I would love to see Debian-on-SPARC continue on, even if not fully supported, similar to how the FreeBSD project handles sparc64[1]
I have access to a couple of UltraSPARC T2 systems (T5220/T5440) which could be made available for development and testing purposes -- ping me off-list for more info. [1] https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html > On Sep 15, 2015, at 7:08 AM, david h. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I would love to resurrect debian sparc 64, I can provide 2 t2000 Sun fires, > and one v880, which are not on line at the moment, but I will use them for > testing. > Also is there someone who made a CD image for a newer debian version to put > on my Sun, so I don't have to build my own? > > Greetings > > David > > Am 15.09.2015 14:01 schrieb "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>: > Hi Frans! > > On 09/15/2015 12:51 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: > > Seen the Gold linker bug on sparc64? Do you think it's related? > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790560 > > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790560> > > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18855 > > <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18855> > > Indeed, that looks like it. Thanks for the heads-up! > > I have already replied to the upstream bug report and will > provide assistance to help fixing the bug. I will also get > into contact with Matthias Klose (doko) and see what he > has to say. > > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
