From owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Wed Nov 11 08:45:01 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 D7005A1FF3B for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:45:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.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 B244217B2 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:45:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id B1966A1FF39; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:45:01 +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 AFEC0A1FF38; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:45:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) Received: from vps.rulingia.com (vps.rulingia.com [103.243.244.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps.rulingia.com", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E35A17B1; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:45:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) Received: from server.rulingia.com (c220-239-242-83.belrs5.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.242.83]) by vps.rulingia.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id tAB8ieLP080021 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:44:46 +1100 (AEDT) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.rulingia.com (localhost.rulingia.com [127.0.0.1]) by server.rulingia.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id tAB8iX5V094214 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:44:34 +1100 (AEDT) (envelope-from peter@server.rulingia.com) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.rulingia.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id tAB8iWvX094213; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:44:32 +1100 (AEDT) (envelope-from peter) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:44:32 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 Message-ID: <20151111084432.GC67251@server.rulingia.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> <39947478-4710-47D8-BAB1-FC93979570B6@mail.turbofuzz.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <39947478-4710-47D8-BAB1-FC93979570B6@mail.turbofuzz.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.rulingia.com/keys/peter.pgp User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded STARTTLS authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (vps.rulingia.com [103.243.244.15]); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:44:47 +1100 (AEDT) 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: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:45:02 -0000 --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2015-Nov-10 22:55:38 -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrot= e: >Again, what=E2=80=99s the long-term goal of supporting this architecture? The things that sparc64 give us that x86 doesn't are big-endian and strict alignment. In theory, MIPS, PPC and ARM can give us both of those but I'm non sure whether we actually have any big-endian variants of them. --=20 Peter Jeremy --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJWQv/wXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFRUIyOTg2QzMwNjcxRTc0RTY1QzIyN0Ux NkE1OTdBMEU0QTIwQjM0AAoJEBall6Dkogs0Mw8P/0wJZuT/QdnrIfHfU0mdTWAg 0QdPoBQ2Amg0Sn6p0Pt2sWSY3JjKSL2HG7LhAr0v6nB41rU/v5QPSA/x5iCrjvMy z38kbkOYRH2qx4+b2d2bcDKPxXIYu5Dp55cM2BDOhkAM+Qw5BsJfN7zq48qQwndj UNtNrwUdQJK3zzLCPFXehmWTzg3B5nBRI0CDJarfI1NxVuFJR45TU+n9A6TBDxt8 PWJNNSHsQynqW+m/c+xaKUrMTaCYVI6MUVrxf7HcNm8lRhZ6f3t75phzsc5bHHGC 2859XRmbxBlF3xpSPCAuDFavD0N09rcCuxjEm8tH9gOhehltDSTrMDa4zZ8v+e5u O387oM+yivjWkr0NUYhuwklcB2CSe74gdlEka2u/HaUwSJtGP4d200B5Q3SE6zft 29Qdnlt3516K4zroHVFpoh+DEhvxdJHRH0uMigG7s159SqAALsNxw4nWhngqtSAV Gfgv1uvkKfrzdqexx7iynTY9Xtf3Yh//f7vwxfJFaPR0Altj4aa/gN9h1I32KyMW ccx4oUJwRzhgsyudNe8yEloWaowpHmIpxh3FrUBZgNV5kFAo8WaN9C8BXSL7tJML Ll9aJzFPU+TVSB6qmIKumHdiIKOUXcsiBV1DW6M6+TYUGOgmauvXrGcYqNEI757q 9faF0hkMJAZKlASalkfn =KnTq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C--