Re: [PATCH 0/3] sparc32: allow a kernel loaded away from the start of RAM

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Magnus,

On Fri, 2026-08-14 at 12:52 +0200, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
> Many years ago I ran Linux on my SPARCstation hardware and tried to keep
> up with new releases, but somewhere around 3.x I hit a wall, sooner for
> SMP builds since they are larger. As the kernel grew it simply became too
> big for SILO to load. On this machine the last one that fit was 2.6.32,
> at 2598956 bytes against a 2605056 byte window: six kilobytes to spare.
> 3.12 was 184KB over. Fixing it turned out to need more than SILO changes,
> the kernel side needed work too, and I never got around to giving it
> serious thought. I recently dusted off my old SPARCs and picked the
> journey back up.

Awesome, thanks a lot for working on this!

Do you know whether GRUB would work on these machines as well or is there
anything that blocks the use on 32-bit machines. I'm currently not sure
whether there was any show-stopper.

Adrian

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