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Date:      Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:16:08 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net>
To:        Jukka Ukkonen <jau789@gmail.com>, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
Cc:        "sparc64@freebsd.org" <sparc64@freebsd.org>,  Anna Wilcox <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>,  freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>,  Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>,  Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>
Subject:   Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
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On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:33 AM, Jukka Ukkonen <jau789@gmail.com> 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 OpenBSD just fine.  I tried to get FreeBSD 10.2 installed and the CD boot trapped with illegal instruction.  I don't check this email that often, but I will be willing to run some test builds to see if they will boot/install.

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