From owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Mon Aug 8 20:38:46 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@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 866AABB34A2 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 20:38:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig001@lerwick.hopto.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6961D32 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 20:38:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig001@lerwick.hopto.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 6860FBB34A1; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 20:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: sparc64@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 6577CBB34A0 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 20:38:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig001@lerwick.hopto.org) Received: from iredmail.bsdtec.net (bsdtec.plus.com [84.92.41.141]) (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 1970B1D31 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 20:38:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig001@lerwick.hopto.org) Received: from iredmail.bsdtec.net (unknown [172.16.32.11]) by iredmail.bsdtec.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED468ADD1 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 20:38:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at iredmail.bsdtec.net Received: from iredmail.bsdtec.net ([172.16.32.11]) by iredmail.bsdtec.net (iredmail.bsdtec.net [172.16.32.11]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 9soO54mMzBCj for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 20:38:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.114] (loki.lerwick.hopto.org [192.168.1.1]) by iredmail.bsdtec.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C79628ADA0; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 20:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1470688707.3429.6.camel@atlas.lerwick.hopto.org> Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 From: Craig Butler To: Mark Linimon Cc: Adrian Chadd , Anna Wilcox , freebsd-arch , Marius Strobl , Sean Bruno , Jordan Hubbard , sparc64@freebsd.org, Warner Losh Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 21:38:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20160808184002.GA15252@lonesome.com> References: <64302b19-9f33-4267-af44-7fc30ea4bf3d@email.android.com> <56434F34.6040707@sorbs.net> <20160805153236.GA16908@funkthat.com> <20160808184002.GA15252@lonesome.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 20:38:46 -0000 On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 13:40 -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 08:32:36AM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > If you care, then give donations to the FreeBSD Foundation, and say > > you want/need sparc64 and/or sun4v support... > > From what I've been told, the Foundation isn't really interested in > putting resources towards sparc64 support. > > fwiw, I have a stack of machines that I would donate if there were some > place to host them. (I was able to acquire them inexpensively from my > last employer; more such machines show up now and then). > > From time to time I build packages on one of them. If there is interest > I will poke at making some for 11.0. Given the electricity cost (figure > $25/server/mo) I'm not too interested in leaving them on 24x7. > > Especially in the Texas summers. > > mcl > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" A lot of port maintainers are also annoyingly not interested in sparc64 fixes when you submit PR's. I would be willing to put some more time and effort into keeping up with the ports and maybe branching out into the src if I can get a mentor to point a n00b in the right direction and rip the code to bits. Regards Craig Butler