> > I really hope that the sparc community can take benefit of the time we > invested in this. Sometimes I have asked myself what is the size of the sparc32 community? Personally I got more involved in sparc development because I wanted to simplify the way we handled our headers and a natural step forward was to get the remaining architectures merged where sparc & sparc64 was one of the outstanding architectures. A responsive maintainer also helped a lot. I have looked around for a decent distribution that claim up-to-date support for sparc. But they all seem to be dropping sparc support. And here sparc64 is in focus - not sparc32. And I understand that sparc32 does not work well for many people. I know that recent kernels only can run on SparcServer 1000 for a few minutes before it locks hard. And I expect we see similar problems on sun4m boxes with > 1 CPU. The bug you have fixed (with great effort) in the unaligned trap handler further confirm to me that that not many users are running recent kernels on sparc32 hardware. I also recall that I broke sparc32 during the unification, which took months to e detected. Personally I run sparc only to test my kernel contributions, as the hw I have available is too noisy / too slow to be used for anything else. But IMHO the sparc boxes are quite nice and the sparc32 architecture code does not deserve to bitrot. So when Gaisler sponsored me a LEON4 evaluation board I decided to concentrate my effort on sparc. I have had no benefit of the evaluation board - yet. The current effort is to bring the sparc32 stuff up snuff - and this will also benefit the LEON support. I expect one day that my contributions rasies above the janitorial level... It also looks better on the CV when I can say that I have refactored the IRQ support on sparc compared to some random kbuild hacking :-) So Gaislers contributions helps the sparc32 community. And I expect that the combined effort will allow more people to use a recent kernel on sparc32 and thus will increase the community. But how big the community is - is an open question to me. Note: If someone has - or knows about - a SS1000 that I can use for Linux testing I am all ears. (I live in Scandinavia / Denmark) Contact me in private as this in not relevant on the list. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
