Re: Bug#745938: decide on the future of sparc in unstable

[Patrick Baggett <baggett.patrick@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org> wrote:

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:36:31 +0200, Joël BERTRAND wrote:
>       sun4u : kernel is stable until 2.6.32. [...]
>
>       sun4v : I have several T1000 for a long time. I haven't seen any stable
> kernel on these servers.

Maybe someone could think about a k*bsd-sparc port ;)

Generally speaking, I think if you're just going for NTP server, this is fine.

However, I like pushing the hardware combinations to weird extremes. I like putting hardware into non-x86 machines and seeing where the drivers succeed and fail. My favorite example is getting Mesa3D to function. This is basically a no-go on most of the *BSDs because they just don't have the driver support. If someone can demonstrate a *BSD/sparc running X and accelerated OpenGL using any non-Sun GPU made from 2000 forward, I might consider using a *BSD kernel, but so far, it seems all the development for FOSS GPU drivers is on Linux.