From owner-freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Sat Jan 2 19:09:57 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@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 6C2CFA5E3E1; Sat, 2 Jan 2016 19:09:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from d.mail.sonic.net (d.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C73F1FFE; Sat, 2 Jan 2016 19:09:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (75-101-50-44.static.sonic.net [75.101.50.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by d.mail.sonic.net (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id u02J9hPV018405 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:09:44 -0800 Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 To: alexmcwhirter@triadic.us, Daniel Rudy References: <907918196.5618077.1448540168305.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <122e82d505433d5b052b0f6e5ab28d1d@triadic.us> Cc: Adrian Chadd , Anna Wilcox , sparc64@freebsd.org, Marius Strobl , Sean Bruno , freebsd-arch , Jukka Ukkonen , Jordan Hubbard , owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org From: Nathan Whitehorn Message-ID: <56882077.6080703@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:09:43 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <122e82d505433d5b052b0f6e5ab28d1d@triadic.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVY3DE3kPEYvHNvD9Hl/WB23naBit8i2FqcZGXb+h2JCMyzXY2lHa310TQPkCiBiA5HmyxoJMNREVZt9qa8ouFt96wAYEIJxrcM= X-Sonic-ID: C;1DPOYYSx5RGbk+1jAoajKQ== M;6iMJYoSx5RGbk+1jAoajKQ== X-Spam-Flag: No X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:45:25 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:09:57 -0000 On 01/02/16 10:17, alexmcwhirter@triadic.us wrote: > It turns out that i will have some time open up this year and i would > love to do some work on SPARC64, i have plenty of machines laying > around. Im also not opposed to hosting a machine or two in my office's > DC for others who want to help. > > I guess i need to know what needs attention first? I'd like to do some > work on the bootloader and installer (zfs from installer would be > nice) and of course sun4v. It seems what needs the most attention is > the build toolchain, am i correct? I can't recall what version of GCC > SPARC64 is currently running, but 4.9 shouldn't be too hard to > implement. I think clang is not really considerable at the moment and > GCC 5.0+ will take more work, but 4.9 is still newer than what most > GNU/Linux distros are providing excluding the bleeding edge ones. ZFS should already work from the installer if you use the partition editor rather than the x86-only "ZFS" tool. I haven't tested it, but the support has been there for some time and should work. Toolchain work would be really helpful, I think (as would testing of those installer bits!). -Nathan > > This would be my first real contribution to FreeBSD, so any pointers > or docs are graciously accepted. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >