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janrinok
on Wednesday April 30 2014, @03:43PM
from the problems-with-hardware-software-and-people dept.
from the problems-with-hardware-software-and-people dept.
Reported by LWN:
As of tonight, there is no more SPARC in testing. The main reasons were lack of porter commitments, problems with the toolchain and continued stability issues with our machines.
The fate of SPARC in unstable has not been decided yet. It might get removed unless people commit to working on it. Discussion about this should take place on #745938.
(Cross submitted on pipedot.org)
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Debian May Drop the SPARC Architecture
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Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 30 2014, @04:19PM
It's unfortunate that this happens to the only modern microprocessor with publicly available HDL sources http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/openspar c/opensparc-t2-page-1446157.html [oracle.com] Don't count OpenRISC, it's crap against even mediocre ARMs; and there are at least 2 companies left behind Sparc. In contrast to OpenPower you can also grab a 99$ one-time SPARC license fee and do whatever you want with it.
Luckily there's still OpenBSD and Gentoo left for old Sparc hardware.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday April 30 2014, @06:09PM
Luckily there's still OpenBSD and Gentoo left for old Sparc hardware.
Which is precisely what it says in TFA. You did read it, of course?
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday April 30 2014, @06:44PM
Read what TFA?
There appear to be links to bug report sites, and discussion boards. There is no TFA.
Instead we are expected to follow rambling threads on three different boards.
As an editor, I would have expected you to have insisted on an ACTUAL article and used these various board postings as backup. Instead we get three links to different discussion boards.
Further, it doesn't seem wise to start browbeating posters for not reading TFA that consists of 140+ comments on a bug reporting bulletin board.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by omoc on Wednesday April 30 2014, @07:32PM
There is no real "article" at this time, the announcement was published on the mailing list/bug tracker. I don't write articles, I just submit stuff that is interesting to me. Sorry for that, but this is just early and raw news/information.
(Score: 2) by michealpwalls on Wednesday April 30 2014, @07:57PM
Somebody posted this same commentary on the original announcement page but, however, they didn't mention any real implications.
Out of morbid curiosity, unless you're an engineer building circuits that have to integrate with your existing SPARC hardware, why would you even care about this?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 01 2014, @02:25PM
Luckily there's still OpenBSD and Gentoo left for old Sparc hardware.
Let the NetBSD guys handle this one. They have proven processes in place for handling old hardware. Debian is not focused on this area. Most of what you'd want to do with old hardware does not require linux.
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/sparc/hardware.html [netbsd.org]