On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 06:30:11AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > What does that have to do with sparc64? You're the only person I know > that has one, so that means development and support is 100% you. And > the chances I get one are about the same as Richard moving back to > Texas :)
Ebay, $250. If you watch, you can find even better deals than that sometimes. > The other issue for me would be quality. If we're hacking every other > package to make it work on sparc64, that begins to degrade the book on > appearance. This is a much more minor point, but basically, I wouldn't > want the book to start to be littered by sparc64 specific fixes. I can sympathize with these concerns. In fact, they are probably the biggest reasons that I hesitated adding the changes. > Having met those two conditions, I would be totally fine with putting > it in the book. Another alternative would be to maintain a branch > we're less supported (and possibly broken) arches were added. After > they proved mature enough, they could be added to the main book. Well, to be honest, that's kind of how I was viewing the jh branch. Although, if there are going to be more people working on these concepts and helping with experimental ideas, perhaps it could be better named. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
