[PlanetCCRMA] SPARC

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 00:38, Justin H Haynes wrote:
> Please excuse me if I missed it in the archives or elsewhere, but has 
> anyone here tried planetCCRMA on SPARC hardware?

Not that I know of...

> I have access to an UltraSPARC, and I thought if I attached an USB 
> soundcard, that things might be pretty standard (theoretically).  Any 
> thoughts?

Well, you can try :-)

> I'm guessing the best approach is to use Aurora SPARC LINUX for 
> consistancy, since it is based on RedHat linux 7.3.  Then I could use 
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/redhat/linux/planetccrma/all/en/os/SRPMS/
> and start with the kernel and alsa goodies.

It would be doable but it is difficult to predict where are you going to
hit problems. Any particular reason you want to do this? Even if it were
to be smooth sailing it is a lot of work...

-- Fernando