Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 21:38:27 +0100 From: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, Anna Wilcox <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>, sparc64@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 Message-ID: <1470688707.3429.6.camel@atlas.lerwick.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <20160808184002.GA15252@lonesome.com> References: <64302b19-9f33-4267-af44-7fc30ea4bf3d@email.android.com> <56434F34.6040707@sorbs.net> <CAJ-VmonAhoch8XR%2BJdM%2Bbr5jxvngQdithtgaDAJ4XmgEahreYw@mail.gmail.com> <20160805153236.GA16908@funkthat.com> <20160808184002.GA15252@lonesome.com>
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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
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