From: Josip Rodin <joy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 21:22:30 +0200 > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 06:48:24PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> > But I think the focus should probably be on the sheer redness of the sparc >> > columns at: >> > https://release.debian.org/jessie/arch_qualify.html (current release) >> >> >From the link above: >> " >> sparc >> >> Upstream Support >> >> According to the gcc maintainer 32bit code generation as we use it is no longer supported upstream and we should aim for a switch to 64bit userland anytime soon. >> " >> >> Is it correct that 32bit gcc is no longer maintained? >> I have seen nothing on gcc mailaing list about this. > > That's from jessie, which was already released. The said note has been > removed from the list for stretch. The thing is, it makes no sense to go to a 64-bit only userland distribition. What does make sense is maybe only supporting sparc64 kernels, but with a userland that is built 32-bit targetting v8plus. > The problem is that numerous other issues - haven't. It would be nice to narrow things down to the real issues. The only major blocker I know of is the kernel FPU issue, which is what I'm spending all of my sparc cycles on. -- 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
