From owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Mon Oct 9 21:32:56 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB5FE3CA75 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:32:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lidl@pix.net) Received: from hydra.pix.net (hydra.pix.net [IPv6:2001:470:e254::4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.pix.net", Issuer "Pix.Com Technologies LLC CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BA4480EA0 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:32:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lidl@pix.net) Received: from torb.pix.net (torb.pix.net [192.168.16.32]) (authenticated bits=0) by hydra.pix.net (8.16.0.19/8.15.2) with ESMTPA id v99LWsQn034868; Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:32:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lidl@pix.net) Subject: Re: future of sparc64 To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org References: <20171005234149.GE8557@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <59D6CA6C.1040502@Wilcox-Tech.com> <20171007174124.GA20810@lonesome.com> From: Kurt Lidl Message-ID: Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:32:54 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171007174124.GA20810@lonesome.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:32:56 -0000 On 10/7/17 1:41 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 07:12:28PM -0500, A. Wilcox wrote: >> That doesn't change the fact that sparc64 still exists, and with Oracle >> laying off Solaris as well, FreeBSD becomes a "way out" for people >> heavily invested (DC full of sparc64 gear, or such). > > I have thought for some time that we've been a "way out" for Solaris > sites wanting to keep ZFS and not deal with licensing issues, and have > worked to keep sparc64 alive. (AFAIK FreeBSD is the only open source > sparc64/zfs solution?) > > But here's the current problem. > > All gccs > 4.9 fail to build. Looking at the logs AFAICT the failure > is a floating-point exception as soon as the first built binary is run > during the internal testing. I built gcc 6.0.4 (natively) on a sparc64 stable/11 a week ago. I built the stable/11 kernel with that compiler (it required a one-line change to the kernel sources), and have been running that on my sparc64 stable/11 gateway since I got it compiled. The pkg'd binary for gcc 6.0.4 is here: http://pkg.pix.net/FreeBSD:11:sparc64/gcc6-6.4.0_1.txz -Kurt