Below is a list of changes specifics for this architecture made since the previous release of the book. For general changes see Master Changelog,
Changelog Entries:
February 5, 2009
[Jim] - Added patch to kbd to fix missing kbio header.
January 7, 2009
[Jim] - Updated to Silo 1.4.14.
August 24, 2008
[jciccone] - Added Ratrophy's memcpy patch to inetutils to resolve the Bus Error problem with ping on sparc64.
June 02, 2008
[ken] - create libstdc++.so symlinks in /usr/lib64 so that the glibc and ld tests all link, and delete them safely before installing binutils.
[ken] - ensure binutils does not install libiberty.a into /usr/lib64.
February 3, 2008
[jciccone] - Added a patch to the kernel that includes spitfire.h in elf.h outside of kernel space. This fixed a compilation error with elftoaout.
November 2, 2006
[jim] - Updated Silo for 2.6.18.1 headers.
October 24, 2006
[jim] - Fixed glibc in Sparc builds, add patch to fix missing symbols.
September 11, 2006
[jim] - Updated to Silo 1.4.13.
August 28, 2006
[jim] - Changelog restarted, see the 1.0.0 book for the old changelog.