Hi all. Debian have decided to drop support for sparc. See additional details here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/07/msg00023.html To the best of my understanding this is 32 bit userland on top of sparc64 kernel that is dropped. In Debian ports there is a sparc64 port which is 64-bit userland on top of sparc64 kernel. There are talks about improving support for the sparc64 ports but I have not read anything conclusive. Additional details can be found the following bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745938 A major issue is that gcc-4.9 cannot be built for sparc for reasons that I failed to follow. When I read: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745938#48 I get the impression that this is for the most part bugs that may have been fixed recently. The regression testing doen by Meelis Roos has shown that things has improved a lot the last couple of months if I recall correct. So sad that Debian drops sparc support now when these fixes may not have propagated. In a G+ post I also referred to the memcpy / FPU register corruption bug that David only recently were able to reproduce. I am not sure how much this bug influence the lack of stability that people see when using sparc64 kernels. See details here: http://marc.info/?t=143382318800002&r=1&w=2 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
