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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