On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 17:22:09 -0400, Robert Reif wrote: > Jurij Smakov wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Now that we have released, we need to set our goals for the future. As > >you probably guessed from the subject, I am strongly in favor of > >dropping sparc32 support for lenny. There are multiple reasons for it, > >including > > > >* Nearly complete lack of upstream support. David Miller, current > > upstream maintainer of sparc64 has expressed his thoughts on the > > topic in [0], triggering the discussion about dropping sparc32 > > support in Aurora Linux. [1] > >* Several serious problems, like lack of SMP support and driver > > failures (CD-ROMs do not work for some reason). > >* Shrinking userbase, flaky hardware. [snip] > Why can't you have official sparc32 and sparc64 ports? > > That way you can optimize sparc64 and still have sparc32 support. > Did you read what Jurij wrote?
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