Re: list of active sparc port maintainers
Hi,
Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> writes:
> > Debian's organizational structure page[1] still lists Jurij Smakov as
> > (the only) sparc porter. But he resigned a few months ago[2].
> >
> > [1] <http://www.debian.org/intro/organization>
> > [2] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2013/05/msg00008.html>
> >
> > Could you please get the list updated with people still interested?
>
> I didn't see any reply, so I'm wondering if there are still active
> people?
I still have several Sparcs -- mostly Ultra 5 and 10, and two
third-party Sparcs, both manufactured by Tritec in Mainz, Germany
IIRC, but one of them no more runs Linux as it's a 32-bit Sparc...
I do run one UltraSparc 5 in production on Wheezy (it's a time server
running with Squeeze kernel, c.f.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2013/07/msg00005.html).
I occassionally start up two other Sparcs with mostly Sid. (But the
last time was quite a while ago.)
Last bigger action on Sparc was that I've debugged multiple issues of
grub2 on Sparc together with grub2 upstream locally at my home.
I also planned to play around with the sparc64 port, but didn't get
far with it. (Actually I was slightly frustrated when I noticed that
Linux on Sparc seems to have no support for software RAID.)
So far I've read debian-sparc@l.d.o only occassionally because it's
quite low-traffic. (That's also why I'm replying just now.) I guess I
need to keep some eye on it more often.
I'm currently thinking about adopting SILO, but I fear my
(arch-specific) C knowledge is not deep enough for that -- despite
Jurij wrote that the main point is having access to a Sparc and that
part is given for me.
Regards, Axel
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