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Re: Sparc status ?



On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:44:16 +0200, Sébastien Bernard wrote:

> Le 18/04/2014 06:56, Joost van Baal-Ilić a écrit :
> >I'd guess skilled hacker time is more needed than hardware. Reading
> >https://release.debian.org/jessie/arch_qualify.html , it seems major
> >blocking issues are: "Using gcc-4.6 as default compiler" and "Have to run
> >oldstable kernels". Related to this: only 1 porter, only partial upstream
> >support. Bye, Joost - who'd _love_ to have a fully supported Debian on
> >sparc
> So, if I have understood correctly, the main problem is that 32bit
> compilation is not supported in the current releases of gcc ?

No, that is not accurate.  The main reason is that there are a number of
issues with the sparc port currently that are not being addressed
because apparently nobody is interested enough in the sparc port to fix
the issues.

> Going to 64bit userland is a huge leap forward.
> For the second one, I wonder. I've been able to run 3.13 kernel on my V240
> hardware and I thing it's recent enough.
> I have no clue why is it marked oldkernel something related to the buildd ?
> 
The debian.org sparc machines do not work reliably with recent kernels.
That is not sustainable.

Cheers,
Julien

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