Re: Upcoming changes to supported architectures
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:59:24PM +1000, Joshua Cummings wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 11:32 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:25:38AM +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > So the current architectures I see wishlist bugs for on ftp.d.o are s390x,
> > > sh[34]{,eb}, netbsd-i386, and kfreebsd-{i386,amd64}.
> > >
> > > Which of these are currently in a more releasable state than hurd-i386?
> >
> > kfreebsd has a fully working toolchain, and has a very good linux
> > emulation layer which (modulo a relibtoolization for the harder cases)
> > theorically allow an excellent archive coverage. Additionnally, having
> > kfreebsd brings ZFS to Debian FWIW.
> >
>
> Unfortunately, ZFS is not currently available in GNU/kFreeBSD, but,
> depending on licensing issues, could possibly be supported eventually.
We almost have ZFS support, I have all the needed patches on my laptop,
I just need to polish them and do the upload... And find time for that.
As for the licensing issues, we disable all GPL drivers on the flavour
that has ZFS enabled.
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