From owner-svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Fri Oct 16 02:05:11 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@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 4580FA1391D; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 02:05:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E869FFC2; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 02:05:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id t9G259XA031187; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 02:05:09 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from bjk@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id t9G259q1031186; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 02:05:09 GMT (envelope-from bjk@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201510160205.t9G259q1031186@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: bjk set sender to bjk@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 02:05:09 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r47582 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 02:05:11 -0000 Author: bjk Date: Fri Oct 16 02:05:09 2015 New Revision: 47582 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47582 Log: Add Ports on PowerPC report from danfe Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Fri Oct 16 00:39:04 2015 (r47581) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml Fri Oct 16 02:05:09 2015 (r47582) @@ -1412,5 +1412,52 @@ + + Ports on PowerPC + + + + + Alexey + Dokuchaev + + danfe@FreeBSD.org + + + + +

The Ports Collection typically receives less attention on + Tier-2 architectures than on Tier-1 architectures, although + several build-runs were performed at various points in the past, + and broken ports were marked as such at those times.

+ +

Some of the Tier-2 platforms, such as PowerPC and ARM, + have improved considerably recently, both on &os;'s and the + compilers' sides, but as the tree is not rebuilt on the cluster + very often, it was suspected that many ports are marked BROKEN + while they in fact now build and run correctly.

+ +

Over the past several weeks, 26 ports that were indeed + broken on at least PowerPC had been fixed, 58 ports that were + incorrectly marked as broken (left-overs from the old times) were + unmarked, and fewer than 40 ports still have issues requiring + further work. +

+ + + + +

The Ports Collection could benefit a lot from more frequent sweeps + targetting Tier-2 systems.

+ + + +

Recent work on QEMU-backed emulators and the + much-anticipated cross-building of ports are essential pieces to + bring &os; packages on par with the base system's support, + architecture-wise.

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