On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote:
> So basically someone just needs to take the effort to pull down the > sources, try to build, and find out what (if anything) breaks. > we're interested, but have no SPARC machine to work with...poor us... > > My biggest concern right now is that I haven't tested the SPARC build of > my libc_i18n work, and I probably have screwed up the Makefiles > (forgotten to list some sources). That's super trivial to fix, once we > bother to test it. If you do the test now, then we can be done with > it. ;-) > > I have an interest in SPARC, but I'm focused entirely on getting the > critical x86 bits in first. My sparc hardware hasn't been powered on in > a while (its older stuff mostly... although I have an SB2500 I could set > up), so it would take time to hook it up and start a build. I just > haven't taken the time. > > So, want to help out here? Start doing a build, and fix the > brokenness.... I know I have found at least one bug in the sparc libc > Makefiles that I'm about to integrate a fix for. There are probably > others. > > As far as building a distro... until we have replacements or all the > critical closed bits, its kind of a pointless effort. That said, there > are some folks working on it. It will > Does anybody have any idea about some server to have access to? Best regards, HeCSa. > > - Garrett > > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 13:25 -0400, Frank Middleton wrote: > > Just went through the entire discuss and developer mailman > > archives, and there's nary a mention of SPARC. There's a whole > > slew of SPARC users out there, stuck at b134, wondering what > > to do. Sun, even before being acquired, wasn't really disposed > > towards supporting older hardware and doubtless this hasn't > > changed. As a /very/ long time Solaris user, I'm loth to switch > > to BSD (or Linux, where my experience hasn't been that great). > > > > Alan Coopersmith was kind enough to take the time to make the > > XSun sources available and I've been busy coming up with a > > strategy to get it to build without encumbered code. However, > > once this is done, it looks like there might not be an OS to run > > it on. > > > > Would it be true that there's no one active at Illumos who has > > any interest in SPARC? I see Martin Bochnig is active on these > > lists, so there's probably at least one. I'd be only happy to dive in > > and try what ironically may be a port /to/ SPARC when the appropriate > > time comes. It may be too early to ask some of these questions, but: > > > > o Is Illumos interested at all in directly or indirectly supporting > > a SPARC distribution? Currently Martux is the only OSol distro > > for SPARC and IIRC it relies heavily on BSD and hasn't been updated > > in quite a while. I believe it also depends on encumbered code. I > > have no idea if Martin has any plans to revive Martux using the > > Illumos code base, but if he does, and needs some help... > > > > o Using GCC for kernel building on SPARC has been spotty. If > > Illumos plans to migrate away from Sun Studio, this could have > > a significant impact on maintaining SPARC support. Not sure > > how to mitigate this other than actually building a SPARC distro. > > > > o Do you need help testing things like the ports of sed and iconv > > on SPARC? I'm kinda busy with the XSun thing, but keeping > > the SPARC alive might need to be ongoing... > > > > o I subscribed to announce, discuss, and developer. Presumably one > > or more of those lists will indicate when the time has come to > > actually try to build a distribution - my guess is that that time > > may be a little way off. Is there a hoped-for date? > > > > Thanks -- Frank > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss > -- HeCSa
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