On 2014-07-06 15:02:21 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Since we have a Sun Studio machine in the buildfarm, we shouldn't give > >>> up on SPARC completely, but maybe we should only add the cases for > >>> sparcv8+ and above? That at least has some chance of getting tested. > >> > >> That we have code for sparcv7 is ridiculous btw. Sparcv8 (not 8+/9) is > >> from 1992. v7/sun4c been dropped from solaris 8 if I see that correctly. > >> > >> I agree that v8 (in contrast to v8+ aka v9 in 32bit mode) support has to > >> go as well. I'd personally vote for backpatching a note to > >> installation.sgml saying that it's probably not working, and not do > >> anything else there. That means we also should replace the ldstub by cas > >> in the the gcc inline assembly - but we have buildfarm members for that, > >> so it's not too bad. > > > > If you want to do that, it's fine with me. What I would do is: > > > > - Back-patch the addition of the sparcv8+ stuff all the way. If > > anyone's running anything older, let them complain... > > - Remove the special case for MIPS without gcc intrinsics only in > > master, leaving the back-branches broken. If anyone cares, let them > > complain... > > - Nothing else. > > I've gone ahead and done the second of these things.
Thanks. > Andres, do you want to go take a stab at fixing the SPARC stuff? Will do, will probably take me till thursday to come up with the brain cycles. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
