Re: Creation of Sparc (32-bit) port.

2007-08-22 Thread Ulrich Teichert
Hi, >This has already been said a dozen of time, but it looks like some >people do not understand. Let's try a last time. > >Creating a 32-bit sparc repository won't help. We already know that the >32-bit sparc userland, is working correctly (apart for a dozen of >packages, but that's fixable), as

Sparc as SBC?

2007-08-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello SPARC Geeks, I have tested several different Systems, but it seems, that ANY i386, amd64, ia64 and ARM based Computers are not working realy stable, if the environement temperature increase dramaticaly. I mean temperatures of arround 50° in North-Africa and Near-East. I run since some time

Re: Creation of Sparc (32-bit) port.

2007-08-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Chris, Am 2007-08-20 22:40:11, schrieb Chris Andrew: > Andy, > > Thanks for your reply. It is because of this situation that I am trying to > get people to think about the separate port. All distro' are held back by > one thing, and that is kernel development. > > The last thing I want t

Re: Creation of Sparc (32-bit) port.

2007-08-22 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Chris Andrew a écrit : > All, > > It seems that people are very keen to see 32 bit support die. Who do > I have to contact to get a separate 32 bit sparc port set-up? As > suggested before, we can give the new port 6 months, and see what > happens? At the moment, 32 bit future is not looking go

Re: Sparc (32) kernel development.

2007-08-22 Thread Martin
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 22:36 +0100, Chris Andrew wrote: > Hi, all. > > If I was interested in contributing to maintaining the kernel for > sparc (32), where would be the best place to go, to get involved? Any > good mailing lists for kernel newbies, specific to sparc (32)? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: Creation of Sparc (32-bit) port.

2007-08-22 Thread Martin
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 23:22 +0100, Chris Andrew wrote: > All, > > It seems that people are very keen to see 32 bit support die. I wouldn't have said that. When it was first announced that a new maintainer for the 32 bit kernel was needed, or failing that sparc32 support would have to be dropped,

Re: Creation of Sparc (32-bit) port.

2007-08-22 Thread Martin
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 17:41 -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:39:16AM +0100, Martin wrote: > > As far as I know nothing has happened for precisely the same reason that > > sparc32 had to be dropped - there isn't anyone to work on the kernel. > > Without that then a separate por