Re: [RFC PATCH 0/13] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d
- To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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- Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/13] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d
- From: Romain Dolbeau <romain@dolbeau.org>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 08:43:59 +0100
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Le sam. 19 déc. 2020 à 22:41, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> a écrit :
> Another said that it would be a shame to sunset sun4m and sun4d because
> there are so many machines around, and netbsd is also active on the
> sparc32 area.
Yes, those were plentiful back in the day and there's still quite a few around.
> The second mail also re-reminded me of an interesting project
> implementing SPARC V8 and the sun4m platform in VHDL.
There's also new hardware being developed for SBus systems :-)
<https://github.com/rdolbeau/SBusFPGA>
(disclaimer: work-in-progress and shameless self-promotion here!).
If there's still a distribution willing to build for Sparc v8, then I
believe the kernel
should try to keep support of the relevant machine architectures if at all
possible...
Cordially,
--
Romain Dolbeau
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