Re: sparc qualification for Wheezy
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 01:19:48PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>> Comments on / additions and corrections to the content of
>> http://release.debian.org/wheezy/arch_qualify.html would be appreciated,
>> as would any other information you think is relevant to helping us
>> determine sparc's status for the release.
>
> I see the number of registered sparc porters has dropped since the last time
> around and we're now in the red, but I don't think that's because of an
> actual change, rather we must have done different accounting.
>
> upstream and downstream, the situation seems unchanged - stuff is generally
> working fine, I don't see a particular reason to avoid releasing sparc
> wheezy compared to sparc squeeze.
And if debian-sparc would include the virtio drivers, it might even
get more porters,
as they would be able to develop stuff and do some initial testing
without having
an access to sun4u hardware. [1] ;-)
1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2012/05/msg00014.html
> We should probably note that upstream sparc32 is actually fairly revived
> with LEON these days, so that one bit of real regression we had a few years
> earlier might actually get fixed :)
>
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Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko
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