Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 20:48:34 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jordanhubbard@me.com> Cc: Bill Sorenson <instructionset@gmail.com>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>, "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sparc64 support Message-ID: <CAJ-VmomzV0YKQwenwSZv6fMAOUP8TmPs-oyQaM8KTF7Ndhv_%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51EEBC6E-5D85-439D-874D-D223EE045515@me.com> References: <CACcTwYmS1c5uoO-WiJQDwgqYAevX7WZ7ZrP297hnOu7cNET3CA@mail.gmail.com> <mq3sg1$bno$1@ger.gmane.org> <CACcTwYnU=E-6sV3yLh3yKUSPZOg7967XV5ToXoSVPuNfOjF7hQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAHM0Q_NEYWxpHCwEdytfY6i9%2BRO2BebezzmenfQ_1c4u7zGrgg@mail.gmail.com> <CACcTwY=DcUREt5nJWo_eJfrB=3sQXBaS6nc%2B07fpZhxARD0zTQ@mail.gmail.com> <20150809215403.GC20238@server.rulingia.com> <6C12EBFE-EAA9-4C12-9F03-1CB2C28C4A6E@me.com> <CACcTwYktQRTqVSr7PRr5huwbVXVu6oCy26TKiAxzf2NiGAcocA@mail.gmail.com> <51EEBC6E-5D85-439D-874D-D223EE045515@me.com>
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Hi, What's missing is someone funding / finishing the push to external toolchain support for all platforms. What's also missing a little bit here is the tier-1-ness of the external toolchain support by the people using/developing other toolchains. It's basically there. There are some rough edges, but since the compiler-developer people aren't using it and the non-x86-building people aren't being forced to use it, the development inches along very slowly. If you'd like to erm, "rush" this along, we should actively start the "deorbit gcc-4.2 by freebsd-11" and "disconnect gcc-4.2 from the -head build" movement now, get those bits done, and start arm-twisting to get the last bits finished. I've built and run MIPS and MIPS64 with gcc-4.9 - I'll try gcc-5.x next week now that that's the compiler in the ports system. I'll try to do the same for sparc64. We should do the same for PPC next up. So, who's up for it? Let's just get this gcc-4.2 in base removed already. -adrian
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