From owner-freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Thu Nov 26 16:29:29 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@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 0446CA3A453; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:29:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x22a.google.com (mail-io0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE5A11ABC; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:29:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by ioc74 with SMTP id 74so91074185ioc.2; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 08:29:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gAhubBZIhvkWwKLvF0p8AYxm+g4n+eU+8DeOISnbZ9E=; b=jTKimz12fRWQHt2lQB204uXenWQrhpqbrw+tsvUU7nxH7SxJ9csNdwV6JzuHdvXQXD p2tUHUo8rE6pf3AJfrzljC0XbOymE2SnZmJRPuv6eC/u6tk/6Luk9or5+8rrcgrePtLf u4y8bUwYKG44mNR91VTrBbGEuWH/amHuG2smC88i9a/DEKPt5UbQnXboxhQetczu4jiQ joK1hhVnB9wL7euS5fHIvFLuO/Nc2oJ7n3nL5r9LW209KKfWS4pRQhND71TP3Q3kFWYQ AUh5mnvhInqwtJTaBXwARyPIq+MOIhJnYxnr11DBd71yKG1AQunjgHKNQiA5z7rrU0Qr V+yw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.162.21 with SMTP id l21mr38620841ioe.123.1448555367981; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 08:29:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.217.196 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 08:29:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <907918196.5618077.1448540168305.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <907918196.5618077.1448540168305.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 08:29:27 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 From: Adrian Chadd To: Daniel Rudy Cc: Jukka Ukkonen , "sparc64@freebsd.org" , Anna Wilcox , Warner Losh , freebsd-arch , Sean Bruno , Marius Strobl , Jordan Hubbard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:29:29 -0000 On 26 November 2015 at 04:16, Daniel Rudy wrote: > > > On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:33 AM, Jukka Ukkonen = wrote: > > >> I'm all for keeping an architecture like sparc around, as long as >> there's active development and active users. MIPS has both. ARM has >> both. Powerpc has both. Sparc is missing some active developers, but >> it has plenty of FreeBSD users that speak up (and more users that only >> speak up privately.) So, if you want to see sparc64 support continue, >> this requires a grass roots effort to get more development happening - >> either users need to step up, or someone has to start contributing >> money. > > > I have some Sparc64 hardware myself. A Sun Fire T2000 server. Runs Open= BSD just fine. I tried to get FreeBSD 10.2 installed and the CD boot trapp= ed with illegal instruction. I don't check this email that often, but I wi= ll be willing to run some test builds to see if they will boot/install. Yeah, freebsd-10.x will likely never run on sun4v. I have a T2000 arriving soon. I'll spin up openbsd on it to see how it runs and see what we can crime to update/resurrect the sun4v support. -a > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= "