On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:29:27AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Well, for upstream support there is: at the bottom of the page. According > to doko sparc32 code generation is unmaintained upstream, and he doesn't > want to step up to maintain it any longer.
Well, that is no less of a problem than it was before, no? I don't recall seeing many sparc32 compiler bugs over the last few years. I do recall some sparc kernel bugs, which were incidentally all eventually fixed. > Furthermore I found the following thread dated back to 2007: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2007/07/msg00049.html I think the only result from this was that a sparc32 kernel and installer was dropped, as Jurij said there. That was during a time when that kernel was particularly problematic, which has actually improved a lot upstream and they had no problem keeping it - though it probably still lags a bit behind because there's maybe one person regularly testing, the rest are on-and-off, but it remains in the tree and is covered by all the generic changes and testing. Few people have been affected by this, because the remaining non-64-bit machines (which can't run the 64-bit kernel) are both fairly scarce and very slow by today's standards. OTOH, if we missed the squeeze release altogether, all users of the port would be affected. Still not a whole lot of people, but at the same time, it's a huge chunk of the users of Linux on SPARC in general. We shouldn't do this for reasons that are based on what boils down to a rational fear of bit rot. It it certain that the problem can cause bugs over the years. But at this rate, a dozen bugs is pretty much a drop in the sea. > So far nobody stepped up to provide us with a working sparc64 port. > I know that aurel32 did some work on zee.debian.org, but was hurt by > bad RAM in that box (AFAIR). That sounds like a reason why a sparc64-only port would be unreleasable, which bodes well for the actually working mixed port :) > What we are currently struggling with are build failures that happen on > one class of the builders, while not happening on the other, and IIRC > this is happening vice-versa. Hopefully others can fill in the gaps I > left here. Are these failures connected to the compiler issue, or is it just a manpower issue in tracking it down? -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100818083047.ga27...@entuzijast.net