In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have no interest) because they appears understaffed.
Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since the dev- machine[1] is a bit slow; well, I discovered we have no ISO[2] available and there is no handbook[3] for it. The same thing is for S390/S390X/M68K/. So how I am able to install one of that _supported_ arches if there isn't any sort of guide? An interesting fact is that we have an handbook for MIPS[4], a declared unsupported architecture (does not make sense for me). Another example is that we have no stable keyword on GCC/glibc for m68k and I don't know if I need to use another compiler or another libc. Checking on bugzilla I saw no report for some of those arches, so for me that _partially_ means that probably there are very few users for those arches on gentoo. Now, imho, we have 2 choice: 1)Support them with an iso or at least a manual if we can't do an handbook 2)Lose the stable keyword and don't waste manpower anymore. What do you think about? Ref: [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml [2]: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml [3]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/#doc_chap2 [4]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook- mips.xml?style=printable&full=1 -- Agostino Sarubbo / ago -at- gentoo.org Gentoo Linux Developer
