Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-07-23 Thread andrew holway
Slightly like watching a group of boys poking a nearly dead dog. On 23/07/07, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:38:04PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Do you really think this is a decision that was made lightly? The > > pro

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-07-23 Thread Ben Finney
Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:38:04PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Do you really think this is a decision that was made lightly? The > > problem is, and that has been mentioned before, that *there is no > > upstream maintainer* for sparc32. Unless some people

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-07-23 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:39:10PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > OK, not being a SPARC expert myself, I'd still like to see a list of > issues or bugs which are worth dropping a whole sub-architecture. > > Maybe some of them don't even require a SPARC guru to fix them? Maybe > some are "easy" enough

Re: Sparc32 systems and power consumption

2007-07-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "Bruce O'Neel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As a result I've done some power measurements on them in order to find the > lowest > power system that will do what I need. Interesting! > SS20/Dual 100 hypersparc75watts > SS20/180 Hypersparc 77watts > SS20/Dual 55 hypersparc

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-07-23 Thread Chris Newport
Uwe Hermann wrote: Well, I just saw three or more sparc32 patches being committed to Linus' git tree today or yesterday, so that may not be quite correct. You are missing the point. Those patches were created by enthusiastic users fixing the problems that they have experienced. Until someo

Re: Sparc32 systems and power consumption

2007-07-23 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Bruce O'Neel a écrit : > As someone else pointed out though, a NSLU2 is very very low power > (my watt meter doesn't measure it). It's even lower power than some > cheap 8 port Netgear switch (at 11 watts). The house server is a > NSLU2 because of that. I have measured about 850mA on the 5V sid

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-07-23 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:38:04PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Do you really think this is a decision that was made lightly? > The problem is, and that has been mentioned before, that *there is no > upstream maintainer* for sparc32. Unless some people step up and ensure > that upstream issues _are_

Sparc32 systems and power consumption

2007-07-23 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi, I have both a collection of sparc32 systems (2x SS20s, 2x SS5/170s, 1x SS4) and a very strong interest in low power in systems that run 24/7. As a result I've done some power measurements on them in order to find the lowest power system that will do what I need. (All of the below should h

Re: Sparcstation20 (32 bit) user needs good /etc/apt/sources.list

2007-07-23 Thread Chris Andrew
I can't get the /etc/apt/sources.list at the moment, but the file was generated using option 1 in dselect (repo set-up). Can anyway post a good sources.list for sparc (32)? Thanks, Chris. On 23/07/07, Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 00:22:52 +0100, Chris And