Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:24:22 -0800 From: Cameron Berkenpas <cam@neo-zeon.de> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc? Message-ID: <d872ddc8-5366-4e8d-dd8f-5a9c872cbfad@neo-zeon.de> In-Reply-To: <20210210223920.GA31353@lonesome.com> References: <20210210223920.GA31353@lonesome.com>
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I have 2 server's (kvm instances) running on POWER9 that I will upgrade to 13.0-RELEASE as soon as it's released. I know you asked about 12, but maybe this data point is still useful. I have 2 FreeBSD 13 VM's across 2 physical POWER9 hosts (so 1 VM per host) that I've been using to follow the development of 13. Other than the occasional hiccup, 13 seems quite a bit a bit better than 12.2 on POWER especially after the switch from gcc to llvm settled down. On 2/10/21 2:39 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > So I want to get an idea if we can start trying to move FreeBSD/powerpc* > users from 12.X to 13.0 once 13.0 is released. > > The problem is that we have limitations on: > > - hardware resources w/rt building ports on 3 branches > > - human resources trying to support 3 branches > > The powerpc ports team (the entire handful of us) is talking about > dropping ports building for 12-STABLE in favor of starting to build > 14-CURRENT. > > How many people will this affect if we do so? > > fwiw, I personally believe 13.0 will be a complete superset except for: > > - ports that fail due to duplicate_symbol > > and all of those are problems shared with even amd64. > > (Also, I personally believe that it is fair to say "we do not really > support powerpc* on 10.X or 11.Y. Please upgrade.") > > How many people will these changes effect? It's time to speak up ... > > mcl > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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