Hello, On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:07:10PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I was wondering how many here are still interested in the Debian > SPARC port?
Interest is there, but unfortunately nearly no time during the next 6 Months. > In the past weeks, I have invested some efforts to revive the sparc64 > port a bit and managed to get at least gcc-5 compile and work through > the build queue a bit. Rod Schnell, a user from the US, kindly donated > an UltraSPARC IIIi for use which I set up as an additional buildd and > porterbox (Hostname: raverin). That I can offer too for at least a limited time: We have also some US III sparc boxes sitting around here. Last problem with vanilla kernel on one of the boxes was a scsi host problem, on with DaveM referred to the host drivers maintainer, at which point I gave up. > Anyone here willing to join the efforts to fix the sparc64 port or > even resurrect the 32-bit SPARC port which was recently removed from > Debian? What's in Debian wheezy is the 32-bit SPARC with 64-bit Kernel, right ? > I think it might be actually a good idea to resurrect the 32-bit > port and add it to Debian ports since sparc32 seems to be a in > a better shape regarding kernel and toolchain support. My time will allow only a litte bit of testing (e.g. including sources list and try some packages). Good luck, greetings Hermann -- Netzwerkadministration/Zentrale Dienste, Interdiziplinaeres Zentrum fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universitaet Heidelberg IWR; INF 368; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)54-8236 Fax: -5224 Email: hermann.la...@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de