Hello Karel and Joachim, 2014-01-09, Karel Gardas: > I'm curious what's the status of Debian or > general Linux on SPARC or SPARC64. I've read that Debian removed SPARC > port from testing/unstable in 2014 so I'm curious if I shall deal with > compatiblity issues between Solaris/Linux or not at all
2015-01-09, Joachim Breitner: > I’ve CCed the right list for this, they might know more. I'm just another Debian user, but AFAIK, the "sparc" architecture has been removed from jessie/testing only: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/01/msg00000.html While currently it can be in a quite problematic state: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745938 "sparc" still remains in unstable and "sparc64" is still in debian-ports, e. g.: http://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=ghc&suite=unstable http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=ghc&suite=unstable (BTW, we can also ask Gentoo about the current state of its SPARC support). Karel: > and assume that future GHC SPARC target is really just Solaris OS. Just for the note: sadly, it looks like they have removed UltraSPARC II, III, IV legacy CPU series support from Solaris 11 (hopefully, they'll continue to support them in Solaris 10): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29#Version_history Karel: > FYI: the issue is that Solaris switched to Sun's asm which does have > different syntax than GNU asm. So to preserve compatibility with GNU or > not to preserve that is the question. :-) Are the differences so hard? Maybe the GNU assembler already has the support for Sun syntax? Then it looks more like a GNU Binutils issue: http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/ --- Best wishes, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
