Frans Pop wrote:
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?
davem has considered combining sparc and sparc64 kernel trees like s390 and ppc did and i386/x86_64 are considering doing. This would go a long way in keeping the two architectures from diverging further and help sparc32 stability. I know it's a long shot but possible and would address the first two issues