Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:09:43 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: alexmcwhirter@triadic.us, Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, Anna Wilcox <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>, sparc64@freebsd.org, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, Jukka Ukkonen <jau789@gmail.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>, owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64 Message-ID: <56882077.6080703@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <122e82d505433d5b052b0f6e5ab28d1d@triadic.us> References: <F232B4A3-DB73-4B54-8551-BBCBB702F997@gmail.com> <907918196.5618077.1448540168305.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <122e82d505433d5b052b0f6e5ab28d1d@triadic.us>
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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" >
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