On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 02:02:31AM +0200, Sébastien Bernard wrote: > Reading the 2 or 3 warning from from debian-devel-announce, > I'm afraid that the sparc architecture is going legacy the same way > that it did for the hppa. > What could it be done to keep this architecture as a first class citizen ? > > If I understood correctly, the debian port of debian is on watch and > should improve or it'll be removed from testing, > which would be unfortunate. > > What could be done to improve the situation of this port ? > Is the sparc architecture no more relevant to modern computing ? > > I'm willing to dedicate a share of my time or hardware if there's > something to be done.
I'd guess skilled hacker time is more needed than hardware. Reading https://release.debian.org/jessie/arch_qualify.html , it seems major blocking issues are: "Using gcc-4.6 as default compiler" and "Have to run oldstable kernels". Related to this: only 1 porter, only partial upstream support. Bye, Joost - who'd _love_ to have a fully supported Debian on sparc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140418045627.gv2...@beskar.mdcc.cx