From owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Tue Nov 10 22:10:51 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 7E255A2CAFB for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:10:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacob.ritorto@gmail.com) 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 5D4BE1AB2 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:10:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacob.ritorto@gmail.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 5B8CAA2CAF9; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:10:51 +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 5AF6CA2CAF8; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:10:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacob.ritorto@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x231.google.com (mail-wm0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::231]) (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 E946E1AAF; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:10:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacob.ritorto@gmail.com) Received: by wmec201 with SMTP id c201so22450842wme.1; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:10:48 -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 :content-type; bh=bFuTZ4+mFaK9Xdo66PCw7SfqoHSp46JAEh7ypV3Zhw0=; b=yp1obvlBXKfkzOuXNABIvliOltSiNWTFthN+1Kk0N1cd+lc97ocfcP7Zc9SvmT4Hxi GQHdo+HLRkn6Kyw4rEePPJ9Q2tB/fbCaOi8bJBX4ByMCL7cuPxxdEv1Gotea93iJ45oq pcnT/Ay0PYb28UyYVSmOFrwFLB4YRr+uDrMekX/CrFFcCFpkJFyMaAjhY4RDv2EwxA/U mRN8prxKZmNn122e8kNMJzpSW3CUbAsJnWjPmF56YKUe/D+cSQ0raFzxFSzd5rFRYqYt xsNTMhWss0uXO4LjcptIhigZpBYrO2uxTUYZUSJgHx2lqFHAq841dzjkZb4gfGHEDqLx /g8g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.159.100 with SMTP id xb4mr6320119wjb.136.1447193448448; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.27.14.98 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:10:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <56422F5F.3090407@freebsd.org> 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> <56422F5F.3090407@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:10:48 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 From: Jacob Ritorto To: "freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org" , freebsd-arch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 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 22:10:51 -0000 Just to put it out there, I looked at FreeBSD on SPARC sometime last year and found it to be working but lacking current development libs, graphics and desktop stuff so badly that it was essentially unusable, so I reverted to an Illumos-based distro. Sorry. If there's call for, desire and hope of making modern FreeBSD plus most ports work _well_ on this platform, then I'm all in to help. I have lots of sparc64 machines: ultra 1,2,5, sunblade 150 and 2000, netra 1 and some t-1000/2000 boxes, too (and quite a load of 32-bit sparc machines, come to think of it). Would like to help with the effort if you can find a use for me. I've not done much sparc assembly but have done some c and could certainly help to test stuff. Familiar with git, svn, etc. and building software, bug filing, etc.. thx jake On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Sean Bruno wrote: > -----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. > >