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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:35:37 -0800
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
Message-ID:  <20151111193536.GU65715@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20151111084432.GC67251@server.rulingia.com>
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Peter Jeremy wrote this message on Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 19:44 +1100:
> On 2015-Nov-10 22:55:38 -0800, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com> wrote:
> >Again, what???s 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.

I'm running an ARMv4 BE machine (AVILA board), and a MIPS64 BE machine,
the EdgeRouter Lite...

FreeBSD avila.funkthat.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #3 r283010M: Sun May 17 10:16:08 PDT 2015     jmg@carbon.funkthat.com:/a/obj/arm.armeb/a/home/jmg/FreeBSD.svn/HEAD/sys/AVILA  arm

FreeBSD erl.funkthat.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0 r289393M: Thu Oct 15 17:02:12 PDT 2015     jmg@carbon.funkthat.com:/a/obj/mips.mips64/a/home/jmg/FreeBSD.svn/HEAD/sys/ERL  mips

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