That looks interesting from Oracle about Sparc64. Forwarding Debian to the Sparc kernel mailing list. On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 10:06 +0900, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi James! > > > On Oct 8, 2015, at 9:44 AM, James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx > > > wrote: > > FYI, > > Oracle developers have been working on Sparc Linux (as some may > > have noticed from lkml commits). We've just made an initial cut of > > this available publicly, for the purposes of sharing it with the > > wider community. > This is awesome, thank you! I was actually wondering why there was > apparently no public activity from Oracle and Fujitsu regarding SPARC > despite them still selling SPARC-related hard- and software. > > See https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/ > > There are some mailing lists, a git repo, installable distro etc. > Superb! > > I hope that some of this work will be useful to the Debian project, > > and please feel free to provide us with feedback. > Absolutely. What should be on top of the priority list is fixing > binutils and gcc for SPARC. We had two rather nasty bugs in binutils > [1] and [2]. > While [1] has recently been fixed, thanks to Michael Karcher's > excellent debugging skills, we still have [2] which needs to be > fixed. It would be awesome if one of the SPARC experts at Oracle > could take a look and use the reduced test case, that was again > provided by Michael Karcher, to help fix the issue. > There is also another gcc bug which prevents us from using multi-arch > (32-bit on 64-bit SPARC), but I haven't reported that one yet. Will > follow up shortly. > I think it should also be in Oracle's and Fujitsu's interests to get > the toolchain with binutils and gcc fixed on SPARC as I assume these > are also used internally for development. > I will send an email to Debian FTP and the Buildd principal admins to > ask them to ask SPARC (32 bit) back to ports, also citing your mail > which proves there is still upstream support for SPARC. > Thanks a lot for your mail! > Adrian > [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18855 > [2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19019 -- 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
