Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-userland for SPARC

2017-03-01 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 06:27:47PM +0100, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > > Of course SPARC is not an officially supported platform. That's our > > goal, not the current situation. We can't reach that goal in one > > giant leap, either. That's why I, and a few others, are building > > oi-userland comp

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-userland for SPARC

2017-02-28 Thread Aurélien Larcher
> Of course SPARC is not an officially supported platform. That's our > goal, not the current situation. We can't reach that goal in one > giant leap, either. That's why I, and a few others, are building > oi-userland components on SPARC. We will have to take several smaller > steps to reach th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-userland for SPARC

2017-02-28 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:09:25PM +0100, Adam Števko wrote: > Hey Gary, > > I am sorry, but as of this moment we don’t have any way to test and > merge these changes into oi-userland. SPARC is not an officially > supported OpenIndiana hardware platform. Of course SPARC is not an officially suppo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-userland for SPARC

2017-02-27 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hi Adam! > >> we are lacking infrastructure without which we can't > >> do anything SPARC-related. [...] > > > > So what exactly do you need? > > we are not lacking HW resources. There is enough people who are able to > provide us with HW resources. However, we lack people actively working on >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-userland for SPARC

2017-02-27 Thread Adam Števko
Hey Volker, > On Feb 27, 2017, at 11:18 PM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > Hi Adam! > > >> we are lacking infrastructure without which we can't >> do anything SPARC-related. > > This is a bit surprising because many people have been offering SPARC > systems and hosting and other support over t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-userland for SPARC

2017-02-27 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hi Adam! > we are lacking infrastructure without which we can't > do anything SPARC-related. This is a bit surprising because many people have been offering SPARC systems and hosting and other support over the years -- the last offer came from David Halko only a week ago (in the illumos-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-userland for SPARC

2017-02-27 Thread Adam Števko
Hey, I would also nicely ask Agnar to report the current status of his work and how others can help him. Cheers, Adam > On Feb 27, 2017, at 11:09 PM, Adam Števko wrote: > > Hey Gary, > > I am sorry, but as of this moment we don’t have any way to test and merge > these changes into oi-userla

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-userland for SPARC

2017-02-27 Thread Adam Števko
Hey Gary, I am sorry, but as of this moment we don’t have any way to test and merge these changes into oi-userland. SPARC is not an officially supported OpenIndiana hardware platform. I understand that there might be a huge demand for SPARC, but we are lacking infrastructure without which we ca

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-userland for SPARC

2017-02-27 Thread ken mays via openindiana-discuss
Gary, Ref:https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+with+oi-userland https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Contributing+to+hipster Review the github way of reviewing and pulling packages/patches:https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland This was anyone can review and utilize your patches to what they

[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi-userland for SPARC

2017-02-27 Thread Gary Mills
I've been slowly building the components of Hipster oi-userland on my SPARC machine. In this process, I've accumulated dozens of changes to component Makefiles and new patches for source files. All of my changes are intended to have no effect on builds for x86 hardware. How do I submit these cha