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Date:      Sun, 8 Nov 2015 07:14:04 -0900
From:      Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>
To:        Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, sbruno@freebsd.org, sparc64@freebsd.org,  freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
Message-ID:  <CA%2BE3k91LLtcoF5wpdZfYPgx4MWpSxsHUivJKeEvR5TvZ%2BcSy7g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151108155501.GA1901@alchemy.franken.de>
References:  <563A5893.1030607@freebsd.org> <2AAC0EF3-528B-476F-BA9C-CDC3004465D0@bsdimp.com> <20151108155501.GA1901@alchemy.franken.de>

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On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> wrote:
> Over time, linimon@ and me independently tried to get more sparc64
> machines there but failed. As far as I was involved the goal was to
> get hardware being offered for donation in the US there but it
> turned out that's it's just impossible to coordinate that from over
> here. However, I've been told that the primary reason for getting rid
> of the collocation at Yahoo is to improve the situation with on-site
> maintenance. So getting sparc64 hosts set up it the project cluster
> may actually be feasible now. I probably should check with glen@.

Take heart, Marius - sparc64 is wanted. I still have this logo on my Ultra 30:

http://www.alaska.net/~royce/gfx/the-SPARC-to-serve.jpg

If hardware is needed, I would donate to support this.

Royce



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