[Please don't CC me; I'm subscribed. M-F-T set appropriately.] On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:26:19AM +0100, Martin wrote: > IIRC support was dropped because no one wanted to maintain them. At one > point there was an effort to provide packages for them; this may still > exist. If not, if the original poster wanted to set these machines up > and work on supporting them again I'm sure there would be greatful > users. I suspect it wouldn't be too much effort, esp. for the SPARC V8 > based machines. This is true; if somebody was willing to maintain support for 32-bit SPARC machines, it is possible (although unlikely) that support might be restored. I think there would need to be more than just testers, though; somebody would need to support the kernel. For example, I fix alignment bugs (for SPARC) on occasion, but I'm hardly the person you want to maintain the SPARC/UltraSPARC kernel. I don't want to dissuade people from working on the port, but I don't want to give people false hope either. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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