From owner-freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Tue Nov 10 04:59:44 2015 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 7C469A2B214; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 04:59:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-io0-x22c.google.com (mail-io0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47DF91379; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 04:59:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by iodd200 with SMTP id d200so209291836iod.0; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 20:59:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=0AK6W9SWqIV2dF/rWYqiLrT0ip6i7kfvW1cONrI5TEM=; b=s+tocQ4TRzWI9WwXNErxM3munVRt7i7oAgPj7USdRi3IUf7Mkf2cR3b1dVngDL/5Ra nGB0BuY1r6ePk+QQro51y4GASOX26mrOiuU8DF2Nus9nRsnmXAcWitrhWEj++gJbJywn +JWfDRNhdxPEKWsgvTd9NbHPcZDUnmxe24uOxhf5GS2d/PNDEI4Hb5fga3ttFQnp2dFh jSCIDv8rT8wcPp2p85/qPLSmKq1FfPtDnLt4ZCwzGD1H+2o7qPFx/eWld2ECXt1DvpLQ rvwuIcdmjKtYg09stCyqsmYrZm9E/WFBLYvWsJ1Ip+7Frm7KSslosjDlSJkukKDOWEzd 0Euw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.46.142 with SMTP id u14mr1806712iou.165.1447131583247; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 20:59:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.217.196 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Nov 2015 20:59:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <56417100.5050600@Wilcox-Tech.com> References: <563A5893.1030607@freebsd.org> <2AAC0EF3-528B-476F-BA9C-CDC3004465D0@bsdimp.com> <20151108155501.GA1901@alchemy.franken.de> <563F8385.3090603@freebsd.org> <56417100.5050600@Wilcox-Tech.com> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 20:59:43 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 From: Adrian Chadd To: Anna Wilcox Cc: Sean Bruno , Marius Strobl , sparc64@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 04:59:44 -0000 On 9 November 2015 at 20:22, Anna Wilcox wrote: > > Just as a further note, I had experimented in January of this year with > making a binary pkg mirror for sun4u using my (comparatively sad) Ultra > 60 and a cross-build system. Installation was fairly straightforward > but I was having issues bringing up Clang and was having many issues > trying to build "modern" packages using GCC 4.2.1. > > See my blog for some insight: http://blog.foxkit.us/search/label/sparc Oh wow, cool, you've been busy! That's great. > > Unfortunately, truth be told, I gave up after the Freenode IRC channel > gave me a whole heap of abuse and name-calling for trying to ask for any > support with the sparc64 port. I couldn't find the documentation I > needed to keep going and nobody wanted to help. If there are others > working on this and I am not alone after all, I will gladly pull the > Ultra 60 back on to my desk and do what I can to help out. GCC 4.8 or > 4.9 would be a huge, huge, huge improvement in particular. Ugh, IRC can be jerks. Grab me on efnet (adrian) and i'll direct you into a slightly less posionous channel. :)