ok. I'll do it on FreeBSD after getting the appropriate sources. This will
take a bit of time however. I'll probably get back to you guys later this
week.

thanks for all the help so far.

- Mark

> 
>    Is it possible to build on a FreeBSD/i386 box or under Slowaris?
>    
>    I can probably set up a NetBSD/i386 box if that helps.
>    
>    Shall I just wait for your binary to download?
> 
> 
> you can do this by running
> 
> 	.../netbsd-current/src/gnu/dist/toolchain/configure --target=sparc64-netbsd
> 
> and using the compiler it will build.  the GCC build will fail to build
> libgcc as certain header files are missing, but once you've gotten to
> that point, everything needed for kernel compiles are done.  this should
> work on any of the above platforms.  (you can avoid the header file problem
> by installing netbsd /usr/include in $prefix/sparc64-netbsd/sys-include.)
> 
> 
> my initial GENERIC kernel paniced after network configuration and i am
> waiting for a complete rebuild right now.  my patch does work with the
> `POWEROFSEVEN' kernel, but that's pretty ultra5 hard coded.
> 
> 
> .mrg.