Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:32:54 -0400 From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: future of sparc64 Message-ID: <be825c73-d524-1d2b-fb42-b4d1e27ccb72@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <20171007174124.GA20810@lonesome.com> References: <CANCZdfq5=KRp4NYKsc15gyS9C7CxrBFxcKQLPwnb_0oPb15vJw@mail.gmail.com> <20171005234149.GE8557@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <59D6CA6C.1040502@Wilcox-Tech.com> <20171007174124.GA20810@lonesome.com>
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On 10/7/17 1:41 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 07:12:28PM -0500, A. Wilcox wrote: >> That doesn't change the fact that sparc64 still exists, and with Oracle >> laying off Solaris as well, FreeBSD becomes a "way out" for people >> heavily invested (DC full of sparc64 gear, or such). > > I have thought for some time that we've been a "way out" for Solaris > sites wanting to keep ZFS and not deal with licensing issues, and have > worked to keep sparc64 alive. (AFAIK FreeBSD is the only open source > sparc64/zfs solution?) > > But here's the current problem. > > All gccs > 4.9 fail to build. Looking at the logs AFAICT the failure > is a floating-point exception as soon as the first built binary is run > during the internal testing. I built gcc 6.0.4 (natively) on a sparc64 stable/11 a week ago. I built the stable/11 kernel with that compiler (it required a one-line change to the kernel sources), and have been running that on my sparc64 stable/11 gateway since I got it compiled. The pkg'd binary for gcc 6.0.4 is here: http://pkg.pix.net/FreeBSD:11:sparc64/gcc6-6.4.0_1.txz -Kurt
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