On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Blars Blarson wrote:
As far as I understand, the main problems with sparc are not
availability of hardware.
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There have been kernel porting issues, and I beleive additional help
could be used there.
Debian-installer could use more testing, especially on newer systems.
USB keyboards and other hardware not in 5-year old workstations are
areas that most need testing.
sun4c/sun4d are not being supported in sarge, (at least for new
installs) and it looks like sun4m (the last sparc32) will not be in
etch even if sparc is a release architecture.
While I would not mind having a faster machine available for building
testing/debugging kernels, I agree with Blars that the lack of hardware
may hardly be considered a bottleneck. Comments about other points:
* Kernel situation seems to be more or less ok at the moment. Sparc
kernel images are built from the common kernel-source, and all the
patches we produce get promptly accepted upstream in most cases (thanks
to Dave Miller and William Lee Irwin III for doing a good job!). It
would be nice if people would be more active in testing new kernel - see
the wiki page at [0] on how to help.