Re: Seems I have bad timing with Debian on SPARC.
* Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> [131005 12:38]:
> That's the theory. In reality, maintainers of large and complex software
> projects (like mozilla/firefox) do not really care about fringe
> architectures, and I don't see why this situation would improve with time.
Large and complex software has many bugs so maintainers will not care
for all of them equally. Having people care for them because the hit
them on their architecture causes them to be fixed before they come back
to bite everyone.
> A pragmatic (but less conceptually-correct) approach would be to convince
> sparc kernel maintainers to introduce unaligned memory access handling for
> userspace programs.
For me that would make sparc totally uninteresting. Without the ability
to find bugs (which sparc was always very good at, even though alignment
was even stricter on hppa), sparc would just be another architecture
hardly worth supporting at all, especially as the hardware is no more
found as commonly as in former times and there is no longer that much a
difference in quality so that using has become more a liability than
a stability boost.
Bernhard R. Link
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