From owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Tue Nov 10 17:54:47 2015 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 12964A2CD84 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:54:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbruno@freebsd.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED9EA1D54 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:54:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbruno@freebsd.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id ED1BFA2CD82; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:54:46 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: 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 EC8C0A2CD81; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:54:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbruno@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.ignoranthack.me (ignoranthack.me [199.102.79.106]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF07D1D53; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:54:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sbruno@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.200.208] (unknown [50.136.155.142]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: sbruno@ignoranthack.me) by mail.ignoranthack.me (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6520E193657; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 To: Anna Wilcox , Marius Strobl 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> Cc: freebsd-arch , sparc64@freebsd.org From: Sean Bruno Message-ID: <56422F5F.3090407@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:54:39 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56417100.5050600@Wilcox-Tech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:54:47 -0000 -----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-----