Hello, many thanks for the info! So if I explore the UltraSPARC platform, I guess I will stick with the available older binary release of FPC. I think it will be able to compile my software with minimal changes.
I wonder if I compile something on an UltraSPARC server, if the compiled program would run on a NetGear ReadyNAS Duo with Infrant IT3107 Sparc processor? Do you know? Cheers, Tobias Giesen ---- On Sat, 11 Mar 2017 20:06:24 +0000 Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: > On 11/03/17 18:00, tobiasgie...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > > I noticed there is no binary FPC 3.0.2 Linux release for SPARC. Should it > > be possible to compile it for SPARC, possibly using the older binary 2.6.2 > > release? > > If yes, I am interested in buying a used UltraSPARC system. If it has a > > DVD-ROM and avideo board, it should be easy to install Linux on it, is that > > correct? > > Cheers,Tobias Giesen > > From the FPC side of things, I think that I tested 2.6.4 on SPARC but I > can't remember how far I progressed into 2.6.4 or whether I touched 3.0 > at all. I have no immediate (i.e. this weekend) plans to revisit the > architecture, same applies to Solaris. > > From the architecture side of things, Linux (which in practice means > Debian) is in deep trouble on SPARC. The core problem is that for the > last 10 years or so the kernel has been 64-bit with 32-bit "userland", > but that is now unsupportable and there is frenzied activity from a very > small number of developers trying to get the entire thing 64-bit. How > FPC will behave on that is, of course, anybody's guess. > > So quite frankly, you're likely to find that the last mostly-reliable > Linux to run on SPARC is approximately Debian "Lenny", and you will also > find that the age of the system libraries on that will gradually make > supporting FPC on it a problem. You /might/ be able to start with Lenny > and update to Squeeze or later, but my experience with Debian SPARC > installation media post-Lenny was deeply frustrating. > > Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings. SPARC systems can be great fun, > particularly in cold weather :-) > > -- > Mark Morgan Lloyd > markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk > > [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal Kind Regards, Tobias Giesen Super Flexible Software Ltd. & Co. KG Buddenstr. 29-31 48143 Münster, Germany www.superflexible.com www.tgtools.com ----------------------------------------------------------- Registered at register court Münster as HRA 9716 Liability / general partner: TGTools Ltd. Company No. 05513299 Registered in England and Wales Directors: Tobias Giesen and Claudia Giesen _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal