On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 08:46:11PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 01:48:02PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > Hi all sparc lovers/users. > > > > We all know that is is a long time ago that a sun4m or sun4d machine was produced, > > and I wonder if there are anyone using these today. > > The questions pops up as there are still stuff to do before the sparc32 port > > is in good shape. > > > > So the question to you guys... > > Shall we keep support for sun4d and sun4m? > > If yes then why? > > > > LEON is in active use in several applications - so the sparc32 port is > > as relevant as ever. > > Just a fololow-up to my original question. > > We still have a few brave souls running the kernels on sparc32 based boxes. > On top of this there are templig.org that looks like a one-man show to implment > sparc32 in VHDL. But very impressive! > Then there are qemu that today supports sun4m - if we drop sun4m we also drop > qemu support for sparc. > > So in total there are still reasons to keep sun4m and sun4d around. > > Thanks everyone for your responses! And then I read this on LWN: Debian drops the SPARC architecture - http://lwn.net/Articles/596663/ Which point to: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745938 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
