I like the idea of maintaining sparc32. It seems as if we have the machines. I guess it's getting the talent to do the programming. Being a noob when it comes to maintaining I'm open for learning and direction. I will continue to pursue, ask questions, and such for my own knowledge and to help the effort.
Rod On 9/15/2015 9:32 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 09/15/2015 04:10 PM, waz0wski wrote: >> I would love to see Debian-on-SPARC continue on, even if not fully >> supported, similar to how the FreeBSD project handles sparc64[1] > > Ok, the question is: Do we want sparc32 as well or just sparc64? As > I mentioned already, sparc32 (32-bit userland and 64-bit kernel - > where supported) most likely needs less porting and should be > easier to be kept up-to-date than sparc64. > > However, both 32-bit and 64-bit SPARC packages can be built on > 64-bit machines using different build chroots. > >> 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. > > I will come back to that. > > Adrian >
