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Re: Dropping sparc32 for lenny



On Sunday 15 April 2007 23:22, Robert Reif wrote:
> Jurij Smakov wrote:
> >* Nearly complete lack of upstream support. David Miller, current
> >  upstream maintainer of sparc64 has expressed his thoughts on the
> >  topic in [0], triggering the discussion about dropping sparc32
> >  support in Aurora Linux. [1]
> >* Several serious problems, like lack of SMP support and driver
> >  failures (CD-ROMs do not work for some reason).
> >* Shrinking userbase, flaky hardware.
>
> Why can't you have official sparc32 and sparc64 ports?
> That way you can optimize sparc64 and still have sparc32 support.

Any reason why you completely ignoring the first three (and probably most 
important) reasons for dropping sparc32?

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