best if placed there.

And remember that many kernels support both 32 and 64 bit modules. 
It's just a matter of adding the support at compile time.



On 4 Oct 2004 at 9:45, G. Phileomonto wrote:

> i got zaptel compiled now...it took a whole lot of hacking it out
> 
> the problem was the kernel is compiled as 64bit but userspace is 32bit 
> so just running make was
> trying to compile the zaptel drivers as 32bit which isnt compatible with 
> the 64bit kernel...my solution
>  was to just throw the drivers i need into the kernel tree and hack the 
> makefiles to compile it...after a
> few hours i finally got the drivers compiled...
> however asterisk fails when trying to load the zap modules...so im 
> thinking that it prolly needs to be
> compiled full 64 bit also...ill look into making a full kernel patch for 
> the zap drivers when i have time
> that would even give you the option of compiling it into the kernel and 
> should work on x86 also.
> 
> --
> G. Phileomonto
> 
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