Can't get bridging working on Sparc64 installation

[sndport]

I just installed Gentoo 1.4 on my Ultra 60 (Sparc 64) build. I updated everything so it's all current as of yesterday. I also compiled in bridging support in the kernel and can see that the bridging module loads.

I then did an emerge bridge-utils. When I try to add a bridge though I get this:
# brctl addbr br0
br_add_bridge: Operation not supported

I noticed that bridge-utils was version 0.9.3-r1. On the web site: bridge.sourceforge.net, the version was 0.9.6. So I "unemerged" the bridge-utils, get the latest version and installed it.

Now when I try to do bridging, I get:
# brctl addbr bridge0
# brctl addif bridge0 hme0
bridge bridge0 doesn't exist!
# brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
(No bridges shown)
# brctl addbr bridge0
device bridge0 already exists; can't create bridge with the same name

I have 5 hme ports on my Ultra 60 and I need bridging. I also need traffic shaping. FreeBSD panics when you turn on bridging, OpenBSD is pokey when you bridge through more than 2 ports and doesn't have sufficiently advanced traffic shaping. Linux is my last hope! Please help.

Thanks,
<> Jim

[steveb]

the bridge-utils-0.9.6.ebuild has only be enabled for the x86 (according to the ebuild). so i assume you installed that package directly from source? if you did that, try to edit the bridge-utils-0.9.6.ebuild and set KEYWORDS to support your architecture and try again. if that is failing as well, then submit an bug to https://bugs.gentoo.org
if this solved the problem, then submit aswell an entry to https://bugs.gentoo.org telling them, that you successfull compiled and installed that module on your architecture and kindly ask them to include your architecture to the ebuild

cheers

SteveB

[sndport]

Steve,

Thanks for the tip. I removed the files installed by the bridge utils that I downloaded, changed the ebuild and re-emerged as you suggested. It seems to install OK, but I still have the same problems.

As you suggested I opened bugid #40182
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40182

Is there anything else I can do to help troubleshoot in the mean time? I already submitted a request to join the osdl bridge list to mention the problem there. I'm also grabbing dev-util/strace. I hope that's the right one. I see there is also a sys-apps/strace that is masked.

Thanks again,
<> Jim

[dontremember]

Someone else asked that question on the sparclinux mailing list just a few days ago. David Miller responded:

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