Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:54:39 -0800 From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org> To: Anna Wilcox <AWilcox@Wilcox-Tech.com>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 Message-ID: <56422F5F.3090407@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <56417100.5050600@Wilcox-Tech.com> References: <563A5893.1030607@freebsd.org> <2AAC0EF3-528B-476F-BA9C-CDC3004465D0@bsdimp.com> <20151108155501.GA1901@alchemy.franken.de> <563F8385.3090603@freebsd.org> <56417100.5050600@Wilcox-Tech.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 > Just as a further note, I had experimented in January of this year > with making a binary pkg mirror for sun4u using my (comparatively > sad) Ultra 60 and a cross-build system. Installation was fairly > straightforward but I was having issues bringing up Clang and was > having many issues trying to build "modern" packages using GCC > 4.2.1. > > See my blog for some insight: > http://blog.foxkit.us/search/label/sparc > > Unfortunately, truth be told, I gave up after the Freenode IRC > channel gave me a whole heap of abuse and name-calling for trying > to ask for any support with the sparc64 port. I couldn't find the > documentation I needed to keep going and nobody wanted to help. If > there are others working on this and I am not alone after all, I > will gladly pull the Ultra 60 back on to my desk and do what I can > to help out. GCC 4.8 or 4.9 would be a huge, huge, huge > improvement in particular. > > --arw > > > Efnet is where a lot of freebsd folks hang out that actually want to *fix* things. If you are looking for us, #bsdmips, #bsdports are where I (sbruno) can be found. sean -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJWQi9cXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRCQUFENDYzMkU3MTIxREU4RDIwOTk3REQx MjAxRUZDQTFFNzI3RTY0AAoJEBIB78oecn5kc6UIAIZvV1tXkDbOLxyEKvF5dWhL pWDoBV2WOGPaEjMaVj7u285JMCKCl8CF9YGj/qDPOPG1UZVdDAWBiCuOJJXinDSq tVYZbmlR661zkCJkICLzX1Fty6QcHvdmzo1qzoeDbVw/WYQVwlrVltp+YdVlXxuL MMSxjdFRMqxn/6D3k1mtW6M/M47Wnkh/Z3kNPLsFySHBWfhBqvMb8IEyU3lJLK1R HHjmOOuL0xYJY4epTcTH+7M2kVUD7a1NZtr/F/Aiu5sBVcQqu3rmoIh4IwtRWNXq mQmJkXCvTgMKpKeoRMDNJ97wG298lPz0uYiR1Tw33fdYkgQFIh2/c08SF5QtSbU= =KxUd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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