On Friday 27 April 2007, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-04-25 16:36:07, schrieb Chris Newport: > > You are misinterpreting Sun's position. > > Sun provides hardware and Solaris support for all Sun machines > > until at least 10 years after the last of the type was offered for sale. > > This is one helluva lot longer than most other companies. > > OK. > > > I have Ultra 2 and Ultra 5 machines here, both are supported in both > > Solaris 10 and Linux. Both can be found on EBay, usually selling for > > less than the shipping cost. > > Maybe in the USA, but not in France or Germany... > Since the CPU of my U10 exploded I must run a SS10/512 and if the price > of a U5 is less then shiping, where can I get a U5 for 50 Euro? > > Note: I am looking for a U10 or U20 and I need it generaly as "buildd" > but from time to time as Workstation. > > > All 32 bit Sun machines have been obselete for more than 10 years, > > OK, thats right... > > > the last example being the Sparc 5 which was kept in production > > artificially until the Ultra 5 had been qualified for use as the SSP on > > E10000 systems. > > > > Despite this, the architecture is well documented and Sun have been > > very helpfull in tracking down any information that has been requested. > > > > Sun assists the 64 bit Sparc port of Linux, and has done for > > several years. > > I was on the Website, but there interviews are not realy corresponding > to the "real" world... Even if Sun ovffer it Servers with Solaris OR > Linux. > > > The real problem with Sparc32 is simple, the maintainer is not doing the > > job and nobody has volunteered to take over. Without an active kernel > > maintainer the port is suffering from bit rot and is doomed. > > Unfortunatly I have no clue about SPARC kernels... > > Thanks, Greetings and nice Day > Michelle Konzack > Systemadministrator > Tamay Dogan Network > Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
Perhaps I'm missing something in the big picture, but isn't the only difference between debian-sparc and debian-sparc64 the kernel? The userland is 32bit in both. Why not just use the last kernel davem puts out with support for sparc32 and freeze debian-sparc at that and just update userland? I'm sure sparc32 users will be happy with this compromise rather than have debian-sparc dropped as an official port. Or would that screw up d-i? IvanK. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
