On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 19:52 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:37:46PM -0500, Dan Oglesby wrote: > > Does Debian need/want more testers for older Sun systems like the IPC, > > SPARCStation 1/2/5/20? I have a handful of older systems and a small > > pile of SBus cards, all in working order, and didn't know if setting > > these systems up for testing would be useful or not. > > As far as I'm aware, Debian does not support 32-bit SPARC system since > lenny. Apparently, there is nobody working on the upstream kernel for > 32-bit SPARC machines. It's also my understanding that jettisoning the > 32-bit systems allows Debian to compile for SPARC v9 systems, which can > provide significant performance benefits. > > So, probably not.
IIRC support was dropped because no one wanted to maintain them. At one point there was an effort to provide packages for them; this may still exist. If not, if the original poster wanted to set these machines up and work on supporting them again I'm sure there would be greatful users. I suspect it wouldn't be too much effort, esp. for the SPARC V8 based machines. Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org