Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:08:10 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, kensmith@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Subject: Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available? Message-ID: <201003291208.10513.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4BACCC0C.7010401@freebsd.org> References: <4BA9C0AC.3080801@wooh.hu> <20100325233558.GI20888@alchemy.franken.de> <4BACCC0C.7010401@freebsd.org>
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On Friday 26 March 2010 11:00:28 am Colin Percival wrote: > I think the best approach towards having FreeBSD Update support for > sparc64 is to get release cross-building working; that way we would > be able to use amd64 hardware, which I think we can safely assume > will continue to be available in ever-increasing speeds. Err, release cross-building does work AFAIK. ru@ worked on it many years ago. Have you tried it and run into problems? -- John Baldwin
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